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Famous Anger Quotes
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. - James Fallows *** An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. - Publilius Syrus *** An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes. - Cato the Elder *** Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. - Mahatma Gandhi *** Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. - George Eliot *** Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat. - Emily Dickinson *** Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. - Beverly Sills *** Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. - Pythagoras *** Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. - Robert Green Ingersoll *** Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him. - Louis L'Amour *** Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. - Horace *** Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one. - Lord Halifax *** Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. - Carl Sandburg *** Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words. - Dr. Joyce Brothers ***

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Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth. - Cato the Elder *** Anybody can become angry--that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way--that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. - Aristotle *** Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden *** For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. - Ralph Waldo Emerson *** Get mad, then get over it. - Colin Powell *** He who angers you conquers you. - Elizabeth Kenny *** Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. - Buddha *** How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. - Marcus Aurelius Antonius *** If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? - Sydney J. Harris *** It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. - Bertrand Russell *** Keep cool; anger is not an argument. - Daniel Webster *** Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. - Edward Abbey *** Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. - William Rounseville Alger *** Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. - Phyllis Diller *** No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. - George Jean Nathan *** Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling. - Gabrielle Reece ***

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One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. - William Butler Yeats *** Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. - Ambrose Bierce *** The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. - Walter S. Landor *** The greatest remedy for anger is delay. - Seneca *** The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. We injure our own cause in the opinion of the world when we too passionately defend it. - Charles Caleb Colton *** The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. - Bede Jarrett *** Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad. - Euripides *** To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. - Tryon Edwards *** Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin *** When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. - Thomas C. Haliburton *** When angry count four; when very angry, swear. - Mark Twain *** Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. - Epictetus *** Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately. - Matthew Henry ***

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Famous Art Quotes
'Art' is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game. - Octavio Paz *** A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous. - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe *** A great artist is always before his time or behind it. - George Moore *** A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. - Michelangelo *** A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. - Edmond de Goncourt *** A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know. - Diane Arbus *** A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light. - Henri Matisse *** A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. - Beverly Sills ***

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A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds. - Henry Moore *** A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde *** A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. - Gertrude Stein *** Above all keep your colours fresh! - Edouard Manet *** Abstract art? A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. - Al Capp *** All art is a revolt against man's fate. - André Malraux *** All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. - Federico Fellini *** All art is but imitation of nature. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca *** All autobiography is self-indulgent. - Daphne du Maurier *** All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. - Marc Chagall ***

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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life. - Oscar Wilde *** Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. - Leonardo da Vinci *** An art book is a museum without walls. - André Malraux *** An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. - Charles Horton Cooley *** An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. - George Santayana *** An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. - Joseph Conrad *** An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese *** An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. - Andy Warhol *** An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it. - Paul Valery ***

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An artist's sphere of influence is the world. - Carl Maria von Weber *** And really the purpose of art—for me, fiction—is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have. - Jerzy Kosinski *** Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. - Samuel Butler *** Any great work of art... revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air. - Leonard Bernstein *** Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. - Joseph Conrad *** Anything is art if the artist says it is. - Marcel Duchamp *** Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence . . . - Kenneth Tynan *** Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. - Andre Gide ***

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Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. - Gilbert K. Chesterton *** Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough. - Pauline Kael *** Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. - Frank Lloyd Wright *** Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - André Gide *** Art is a form of catharsis. - Dorothy Parker *** Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb. - Jean Arp *** Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. - Ralph Waldo Emerson *** Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical valuejudgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. - Marcel Proust *** Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed. - Kahlil Gibran ***

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Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world. - André Maurois *** Art is anything you can get away with. - Terence Trent D'Arby *** Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. - Cicero *** Art is either plagiarism or revolution. - Paul Gauguin *** Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. - John Updike *** Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa *** Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. - Henry Kissinger *** Art is not a thing; it is a way. - Elbert Hubbard *** Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting. - Elizabeth Bowen *** Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. - Kenneth Tynan ***

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Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word. - Eric Gill *** Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. - Amy Lowell *** Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't. - Theodore Roethke *** Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. - Oscar Wilde *** Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. - Twyla Tharp *** Art is the signature of civilizations. - Beverly Sills *** Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. - Theodore Dreiser *** Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. - Jean Cocteau *** Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Pablo Picasso ***

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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. - Gilbert K. Chesterton *** Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. - Guillaume Apollinaire *** Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. - Jules Feiffer *** Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. - Eugene Delacroix *** As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure. - John Dewey *** Bad artists always admire each other's work. - Oscar Wilde *** Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. - Jean Rostand *** Certainly no style seems at first glance to provide a richer field for the investigations of Herr Freud. (on Art Deco) - Osbert Lancaster *** Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson ***

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Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence. - Henri Matisse *** Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. - Salvador Dali *** Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. - C. S. Lewis *** Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. - Henry Ward Beecher *** Every artist writes his own autobiography. - Henry Ellis *** Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. - Pablo Picasso *** Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. - Oscar Wilde *** Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. - Louis Kahn *** Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. - Charles Baudelaire ***

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Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting. - E. C. Stedman *** Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. - John Ruskin *** Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh. - Allen Ginsberg *** Give me a museum and I'll fill it. - Pablo Picasso *** Good art is in the wallet of the beholder. - Kathy Lette *** Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. - George Jean Nathan *** Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within. - Edith Hamilton *** Great art picks up where nature ends. - Marc Chagall *** How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it? - Nina Simone ***

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I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more. - Marc Chagall *** I always said God was against art and I still believe it. - Edward Elgar *** I am an artist... I am here to live out loud. - Emile Zola *** I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with. - Werner Herzog *** I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot. - Steve Martin *** I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. - Auguste Rodin *** I cry out for order and find it only in art. - Helen Hayes *** I didn't have any interest in traditional art. - Cindy Sherman *** I dislike a picture that is too suave or too skilfully done. But, contrariwise, I also dislike a picture that looks too inept or blundering. - Robert Motherwell ***

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I don't know what to do with my arms. It just makes me feel weird and I feel like people are looking at me and that makes me nervous. - Tyra Banks *** I don't need the money, dear. I work for art. - Maria Callas *** I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. - Henri Matisse *** I don't very much enjoy looking at paintings in general. I know too much about them. I take them apart. - Georgia O'Keeffe *** I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way things I had no words for. - Georgia O'Keeffe *** I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me. - Henri Matisse *** I have been no more than a medium, as it were. - Henri Matisse *** I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside. - Louise Nevelson *** I invent nothing, I rediscover. - Auguste Rodin ***

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I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me. - Roy Lichtenstein *** I paint with shapes. - Alexander Calder *** I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. - Vincent Van Gogh *** I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. - Michelangelo *** I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it. - Miguel de Cervantes *** I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe. - Vince Vaughn *** I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art. - Mary Baker Eddy *** I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. - Andy Warhol *** I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black. - Pierre Auguste Renoir ***

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I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. - Barbra Streisand *** If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. - John F. Kennedy *** If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint. - Mrs. Pablo Picasso *** If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed. - David Hockney *** If you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it . . . because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them. - William Morris *** If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. - Edward Hopper *** If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. - Vincent Van Gogh *** If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today. - Willem de Kooning ***

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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul. - Henri Matisse *** In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire. - Ralph Waldo Emerson *** In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. - Paul Gauguin *** In Chicago, we may not think the Picasso presiding over the Richard J. Daley Center plaza is art, but we know it's a big Picasso and it's the city's Picasso, and when the Cubs made the play-offs, the sculpture wore a baseball cap just like everything else. - Pat Colander *** In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture. - Henry Moore *** Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight. - Auguste Rodin *** It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. - Henry Moore *** It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. - Henri Matisse ***

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It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it. - Georgia O'Keeffe *** Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler *** Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars. - Mark Rothko *** Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling. - Gilbert K. Chesterton *** Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. - John Ciardi *** My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. - Edward Hopper *** My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can. Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic. - Keith Haring *** My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly. - Raoul Dufy ***

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My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. - Pablo Picasso *** Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow *** Never judge a work of art by its defects. - Washington Allston *** No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation. - Frank Norris *** No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it facinating. - Harold Rosenberg *** No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. - Oscar Wilde *** No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit. - Ansel Adams *** No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell. - Antonin Artaud ***

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Nothing is so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. - George Santayana *** Of all lies, art is the least untrue. - Gustave Flaubert *** One eye sees, the other feels. - Paul Klee *** One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. - Charles Horton Cooley *** Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. - Novalis *** Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. - Salvador Dali *** Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. - Edgar Degas *** Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. - Pablo Picasso *** Painting is saying 'Ta' to God. - Stanley Spencer *** Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. - Plutarch ***

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Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God. - Rembrandt *** Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. - Ambrose Bierce *** People who see a drawing in the "New Yorker" will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they see it in a museum, they think it is artistic; and if they find it in a fortune cookie they think it is a prediction. - Saul Steinberg *** Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson *** Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them. - William Wordsworth *** Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. - Salvador Dali *** Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. - Franz Werfel *** Rules and models destroy genius and art. - William Hazlitt *** Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ***

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So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge. - Alexander Eliot *** Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso *** Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished. - Georgia O'Keeffe *** Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned. - William Butler Yeats *** Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light. - Franz Liszt *** Take me! I am the hallucinogenic! - Salvador Dali *** The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. - Aristotle *** The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. - William Faulkner ***

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The art of a people is a true mirror of their minds. - Jawaharlal Nehru *** The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. - Novalis *** The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. - Pablo Picasso *** The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist. - Eric Gill *** The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola *** The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. - Henry Mille *** The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. - Agnes De Mille *** The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above. - Cyril Connolly *** The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. - Eugene Delacroix ***

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The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. - Paul Strand *** The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. - Hendrik Willem Van Loon *** The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art. - Kenneth Tynan *** The course of Nature is the art of God. - Edward Young *** The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. - Max Eastman *** The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. - Marc Chagall *** The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure. - Dale Carnegie *** The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude. - Friedrich Nietzsche ***

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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public. - Paul Gauguin *** The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal. - Lionel Trilling *** The landscapist lives in silence. - Henri Rousseau *** The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. - David Hockney *** The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract. - Ellen Key *** The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation. - Hilton Kramer *** The most profound things are inexpressible. - Jenny Holzer *** The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. - Robert Henri *** The only difference between me and the Surrealists is that I am a Surrealist. - Salvador Dal ‫ي‬ ***

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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. - Pablo Picasso *** The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. - Frank Lloyd Wright *** The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. - Piet Mondrian *** The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso *** The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. - John Updike *** The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited. - William Saroyan *** The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination. - Elbert Hubbard *** The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented. - Raoul Dufy *** The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. - Michelangelo ***

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The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca *** The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe *** There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman. - Emile Zola *** There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. - Paul Gauguin *** There is no such thing as modern art. There is art--and there is advertising. - Albert Sterner *** There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. - Ansel Adams *** There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture. (on Manet's "Absinthe Drinker") - Thomas Couture *** This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish. - Judith Thurman ***

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Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. - Henri Matisse *** To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect. - Alexander Calder *** To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. - E. M. Forster *** To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity. - Thomas A. Edison *** To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. - Robert Schumann *** Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. - Michelangelo *** True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. - Albert Einstein *** Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values. - T. S. Eliot ***

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Under a blazing mid-afternoon summer sky, we see the Seine flooded with sunshine . . . people are strolling, others are sitting or stretched out lazily on the bluish grass. - Georges-Pierre Seurat *** Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. - Fran Lebowitz *** We all know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. - Pablo Picasso *** We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in the modern style. (to Pablo Picasso) - Henri Rousseau *** We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche *** We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda, it is a form of truth. - John F. Kennedy *** What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming. - Edgar Degas *** What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. - John Updike *** What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. - Augustus Saint-Gaudens ***

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What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. - Henri Matisse *** What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. - Edward Hopper *** What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough. - Eugene Delacroix *** What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. - W. H. Auden *** What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself--life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. - Willa Cather *** When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. - Marc Chagall *** When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. - Paul Cezanne *** While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. - Odilon Redon ***

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Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked anyone out. But last year... my first opening night at the Met - I looked out and heard all that cheering... for me... And I loved it. - Benita Valente *** Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. - George Bernard Shaw *** Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. - Albert Camus *** Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. - E. M. Forster *** You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you. - Edward Steichen *** You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. - Henri Matisse ***

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Famous Baseball Quotes
A baseball bat is a wondrous weapon. - Ty Cobb *** Abbott: Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. Costello: That's what I want to find out. - Lou Costello *** After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases. - Mickey Mantle *** All I want is for my case to be heard before an impractical decision-maker. - Pete Rose *** All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon. - Mickey Mantle *** As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due. - Mickey Mantle *** As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it. - Leo Durocher ***

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Aw, how could he (Jorge Orta) lose the ball in the sun, he's from Mexico. - Harry Caray *** Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. - Peter Ueberroth *** Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game. - Edward Abbey *** Baseball is like church. Many attend; few understand. - Leo Durocher *** Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal. - George Will *** But god-damn, to think you're a .300 hitter and end up at .237 in your last season, then find yourself looking at a lifetime .298 average - it made me want to cry. - Mickey Mantle *** Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death. - Leo Durocher *** By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it. - Ted Williams *** Candlestick was built on the water. It should have been built under it." - Roger Maris ***

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Fans, don't fail to miss tomorrow's game. - Dizzy Dean *** For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings. - Earl Wilson *** Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you. - Leo Durocher *** God watches over drunks and third baseman. - Leo Durocher *** Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century. - Mickey Mantle *** Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases. - John W. Raper *** Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part. - Mickey Mantle *** How you play the game is for college ball. When you're playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters. - Leo Durocher *** I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love. - Mickey Mantle ***

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I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them? - Leo Durocher *** I come to win. - Leo Durocher *** I don't care who you are, you hear those boos. - Mickey Mantle *** I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?' - Mickey Mantle *** I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules. - Leo Durocher *** I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes. - Leo Durocher *** I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw. - Willie Mays *** I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. - Gerald Early *** I would always sing it (Take Me Out To The Ball Game), because I think it's the only song I knew the words to! - Harry Caray ***

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I'd rather hit than have sex. - Reggie Jackson *** I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do. - Mickey Mantle *** I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more. - Harry Caray *** If he raced his pregnant wife he'd finish third. (on catcher Mide Scioscia) - Tommy Lasorda *** If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, "Sorry, Mom," but nobody beats me. - Leo Durocher *** If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired. - Leo Durocher *** In order to become a big-league manager you have to be in the right place at the right time. That's rule number one. - Leo Durocher *** In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you. - Leo Durocher *** It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. - A. Bartlett Giamatti

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*** It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. - Hank Aaron *** It was all I lived for, to play baseball. - Mickey Mantle *** It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll. - Harry Caray *** It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life. - Mickey Mantle *** My dad taught me to switch-hit. He and my grandfather, who was left-handed, pitched to me everyday after school in the back yard. I batted lefty against my dad and righty against my granddad. - Mickey Mantle *** Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop. - Leo Durocher *** Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. - Bud Abbott *** Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I`ll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will. - Harry Caray ***

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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way. - A. Bartlett Giamatti *** Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. - H. L. Mencken *** People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.00. - Pete Incaviglia *** Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was. - Mickey Mantle *** Scholars concede but cannot explain the amazing chemistry of Cub fans' loyalty. But their unique steadfastness through thin and thin has something to do with the team's Franciscan simplicity. - George Will *** Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill. - Leo Durocher *** Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.' - Mickey Mantle *** Sometimes I sit in my den at home and read stories about myself. Kids used to save whole scrapbooks on me. They get tired of them and mail them to me. I'll go in there and read them, and you know what? They might as well be about Musial and DiMaggio, it's like reading about somebody else. - Mickey Mantle ***

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Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been. - Mickey Mantle *** The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement. - A. Bartlett Giamatti *** The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. - Casey Stengel *** The kid doesn't chew tobacco, smoke, drink, curse, or chase broads. I don't see how he can possibly make it. - Richie Ashburn *** The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know. - Mickey Mantle *** The triple is the most exciting play in baseball...Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them. - Hank Aaron *** There are only five things you can do in baseball - run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power. - Leo Durocher *** There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball. - A. Bartlett Giamatti ***

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They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English. - Harry Caray *** To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer. - Mickey Mantle *** Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball. - Mickey Mantle *** Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball. - Mickey Mantle *** Well, that was a cliff-dweller. - Wes Westrum *** What are we out at the park for, except to win? - Leo Durocher *** When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered. - Mickey Mantle *** Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres! - Jerry Coleman *** You argue with the umpire because there is nothing else you can do about it. - Leo Durocher ***

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You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth. - Mickey Mantle *** You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain. - Leo Durocher *** You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games. - Harry Caray ***

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Famous Basketball Quotes
Any time Detroit scores more than a hundred points and holds the other team below a hundred points, they almost always win. - Doug Collins *** Ball handling and dribbling are my strongest weaknesses. - David Thompson *** Shaq is not the man. He's the man because the NBA wants him to be the man, but before you can be the man, you've got to be the man. - Dennis Rodman *** They said playing basketball would kill me. Well, not playing basketball was killing me. - Magic Johnson ***

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Famous Birthday Quotes
After 30, a body has a mind of its own. - Bette Midler *** Everything I know I learned after I was thirty. - Georges Clemenceau *** Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang, 'Happy Birthday' - Steven Wright *** Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. - Mary Schmich *** The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet. - Robert Orben *** There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents ... and only one for birthday presents, you know. - Lewis Carroll *** Thirty five is a very attractive age; London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years. - Oscar Wilde *** Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty. - Robert Frost ***

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Famous Business Quotes
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. - Henry Ford *** A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. - Stephen Covey *** A man should never neglect his family for business. - Walt Disney *** A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused. - Dale Dauten *** A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk. - Harry F. Banks *** After all, the chief business of the American people is business. - Calvin Coolidge *** All lasting business is built on friendship. - Alfred A. Montapert *** Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. - Tom Peters *** As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. - John Greenleaf Whittier ***

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Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. - Dave Barry *** Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. - Thomas Carlyle *** Business is a combination of war and sport. - Andre Maurois *** Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. - Henry R. Luce *** Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money. - Peter F. Drucker *** Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money. - Alexandre Dumas *** By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. - Robert Frost *** Cannibals prefer those who have no spines. - Stanislaw Lem *** Carpe per diem - seize the check. - Robin Williams *** Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity. - Karl Marx

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*** Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa. - T. Boone Pickens *** Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. - Ambrose Bierce *** Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile. - Gary Ryan Blair *** Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it. - Will Rogers *** Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it. - Colin Powell *** Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. - Stephen Covey *** Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible. - Andy Warhol *** Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million. - Ted Turner ***

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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. - Henry Ward Beecher *** Few great men could pass personal. - Paul Goodman *** For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it. - Charles A. Jaffe *** Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond. - Jim Cramer *** Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country. - Norman Cousins *** Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. - Theodore Isaac Rubin *** He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. - Edgar R. Fiedler *** Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. - Thomas A. Edison ***

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Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it. - Andrew Carnegie *** How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden? (last words) - P. T. Barnum *** I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs. - David Ogilvy *** I buy when other people are selling. - J. Paul Getty *** I cannot afford to waste my time making money. - Louis Agassiz *** I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations. - Ralph Nader *** I don’t want yes-men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs. - Samuel Goldwyn *** I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. - John Cleese *** I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine. - Barry Goldwater ***

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I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly. - Steven Wright *** I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. - Henry David Thoreau *** I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own. - Les Dawson *** I want to put a ding in the universe. - Steve Jobs *** I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. - Lord Acton *** I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. - Steve Martin *** If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn’t be in this business. - Samuel Goldwyn *** If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca *** If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. - Irvin S. Cobb ***

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If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid. - Thomas J. Watson *** If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business. - Joey Adams *** If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable. - Will Rogers *** If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business. - B. C. Forbes *** If you have to forecast, forecast often. - Edgar R. Fiedler *** If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet. - Theodore White *** If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem. - J. Paul Getty *** In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing. - William Wordsworth *** In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. - Harold S. Geneen ***

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Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results. - Scott Adams *** Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network. - Mitchell Kapor *** It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. - Tom Brokaw *** It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts. - Will Rogers *** It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits. - Charles A. Jaffe *** Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. - Thomas A. Edison *** Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlive its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning. - Gary Ryan Blair *** Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top. - Robert Browning *** Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it. - Lord Acton ***

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Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net. - Meg Whitman *** Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00—2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00. (Invoice from Charles Steinmetz) - Charles Steinmetz *** Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope. - William Penn *** Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that - Bill Gates *** My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job. - Ted Turner *** Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market. - E. F. Schumacher *** No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution. - Niccolo Machiavelli *** No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time—but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming. - Charles Erwin Wilson ***

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Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do. - Richard Nelson Bolles *** Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. - Isaac Asimov *** Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it, and that's true anywhere in the world. - Andrew Young *** One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. - A. C. Benson *** Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products. - Scott McNealy *** Our favourite holding period is forever. - Warren Buffett *** Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them. - W. Edwards Deming *** Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. - Don Marquis ***

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Real riches are the riches possessed inside. - B. C. Forbes *** Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. - Frank Lloyd Wright *** Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart. - Scott Adams *** So little done, so much to do. - Cecil Rhodes *** Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can. - Paul Tournier *** Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each. - Charles A. Jaffe *** Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities. - Walter Scott *** Take care of those who work for you and you'll float to greatness on their achievements. - H. S. M. Burns *** The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. - Rupert Murdoch ***

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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. - Ambrose Bierce *** The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. - Edgar R. Fiedler *** The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark. - Jack Anderson *** The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. - Henry Ford *** The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. - Roy L. Smith *** The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell. - Confucius *** The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. - Benjamin Jowett *** The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. - Josh Billings *** The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. - Thomas Carlyle ***

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The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork. - Igor Sikorsky *** The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living. - Owen Young *** There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. - Colin Powell *** There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second. - Jeff Bezos *** There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. - Peter F. Drucker *** There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! - Coco Chanel *** There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody. - Adlai E. Stevenson *** There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. - David Letterman ***

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there. - Colonel Sanders *** To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them. - Aristotle Onassis *** To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. - Alvin Toffler *** Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics. - Mason Cooley *** We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. - Steve Ballmer *** We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. - Alexis de Tocqueville *** Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do. - Charles A. Jaffe *** What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful. - Blaine Lee ***

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What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' - Steve Ballmer *** What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life. - Paul A. Volcker *** When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder. - James H. Boren *** Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops. - Thomas J. Watson *** Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. - William A. Ward *** You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing. - Steve Ross *** You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in ONE SENTENCE....what it does....it's illegal. - Lewis Black ***

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Famous Change Quotes
A leopard never changes his stripes. - Al Gore *** Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. - Bruce Barton *** All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. - Ellen Glasgow *** All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. - Anatole France *** All movements go too far. - Bertrand Russell *** Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - Arnold Bennett *** Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. - Bertolt Brecht *** Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. - Arthur Schopenhauer *** Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. - Robert C. Gallagher ***

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Change is such hard work. - Billy Crystal *** Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick *** He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. - Francis Bacon *** He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. - Harold Wilson *** If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. - Carl G. Jung *** If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. - Gail Sheehy *** If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. - Maya Angelou *** If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. - Lao Tzu *** If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change. - John A. Simone, Sr. ***

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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. - Benjamin Disraeli *** In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival. - Andrew Young *** It is not strange... to mistake change for progress. - Millard Fillmore *** It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. - Mignon McLaughlin *** Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. - Irene Peter *** Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe *** Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on that own bootstraps. - Peter Abrahams *** Most women set out to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him. - Marlene Dietrich *** No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. - George Eliot ***

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None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives. - Kathleen Norris *** Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. - James A. Baldwin *** Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. - Confucius *** The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. - Henry Miller *** The more revolutions occur, the less things change. - Georgie Anne Geyer *** The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he's a baby. (quoted in The Joys of Having a Child, 1993) - Natalie Wood *** The world has gone through tremendous change recently; both nationally and internationally. - John Major *** The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. - Charles Kettering ***

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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 *** They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. - Confucius *** Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. - Francis Bacon *** Things do not change; we change. - Henry David Thoreau *** We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. - Harrison Ford *** 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 live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. - R. D. Laing *** When you are through changing, you are through. - Bruce Barton *** When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. - Stanislaw Lec ***

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Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. - Shunryu Suzuki *** Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. - Frank Herbert *** You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mohandas Gandhi ***

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Famous Christian Quotes
A cult is a religion with no political power. - Tom Wolfe *** A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride. - C. S. Lewis *** Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men. - Novalis *** Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity. - John Lennon *** Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important. - C. S. Lewis *** Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. - Billy Sunday *** Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. - Garrison Keillor ***

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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. - C. S. Lewis *** I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop. - James Thomson *** I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they're cramming for their final exam. - George Carlin *** If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said 'No.' - Stevie Smith *** If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. - C. S. Lewis *** If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently. - Andrew Young *** In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had given away all he had, like a man passing a ball in a game. - Margery Allingham *** It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein ***

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Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it. - Charles Caleb Colton *** More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure. - Roy L. Smith *** My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tell you. - Benjamin Jowett *** No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man. - Israel Zangwill *** Religion is induced insanity. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair *** The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried. - Gilbert K. Chesterton *** The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that. - Jimmy Swaggart *** The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. - Edward Abbey *** The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. - Sir Richard Francis Burton ***

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We don't call a man mad who believes that he eats God, but we do the one who says he is Jesus Christ - Claude Adrien Helvetius *** When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. `What do you mean?' the media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.' - Pat Robertson *** With soap, baptism is a good thing. - Robert Ingersoll *** Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why. - Eric Gill ***

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Famous Computer Quotes
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage. - Robert McNamara *** Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. - Laws of Computer Programming, X *** All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. - Isaac Asimov *** Any given program costs more and takes longer. - Laws of Computer Programming, II *** Any given program, when running, is obsolete. - Laws of Computer Programming, I *** Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug. - Laws of Computer Programming, VIII *** Any program will expand to fill available memory. - Laws of Computer Programming, V *** Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. - Tim Berners-Lee ***

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As long as they are going to steal it [software], we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade. - Speaking of Chinese computer users - Bill Gates *** Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer. - Rita Mae Brown *** Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. - Joseph Campbell *** Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding. - Louis Gerstner *** Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Picasso *** Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. - Andy Rooney *** Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. - Nicholas Negroponte *** Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. - Doug Larson *** I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. - Isaac Asimov ***

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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson *** If a computer cable has one end, then it has another. - Lyall's Conjecture *** If a program is useful, it will have to be changed. - Laws of Computer Programming, III *** If a program is useless, it will have to be documented. - Laws of Computer Programming, IV *** If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. - Weinberg's Second Law *** If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not? - Bill Gates *** If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. - Anonymous *** In comparison with the industrial age, the information era is at the steam engine stage. By the time information systems reach jet-plane status, we will focus on utility over fads, triple our productivity, use our computers as naturally and easily as we now use our cars... - Michael L. Dertouzos ***

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Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating. - Bill Gates *** Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It’s a good thing we have museums to document that - Bill Gates *** Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. - Steve Wozniak *** No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either. - Marvin Minsky *** Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. - Edward Shepherd Mead *** Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it. - Laws of Computer Programming, VII *** Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- (Clarke's 69th Law, The Odyssey File, 1984) - Arthur C. Clarke *** Thank you for your e-mail. This Internet of yours is a wonderful invention. -- (email to Al Gore, mocking his famous Internet invention claim, quoted in Newsweek, Mar 2000) - George W. Bush ***

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That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything and they don't drink all your beer. - Paul Leary *** The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system. - Bill Gates *** The computer is a moron. - Peter Drucker *** The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. - Sydney Harris *** The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output. - Laws of Computer Programming, VI *** There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. - Bill Gates *** There's always one more bug. - Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology *** There's nobody getting rich [by] writing software. - Bill Gates *** They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction. - Janet Reno ***

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They've finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer. - Milton Berle *** Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. - Jean Rostand *** To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so. - Robert Orben *** To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. - Paul Ehrlich *** To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge. - Adlai Stevenson *** Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. - Clifford Stoll *** Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited. - Laws of Computer Programming, IX *** What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers? - Walter F. Mondale ***

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Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my hard disk? - Steven Wright *** Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster? - Walter Mossberg ***

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Famous Death Quotes
'Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you? - Wyndham Lewis *** A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. - Aldous Huxley *** A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. - Thomas Mann *** A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death which was third on the list. So, you're telling me that at a funeral, most people would rather be the guy in the coffin than have to stand up and give a eulogy. - Jerry Seinfield *** A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. - Alexander The Great *** According to the L.A. Times, Attorney General John Ashcroft wants to take "a harder stance" on the death penalty. What's a harder stance on the death penalty? We're already killing the guy? How do you take a harder stance on the death penalty? What, are you going to tickle him first? Give him itching powder? Put a thumbtack on the electric chair. - Jay Leno *** Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. - Ayn Rand ***

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After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. - Cato the Elder *** Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. - Yogi Berra *** Arthur hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realised there was a contradiction there and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. - Douglas Adams *** But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end. - James Russell Lowell *** Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin *** Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death. - Pier Paolo Pasolini *** Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. - W. Somerset Maugham *** Death is just life's next big adventure. - J. K. Rowling ***

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Death solves all problems - no man, no problem. - Joseph Stalin *** Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. - Katherine Hepburn *** Death, the one appointment we all must keep, and for which no time is set. - Earl Derr Biggers *** Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. (last words) - John Barrymore *** Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult. - Edmund Gwenn *** Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details. - Andy Warhol *** Dying of tuberculosis: The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive. - Frederic Chopin *** Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. - Martin Heidegger *** Everybody has got to die but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. - William Saroyan ***

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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning. - John Henry Cardinal Newman *** For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. - Johnny Carson *** Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. - Robert Falcon Scott *** Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. - C. S. Lewis *** He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro *** He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously. - Oliver Goldsmith *** Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. - Redd Foxx *** Hovering between wife and death. (on his deathbed, asked how he was) - James Montgomery *** I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill ***

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I can't die. It would ruin my image. - Jack LaLanne *** I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and in tears. - Francesco Petrarch *** I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now— I'm booked. I can't afford to die— I'd lose too much money. - George Burns *** I don't feel good. (last words) - Luther Burbank *** I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. - Woody Allen *** I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister. - Jessica Mitford *** I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming *** I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. (The Iliad) - Homer *** I want to die like my father, peacefully in his sleep, not screaming and terrified, like his passengers. - Bob Monkhouse ***

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I'll never die. I'll just explode, right there before your eyes, onstage. - Dick Dale *** I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon *** I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. - Woody Allen *** If one permits an infidel to continue in his role as a corrupter of the earth, his moral suffering will be all the worse. If one kills the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him. - Ruhollah Khomeini *** If this is dying, then I don't think much of it. - Lytton Strachey *** If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button. - Sam Levenson *** In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world. - Federico Garcia Lorca *** In the long run we are all dead. - John Maynard Keynes *** It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals. (The Iliad) - Homer ***

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It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter." There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter. - C. S. Lewis *** It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. - Woody Allen *** It proves what they always say: give the public what they want and they'll come out for it. (on Harry Cohn's funeral) - Red Skelton *** Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain *** Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. - Lao Tzu *** Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov *** Madam, Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room He's the ruffian on the stair. - William Henley *** My father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular. - Goodman Ace *** No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. - Euripides ***

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humaneness. - Hermann Broch *** On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. - Woody Allen *** Only the young die good. - Cynic's Calendar *** Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. - Edward Young *** Richard doesn't really like me to kill bugs, but sometimes I can't help it. - Cindy Crawford *** The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late. - Daniel DeFoe *** The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom. - Montgomery Clift *** The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. - Joseph Stalin *** The report of my death was an exaggeration. (New York Journal, June 1897) - Mark Twain ***

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There are worst things than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know exactly what I mean. (Love and death, 1975) - Woody Allen *** There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana *** They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days. - Garrison Keillor *** This is no time for making new enemies. (when asked on his deathbed to renounce Satan) - Voltaire *** This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey! - Redd Foxx *** To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. (The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895) - Oscar Wilde *** To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? - W. H. Auden *** Was Uncle Oscar's death very untimely, you ask? Well, it was near lunch. - Archie Bunker - Carroll O'Connor *** We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. - Nathaniel Hawthorne ***

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When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever. - Harry Caray *** When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill *** Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. - Ernesto Che Guevara *** You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that. - Robert Lansing ***

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Famous Dream Quotes
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. - Oscar Wilde *** Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true! - Edwin Markham *** All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. - Thomas E. Lawrence *** All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney *** Dream in a pragmatic way. - Aldous Huxley *** Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. - Edgar Cayce *** Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. - Anatole France *** He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the matress half gone. - Fred Allen ***

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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. - Douglas Adams *** Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. - Langston Hughes *** I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. - M. C. Escher *** I dream for a living. - Steven Spielberg *** I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. - Jonas Salk *** I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Patrick Henry *** I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. - Steven Wright *** It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. - Benjamin E. Mays *** Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone. - Tommy Cooper ***

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Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on that own bootstraps. - Peter Abrahams *** My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed—my dearest pleasure when free. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley *** Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. - Tupac Shakur *** Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe *** We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming. - Novalis ***

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Famous Education Quotes
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation. - Cicero *** America is the best half-educated country in the world. - Nicholas Murray Butler *** An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. - Anatole France *** As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider. - E. M. Forster *** Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. - Epictetus *** Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty per cent of useful work of the world. - Toni Morrison *** College isn't the place to go for ideas. - Helen Keller ***

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Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. - Walt Disney *** Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. - Barbara Jordan *** Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. - Arthur Wellesley *** Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism. - David Suzuki *** Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots. - Karl Kraus *** Education is a danger. . . . At best an education which produces useful coolies for us is admissible. Every educated person is a future enemy. - Martin Bormann *** Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant *** Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. - Norman Douglas *** Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed. - Joseph Stalin ***

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Education is the best provision for the journey to old age. - Aristotle *** Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel. - Socrates *** Education is the mother of leadership. - Wendell Willkie *** Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. - B. F. Skinner *** Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. - Pete Seeger *** Education made us what we are. - Claude Adrien Helvetius *** Education will not (take the place of persistance); the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. - Calvin Coolidge *** Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. - C. S. Lewis *** Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men—the balance-wheel of the social machinery. - Horace Mann ***

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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. - John Maynard Keynes *** Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. - Maria Montessori *** He did not suffer from a poor education; he suffered from the belief that he had a poor education. (on Lyndon Johnson) - George Ball *** I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. - Woody Allen *** I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen. - Steven Wright *** I trust the time is coming, when the occupation of an instructor to children will be deemed the most honorable of human employment. - Angelina Grimke *** If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals. - Susan B. Anthony *** If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? - Maria Montessori ***

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If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation. - Brigham Young *** If this boy passes the examinations he will be admitted; and if the white students choose to withdraw, all the income of the college will be devoted to his education. (on admitting the first black student to Harvard) - Edward Everett *** If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years. - Alfred Kazin *** If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. - Derek Bok *** It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity escape you to treasure up knowledge. - Sam Houston *** It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. - Agnes Repplier *** It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. - Aristotle *** It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle ***

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My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes. - Robert Millikan *** Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. - Maria Montessori *** Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. - Henry Adams *** Nothing should be overlooked in fighting for better education. Be persistent and ornery: this will be good for the lethargic educational establishment and will aid the whole cause of public education. - Roy Wilkins *** Rare is the child, I suspect, who wants to grow up to be an economist, or a professor. I grew up in a university town and went to a university-run high school, where most of my friends were faculty kids. I was so unfailing an A student that it was boring even to me. - James Tobin *** The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. - Sam Houston *** The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. - John Updike *** The highest result of education is tolerance. - Helen Keller ***

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The number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes. - Denis Diderot *** The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. - Aristotle *** The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity. - Maria Montessori *** The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. - C. S. Lewis *** Those who make a distinction between education and entertainment don't know the first thing about either. - Marshall McLuhan *** We should be trying to make education less expensive, not more. - Bob Inglis ***

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Famous Experience Quotes
A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another. - Paul Bourget *** Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. - Pete Seeger *** Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it. - Jimmy Connors *** Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. - Aldous Huxley *** Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. - Oscar Wilde *** Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. - Donald Trump *** Experience teaches only the teachable. - Aldous Huxley *** Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. - C. S. Lewis ***

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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. - Aldous Huxley *** Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams *** I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better. - Harry Caray *** Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience. - Jonas Salk *** Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. - Hosea Ballou *** We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience. - George Washington *** You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing. - Arnold Bax ***

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Famous Faith Quotes
A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground. - Saint Thomas Aquinas *** All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. - James Freeman Clarke *** Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand. - Thomas Aquinas *** Faith sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. - Anonymous *** Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. - E. M. Forster *** Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. - J. R. R. Tolkien. *** I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. - Pearl S. Buck *** I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place. - Harriet Beecher Stowe ***

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It ain't supposed to make sense; it's faith. Faith is something that you believe that nobody in his right mind would believe. - Archie Bunker - Carroll O'Connor *** It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life. - Jean Ingelow *** My faith always has been and always will be important to me. - Aretha Franklin *** The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith. - James Anthony Froude *** To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. - Thomas Aquinas *** To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. - Euripides ***

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Famous Football Quotes
A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall. - Frank Leahy *** Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. - Erma Bombeck *** Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. - Archibald MacLeish *** Everybody said how stoic I was on the sidelines, that I didn't show any emotion. You have to understand, I was never on the play the fans were seeing. I was on the next play, or two or three plays after that. - Tom Landry *** Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness. - George Will *** Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. - George Will *** Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are-retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on. - Edward Abbey ***

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I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field. - Walter Payton *** I've found that prayers work best when you have big players. - Knute Rockne *** If there's a pileup, they'll have to give some of the players artificial insemination. (announcing for the AFL all-star game on a flooded field) - Curt Gowdy *** If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. - Vince Lombardi *** The NFL, like life, is full of idiots. - Randy Cross *** The pride and presence of a professional football team is far more important than 30 libraries. - Art Modell ***

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Famous Forgiving Quotes
A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed. - Alexander Chase *** Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde *** As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. - Gerald R. Ford *** As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind. - Isabelle Holland *** For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. - Adlai E. Stevenson *** Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature! - George Bernard Shaw *** Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. - Ausonius *** Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. - Euripides *** Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. - William A. Ward ***

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Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. - Dag Hammarskjold *** Forgiveness is the economy of the heart . . . Forgiveness saves expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits. - Hannah More *** Forgiveness is the final form of love. - Reinhold Niebuhr *** Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it. - Mark Twain *** Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. - George MacDonald *** Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. - Hannah Arendt *** Forgiveness means letting go of the past. - Gerald Jampolsky *** God will forgive me. It's his job. - Heinrich Heine *** He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. - Thomas Fuller ***

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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. - Henry Ward Beecher *** I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget. - Chaim Herzog *** I have to forgive because I'm going to be a bitter bitch if I don't. - LeAnn Rimes *** If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. - Friedrich Nietzsche *** It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake *** It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - John Dryden *** It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. - Anonymous *** It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. - Jessamyn West *** It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. - Lewis B. Smedes ***

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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. - Olin Miller *** It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them. - Lana Turner *** Life is an adventure in forgiveness. - Norman Cousins *** Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive. - William Congreve *** More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion. - Alexander Chase *** Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. *** Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. - Kin Hubbard *** Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. - Marlene Dietrich *** One forgives to the degree that one loves. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld ***

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Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget. - Maria Edgeworth *** Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. - Garrison Keillor *** The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. - William Blake *** The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. - Elbert Hubbard *** The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. - Alexander Chase *** The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mohandas Gandhi *** There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. - Josh Billings *** To err is human; to forgive, divine. - Alexander Pope *** To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. - Quentin Crisp *** To understand is to forgive, even oneself. - Alexander Chase ***

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When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government. - Alexander Chase *** When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. - Emo Philips *** When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it. - Lewis B. Smedes *** When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future. - Bernard Meltzer *** You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. - Lewis B. Smedes ***

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Famous Friendship Quotes
A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance. - Benjamin Franklin *** A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. - James Boswell *** A friend is a gift you give yourself. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. - George Ade *** A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller *** A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. - Arthur Brisbane *** A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - Walter Winchell *** Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly. - Publilius Syrus ***

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Oscar Wilde *** Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. - Seneca *** Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend. - Albert Camus *** Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. - C. S. Lewis *** Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. - Pythagoras *** Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. - Thomas Jones *** Friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own. - William Lamb Melbourne *** Friends show their love in times of trouble. - Euripides ***

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Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, "What! You too? I thought I was the only one!" - C. S. Lewis *** Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. - Thomas Aquinas *** Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. - Thomas Aquinas *** Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C. S. Lewis *** Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt *** Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. - Socrates *** I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch *** I got a lotta best friends. Some o' them I don't even hardly know! - Archie Bunker - Carroll O'Connor *** I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. - Euripides ***

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I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. - Virginia Woolf *** I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends—they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights! - Warren G. Harding *** I want to be your friend, for ever and ever without break of decay. When the hills are all flat and the rivers are all dry, When it lightens and thunders in winter, when it rains and snows in summer, when Heaven and Earth mingle - not till then will I part from you. - Arthur Waley *** I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too. - Euripides *** If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. - Abraham Lincoln *** In misfortune, which friend remains a friend? - Euripides *** In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. *** Life becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or enemies. - Christina of Sweden *** Life has no blessing like a prudent friend. - Euripides ***

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Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor *** Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. - Aristotle *** Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. - Spike Milligan *** Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. - Spike Milligan *** Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you. - Madame de Tencin *** Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends? - Robert Louis Stevenson *** One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. - Henry Adams *** One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. - Euripides *** Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. - Aristotle *** Prosperity is full of friends. - Euripides ***

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Real friends are those who, when you feel you've made a fool of yourself, don't feel you've done a permanent job. - Erwin T. Randall *** So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** The best time to make friends is before you need them. - Ethel Barrymore *** The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. - Gilbert K. Chesterton *** The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, Nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when they discover that someone else believes in them and is willing to trust them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson *** The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life. - Edward Everett Hale *** There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer. - Francis Bacon *** To the world you might be one person; but to one person you might be the world. - Anonymous *** Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget. - G. Randolf ***

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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends. - P.D. James *** We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour. - Gilbert K. Chesterton *** What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? - Anais Nin *** What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle *** Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. - Aristotle ***

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Famous Golf Quotes
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. - Dave Barry *** Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course, the space between your ears. - Bobby Tyre Jones *** For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball. - Dave Barry *** Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. - Jack Benny *** Golf is a fascinating game. It has taken me nearly forty years to discover that I can't play it. - Ted Ray *** Golf is a good walk spoiled. - Mark Twain *** Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But this is certainly not the case. - Bobby Tyre Jones *** Golf is like eating peanuts. You can play too much or play too little. - Bobby Tyre Jones ***

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Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much. - Buddy Hackett *** Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. - Tiger Woods *** I am the toughest golfer mentally. - Tiger Woods *** I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. - Rogers Hornsby *** I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love. - Tiger Woods *** I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot. - Don Adams *** I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. - Gilbert K. Chesterton *** If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business. - Joey Adams *** If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. - Bob Hope ***

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It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me years to realize it. - Bobby Tyre Jones *** It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. - Hank Aaron *** It's not enough just to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and let 'er fly. - Babe Zaharias *** Lay off for three weeks, and then quit for good. (advice) - Sam Snead *** My best score ever was 103, but I've only been playing 15 years. - Alex Karras *** Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum. - Tom Watson *** The only way to enjoy golf is to be a masochist. Go out and beat yourself to death. - Howard Keel *** The other day I broke 70. That's a lot of clubs. - Henny Youngman *** The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. - Bertrand Russell ***

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The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too. - Bobby Tyre Jones *** The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf -- it's almost a law. - H. G. Wells *** There is nothing in this game of golf that can't be improved upon if you practice. - Patty Berg *** You've just got one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it. - Sam Snead ***

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Famous Government Quotes
"[The War Office kept three sets of figures:] one to mislead the public, another to mislead the Cabinet, and the third to mislead itself. - Herbert Henry Asquith *** 'Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.' - Edward Abbey *** A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants. - Alben W. Barkley *** A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should be not only tolerated, but encouraged. - William Henry Harrison *** A friend in power is a friend lost. - Henry Adams *** A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. - Ayn Rand *** A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. (The Iliad) - Homer *** A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money. - Andrew Mellon ***

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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. - Edward Abbey *** 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. - James Madison *** A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties. - Franklin Pierce *** A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship. - Aristotle *** A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. - Edmund Burke *** All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. - James A. Garfield *** All government is an ugly necessity. - Gilbert K. Chesterton *** And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well! - Barbara Bush *** Any cook should be able to run the country. - Vladimir Lenin ***

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Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. - Margaret Thatcher *** Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. - Bob Inglis *** At the beginning of the empire, the tax rates were low and the revenues were high. At the end of the empire, the tax rates were high and the revenues were low. - Ibn Khaldun *** Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Jean Nathan *** Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him. - Larry Speakes *** Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. - Daniel Moynihan *** Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. - Spiro Agnew *** Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early. - George Will ***

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Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? - Pope Julius III *** For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. - Main's Law *** For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Anonymous *** Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P. J. ORourke *** Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. - Noah Webster *** Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it. - Lao Tzu *** Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. - Bertrand Russell *** Government expands to absorb revenue and then some. - Wiker's Law *** 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 ***

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Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. - George Washington *** Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidise it. - Ronald Reagan *** Governments never learn. Only people learn. - Milton Friedman *** He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. - Aristotle *** How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? - Charles de Gaulle *** I am against government by crony. - Harold L. Ickes *** I am having trouble managing the mansion. What I need is a wife. (first elected female US Governor.) - Ella T. Grasso *** I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government. - Woody Allen ***

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I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. - George Bush *** I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers *** I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town. - William Howard Taft *** I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either. - Sophocles *** I think the world is run by C students. - Al McGuire *** I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. - Gerald Early *** I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've concluded, is now an insufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats. - Chet Huntley *** I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal and economic system. - Bill Gates ***

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I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War. (on his greatest disappointment in 34 years as Senate majority leader) - Mike Mansfield *** I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest. - Larry Speakes *** I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. - Newt Gingrich *** I've talked to you on a number of occasions about the economic problems our nation faces, and I am prepared to tell you it's in a hell of a mess—we're not connected to the press room yet, are we? - Ronald Reagan *** If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter. - Wilhelm von Humboldt *** If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. - Aristotle *** If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. - James Madison *** If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country. - James Buchanan ***

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If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government. - George Will *** In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. - Adlai Stevenson *** 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 *** In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. - Irving Layton *** It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job. (on the US presidency) - Erma Bombeck *** It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. - Will Durant *** It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood . . . - James Madison *** Let them impeach, and be damned! - Andrew Johnson ***

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Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right" - Max Stirner *** Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm. - Frank Dane *** No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln *** No man will ever be President of the United States who spells Negro with two Gs. - William Seward *** No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. - James K. Polk *** No, I look at the Senators and pray for the country. - Edward Everett Hale *** Nobody ever says to men, 'how can you be a Congressman and a father.' - Pat Schroeder *** Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. - Kin Hubbard *** Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. - Grover Cleveland ***

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One thing I can say about George...he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring. - Barbara Bush *** Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. - Steve Allen *** People come to Washington believing it is the center of power. I know I did. It was only much later that I learned that Washington is a steering wheel that's not connected to an engine. - Richard Goodwin *** People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United States of Amnesia. - Gore Vidal *** Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for. - Adlai Stevenson *** Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. - Daniel Moynihan *** Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president' s spouse. I wish him well! - Barbara Bush ***

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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. - Richard M. Nixon *** The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. - John D. Rockefeller, Jr. *** The best reason I can think of for not running for president of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. - Adlai Stevenson *** The chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawn wide and deep. - Mary Eliza Church Terrell *** The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. - P.J. O'Rourke *** The federal government can't remodel every firehouse and buy every new police radio in the name of Homeland Security. - Bob Inglis *** The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread. - Andy Rooney *** The four most miserable years of my life. - John Adams ***

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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary. - Wilhelm von Humboldt *** The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. - Harold Wilson *** The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. - Lao Tzu *** The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau. - James F. Byrnes *** The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. - William Henry Beveridge *** The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. - Aristotle *** The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think. - James A. Garfield *** The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel Moynihan *** The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. - Max Stirner ***

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The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back! - Will Rogers *** The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. - Edward Abbey *** The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. - Bill Vaughan *** The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion. - Lewis Mumford *** The world is not going to be saved by legislation. - William Howard Taft *** There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. - Bertrand Russell *** There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers *** They should rule who are able to rule best. - Aristotle ***

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This we learn from Watergate that almost any creep'll be glad to help the Government overthrow the people. - E. Y. Harburg *** Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything. - Josef Stalin *** Those who own the country ought to govern it. - John Jay *** Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk. - Larry Speakes *** Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people. - Grover Cleveland *** To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States. - George W. Bush *** Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone *** We are a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants. - Bob Inglis *** We're half the people; we should be half the Congress. - Jeannette Rankin ***

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We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision. - Byron R. White *** Well, I think it's a very good job. One of the most appealing things about it is that... it enables you to participate in some way and to some extent in the way the country is governed but you're able to maintain a private life as well. [As quoted in BBC article on his death. (4 September 2005)] - William Rehnquist *** Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment. - George Will *** When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. - Thomas Jefferson *** When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. - Clarence Darrow *** Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. - Mikhail Bakunin *** Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs. - Andrew Johnson *** Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth. - Will Rogers ***

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Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure. - Benjamin Harrison *** World War II was the last government program that really worked. - George Will *** You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle *** You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it. - Larry Speakes *** You had better have one King than five hundred. - Charles II of England *** You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord. - Barbara Bush ***

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Famous Graduation Quotes
I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much." - Anthony Lake *** People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... "And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices. - Bill Cosby *** To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States. - George W. Bush ***

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Famous History Quotes
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 *** History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France *** History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. - Malcolm X *** History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. - Edward Gibbon *** History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer *** History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. - Paul Eldridge *** History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte *** History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. - Philip Guedalla *** History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history. - Clarence Darrow ***

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History shows that there are no invincible armies. - Joseph Stalin *** Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells *** I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it. - George Burns *** I felt like a pickle stepping into history.—During the unveiling of his official portrait in the East Room of the White House (June 14, 2004) - Bill Clinton *** I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. - Patrick Henry *** If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! - G. M. Trevelyan *** In times like these, it's helpful to remember that there have always been times like these. - Paul Harvey *** Journalism is merely history's first draft. - Geoffrey Ward *** Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. - Marge Piercy ***

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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. - Will Durant *** The historian is a prophet looking backwards. - Friedrich von Schlegel *** The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes. - Thomas Malthus *** The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. - Spiro Agnew *** The main difference for the history of the world if I had been shot rather than Kennedy is that Onassis probably wouldn't have married Mrs Khrushchev. - Nikita Khrushchev *** There is no reason to repeat bad history. - Eleanor Holmes Norton *** They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history. - Spiro Agnew *** Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. - Dwight D. Eisenhower *** Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana ***

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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of the period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. - Max Beerbohm *** What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel *** Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! - Nikita Khrushchev *** While we read history we make history. - George Wiilliam Curtis *** Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. - Franklin D. Roosevelt *** You can't walk alone, Many have given the illusion but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. - Peter Abrahams ***

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Famous Imagination Quotes
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth. - Napoleon Hill *** Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. - Edward Abbey *** Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Let me warn you to beware of two opposite errors: of letting your imagination soar unballasted by facts, but on the other hand, of shackling it so solidly that it loses all incentive to rise. - Percival Lowell *** Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. - Lauren Bacall *** Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. - Francis Bacon *** Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success upon the stage. - Ellen Terry *** Real poverty is the loss of imagination. - Denyce Graves *** The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination. - Richard Wright ***

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The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. - Oscar Wilde *** The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillincuring, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser. - Malcolm Muggeridge *** To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another. - John Burroughs *** We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. - Maria Mitchell *** When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed. - Lou Brock ***

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Famous Leadership Quotes
A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities. (The Iliad) - Homer *** A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. - Henry A. Kissinger *** A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. - Lao Tzu *** A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under. - Sam Houston *** A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice. - James Callaghan *** A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood. - Henry A. Kissinger *** A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. - Golda Meir *** Always drink upstream from the herd. - Will Rogers ***

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Be the chief but never the lord. - Lao Tzu *** But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain. - Samuel Pepys *** Education is the mother of leadership. - Wendell Willkie *** Example is leadership. - Albert Schweitzer *** For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. - Spike Milligan *** Grown men do not need leaders. - Edward Abbey *** He is great enough that is his own master. - Joseph Hall *** I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. - Newt Gingrich *** It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. - Douglas Adams ***

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It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer *** Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it short-term pain for long-term gain. - George Will *** Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter Drucker *** Might is a fine thing, and useful for many purposes; for "one goes further with a handful of might than with a bagful of right" - Max Stirner *** Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. - Malcolm Muggeridge *** No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. - Andrew Carnegie *** Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. - Thomas J. Watson *** One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold H. Glasow ***

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Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. - Bertrand Russell *** Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. - Tacitus *** So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. - Peter Drucker *** Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head. - Euripides *** The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'. - E. M. Kelly *** The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. - Walter Lippmann *** The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. - Max de Pree *** The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. - Walter Lippmann ***

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The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players. - Blaine Lee *** The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. - Blaine Lee *** The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force. - Andre Maurois *** The sky cannot have two suns. - Chiang Kai-Shek *** The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. - Theodore Martin Hesburgh *** To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. - Andre Malraux *** To lead people, walk beside them... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!' - Lao Tzu *** We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end. - Lane Kirkland ***

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What you cannot enforce, do not command. - Sophocles *** When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. `What do you mean?' the media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.' - Pat Robertson *** When you're leading, don't talk. - Thomas E. Dewey *** You had better have one King than five hundred. - Charles II of England ***

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Famous Life Quotes
. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set. - Benjamin E. Mays *** A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. - Gilbert K. Chesterton *** A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me. - Rudolph Valentino *** Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. - Ayn Rand *** After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I WANT TO SEE THE MANAGER." - Willliam S. Burroughs *** All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. - Sean O'Casey *** An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived. - Herbert Samuel *** Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda ***

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. - William James *** Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** Born to be wild - live to outgrow it. - Lao Tzu *** By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try the world is beyond the winning. - Lao Tzu *** By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well. - Eleanor Marx *** Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. - Francis Bacon *** Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death. - Pier Paolo Pasolini *** Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you plant! - Robert Louis Stevenson *** Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin ***

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Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike. (The Iliad) - Homer *** Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done. - Benjamin E. Mays *** Everyone lives by selling something. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre *** Everything that I did in life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for. - Earl Warren *** For most men life is a search for the proper manilla envelope in which to get themselves filed. - Clifton Fadiman *** From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. - Arthur Ashe *** Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. - Will Rogers *** His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN! - William Shakespeare ***

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I came into this world black, naked and ugly. And no matter how much I accumulate here, it's a short journey. I will go out of this world black, naked and ugly. So I enjoy life. - Screamin' Jay Hawkins *** I figure I had no business being here this long anyway, so what do you care how old I am? I've been on borrowed time for years. You know my old saying: live it up, the meter's running. I've always said that if you don't have fun while you're here, then it's your fault. You only get to do this once. - Harry Caray *** I have a lot of great memories, but I can't imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now. - Rob Lowe *** I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. - Agatha Christie *** I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right. - Tracy Chapman *** I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in. - David Niven *** I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened. - Fidel Castro ***

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I want to keep going till I drop. - Nelson Eddy *** If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. - Arthur Schopenhauer *** If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. - Lin Yutang *** If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. - John Atkinson *** If you really think about the horror of the world, the only suitable attitude seems to be to reject it. - Czeslaw Milosz *** In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. - Lao Tzu *** In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. - Kathleen Norris *** In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. - Bill Vaughan *** It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. - Adlai Stevenson ***

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It is not true that life is one damn thing after another, it is the same damn thing over and over. - Edna St. Vincent Millay *** It isn't life that matters, it's the courage you bring to it. - Sir Hugh Walpole *** It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others. - Anonymous *** It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit. - Bill Gates *** Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross *** Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain *** Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides. - Lao Tzu *** Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. - Albert Schweitzer *** Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. - Woody Allen ***

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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel. - Horace Walpole *** Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. - Sholom Aleichem *** Life is a horizontal fall. - Jean Cocteau *** Life is a long headache in a noisy street. - John Masefield *** Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. - Truman Capote *** Life is a zoo in a jungle. - Peter De Vries *** Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. - Woody Allen *** Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. - E. M. Forster *** Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. - Woody Allen *** Life is just a phase you're going through...you'll get over it. - Anonymous ***

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Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart. - Ross Perot *** Life is like a game of poker: If you don't put any in the pot, there won't be any to take out. - Moms Mabley *** Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep. - Carl Sandburg *** Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little. - Thomas Aloysius Dorgan *** Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink. - Shunryu Suzuki Roshi *** Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 small uncaring ways. - Stephen Vincent Benet *** Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination. - Christopher Isherwood *** Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim - Bertrand Russell *** Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice. - Franz Liszt ***

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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. - Cesare Pavese *** Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty. - Djuna Barnes *** Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov *** Life is short; live it up. - Nikita Khrushchev *** Life is so unlike theory. - Anthony Trollope *** Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out. - W. C. Handy *** Life is wasted on the living. - Douglas Adams *** Life is, I think, a blunder and a shame. - William Henley *** Life itself is the proper binge. - Julia Child *** Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it. - Greta Garbo ***

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Life's more amusing than we thought. - Andrew Lang *** Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast. - Douglas Adams *** Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. - Marcus Aurelius Antonius *** Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. - Agnes De Mille *** Madam, Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room He's the ruffian on the stair. - William Henley *** My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way. - Hilary Duff *** No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you. - Sholom Aleichem *** Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. - Brendan Gill *** Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all. - Arthur Balfour ***

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One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. - Agatha Christie *** One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living. - George Washington Carver *** Our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius Antonius *** Personally, I don't think there's intelligent life on other planets. Why should other planets be any different from this one? - Bob Monkhouse *** Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside. - William Morris *** The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack. - Marcus Aurelius Antonius *** The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly -- because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them. - Michael Caine *** The cost of living's going up, and the chance of livin's going down. - Flip Wilson *** The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. - Eleanor Roosevelt ***

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The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. - Fyodor Dostoevsky *** The secret of a long life is knowing when it's time to go. - Michelle Shocked *** The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye, until we meet again. - Jimi Hendrix *** The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sunilluminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet? - Edwin Markham *** The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat. - Lilly Tomlin *** The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and a thousand other things well. - Sir Hugh Walpole *** The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. - Horace Walpole *** There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them. - Lawrence Welk *** There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde ***

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There is just one life for each of us: our own. - Euripides *** There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana *** There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** There must be more to life than having everything. - Maurice Sendak *** There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. - Carson McCullers *** To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be! - Miguel de Cervantes *** We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity. - Dorothy Height ***

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We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell *** We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - E. M. Forster *** We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. - Jimmy Carter *** We're given a code to live our lives by. We don't always follow it, but it's still there. - Gary Oldman *** We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle. - Benjamin E. Mays *** Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first. - Benjamin Franklin *** When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. - Mark Twain ***

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When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver *** Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. - Ralph Waldo Emerson *** You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money. When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life. I'd like to thank you for giving me a part of your life tonight. - Wayne Newton *** You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon'. - Chris Rock *** You know, it's a long world. - Lawrence Welk *** [I]nstead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey[.] - From The Importance of Living (1937) - Lin Yutang ***

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Famous Love Quotes
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland *** A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another. - Paul Bourget *** Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. - C. S. Lewis *** 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. - W. H. Auden *** Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough. - George Washington Carver *** At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered. - Tracy Chapman *** Base men, being in love, have then a nobility in their natures, more than is native to them. - William Shakespeare *** Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu ***

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Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love. - Cole Porter *** Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. - Bette Davis *** Carve your name on hearts and not on marble. - Charles Spurgeon *** Come live in my heart and pay no rent. - Samuel Lover *** Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine. - Anthony Trollope *** Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain. - Billie Holiday *** Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. - Euripides *** For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us. - Thomas Aquinas *** Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein *** Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while. - Anna Magnani ***

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He is not a lover who does not love forever. - Euripides *** Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. - William Congreve *** How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God. - Thomas Aquinas *** I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. - Sherwood Anderson *** I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. - Judy Garland *** I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere. Crippity crappity creepies. - Vincent Gallo *** I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life. - Anthony Perkins *** I have no patience with women who measure and weigh their love like a country doctor dispensing capsules. If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly. - Marie Dressler ***

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If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. - Erich Fromm *** If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you. - Judy Garland *** If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? - Lily Tomlin *** Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' - Erich Fromm *** In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question. - William Godwin *** In expressing love, we belong among the undeveloped countries. - Saul Bellow *** In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. - Marguerite Duras *** It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. - Niccolo Machiavelli *** It is never too late to fall in love. - Sandy Wilson ***

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Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. - Cesare Pavese *** Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. - William Shakespeare *** Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love. - Hector Berlioz *** Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret. - Aphra Behn *** Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. - Edward Abbey *** Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. - Erica Jong *** Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor *** Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. - Bruce Lee *** Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. - June Masters Bacher ***

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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it. - Anthony Trollope *** Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move. - Moms Mabley *** Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. - Jerome K. Jerome *** Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate. - Margaret Cho *** Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart of life, and is prophetic of eternal good. - Francesco Petrarch *** Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock. - John Barrymore *** Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe. - Novalis *** Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else. - George Bernard Shaw *** Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. - Delmore Schwartz ***

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Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one that includes in its dreams the happiness of some one else. - Alphonse Karr *** Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself. - Jean Anouilh *** Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees! - Sara Orne Jewett *** Love lasteth as long as the money endureth. - William Caxton *** Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well. - Vincent Van Gogh *** Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. - Thomas Aquinas *** Love that is not madness is not love. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca *** Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it. - Maurice Chevalier *** Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. - Zelda Fitzgerald ***

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer. - Jerome K. Jerome *** Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. (Charlie Brown) - Charles Schulz *** One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. - Sophocles *** Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career. - Alexander Borodin *** So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters. - Eden Ahbez *** Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." - Charles Schulz *** That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool. - Charles Boyer ***

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The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. - William Wordsworth *** The best way to know God is to love many things. - Vincent Van Gogh *** The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** The crime of loving is forgetting. - Maurice Chevalier *** The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. - Amelia Barr *** The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love. - Walter S. Landor *** The greatest pleasure of life is love. - Euripides *** The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved. - Eden Ahbez *** The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. - Maria Edgeworth ***

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The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety. - Edward Young *** The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. - Vincent van Gogh *** The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it. - Israel Zangwill *** The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. - George Bernard Shaw *** The perfect lover is one who turns into a pizza at 4:00 A.M. - Charles Pierce *** The story of life is quicker than the wink of an eye, the story of love is hello and goodbye, until we meet again. - Jimi Hendrix *** The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains. - Josephine Baker *** Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. - Dorothy Canfield Fisher *** Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. - W.H. Auden ***

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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. - H.L. Mencken *** To be trusted is a greater complement than to be loved. - George MacDonald *** To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. - Bertrand Russell *** True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. - Erich Segal *** Until I truly loved, I was alone. - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton *** We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe *** What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate. - Euripides *** What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? - Anais Nin *** What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. - Pearl Bailey *** When the power of love overcomes the love of power... the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix ***

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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. - J. K. Rowling *** Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough. - Pierre De Beaumarchais *** Who so loves believes the impossible. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning *** You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. - Henry Drummond ***

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Famous Marriage Quotes
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin *** A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. - Andre Maurois *** A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying. - Alexandre Dumas *** A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland *** A man doesn't know what hapiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. -- (The Joker is Wild, 1957) - Frank Sinatra *** A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. - Ralph Waldo Emerson *** A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. - Jean Rostand *** A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. - Joey Adams *** A really good detective never gets married. - Raymond Chandler ***

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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. - Andre Maurois *** Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted a whole day. - Mickey Rooney *** An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know. - Bette Davis *** An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't. - Sacha Guitry *** Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community. - Brigham Young *** Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. - H. L. Mencken *** Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats. - Woody Allen *** Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. - Helen Rowland ***

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Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives. - George Burns *** Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did. - Bette Davis *** By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates *** Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years. - Simone Signoret *** Cherie has many excellent qualities, but once she goes to sleep, it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her up. - Tony Blair *** Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house. - George Burns *** Don't marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper. - Scotts Proverb *** Everyone knows that a man can always marry even if he reaches 102, is penniless, and has all his faculties gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him. - Amy Vanderbilt ***

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For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end. - Catherine Zeta-Jones *** Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, then when you see what the other fellow has, you wish you had ordered that. - Anonymous *** He was happily married - but his wife wasn't - Victor Borge *** I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. - Zsa Zsa Gabor *** I didn't see a lot of good stuff come out of my parents' marriage, and I haven't seen a lot come out of a lot of marriages. - Jacqueline Bisset *** I don't know if it's good for baseball, but it sure beats the hell out of rooming with Phil Rizzuto! (on the marriage of Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe) - Yogi Berra *** I got rid of my husband. The cat was allergic. - Anonymous *** I have trouble saying hu ... hu ... husband. - Rosanna Arquette *** I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. - Rita Rudner ***

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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. - Barbara Bush *** I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. - Marie Corelli *** I never mind my wife having the last word. In fact, I'm delighted when she gets to it. - Walter Matthau *** I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back. - Henny Youngman *** I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. - Woody Allen *** I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. - Rita Rudner *** I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. - George Burns *** I'd never be unfaithful to my wife for the reason that I love my house very much. - Bob Monkhouse *** I'm a serial bigamist. - Russ Meyer ***

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I've been in love with the same woman for 49 years. If my wife every finds out, she'll kill me! - Henny Youngman *** I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me. - Elayne Boosler *** If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path. - Marty Allen *** If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. - Anne Bradstreet *** If I get married, I want to be very married. - Audrey Hepburn *** If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice. - Estelle Getty *** If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too. - Simone Signoret *** If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. - Johnny Carson *** If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police. - Robert Louis Stevenson ***

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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. - Rita Rudner *** In life, it's not who you know that's important, it's how your wife found out. - Joey Adams *** In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker. - Woody Allen *** In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice that still continues. - Helen Rowland *** Inertia accounts for two-thirds of marriages. But love accounts for the other third. - Woody Allen *** It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. - C. Northcote Parkinson *** It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. - Euripides *** Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. - Benjamin Franklin *** Lust is the sin that gets me excited. Luckily, because I'm married, I also get really good jewelry out of it. - Heather Locklear *** Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. - William Shakespeare ***

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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. - Jim Backus *** Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. - Mae West *** Marriage is an investment which pays dividends if you pay interest. - Bob Monkhous *** Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway. - Joey Adams *** Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. - Irwin Corey *** Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers. - Alan King *** Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. - Dr. Joyce Brothers *** Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. - Jean Kerr *** Men think monogamy is something you make dining tables out of. - Kathy Lette ***

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Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen, and I was three. - Billie Holiday *** My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact. - Roseanne Barr *** My husband said he needed more space. So I locked him outside. - Roseanne Barr *** My husband said it was him or the cat... I miss him sometimes. - Anonymous *** My wife and I have the secret to making a marriage last. Two times a week, we go to a nice restaurant, a little wine, good food..... She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. - Henny Youngman *** My wife and I went back to the hotel where we spent our wedding night. Only this time, I stayed in the bathroom and cried. - Henny Youngman *** My wife and I went to a hotel where we got a waterbed. My wife called it the Dead Sea. - Henny Youngman *** My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. - Rodney Dangerfield *** My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. - Jack Benny ***

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soulmate is the one you are actually married to. - J. R. R. Tolkien *** Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with. - Patricia Arquette *** Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near. - Helen Rowland *** Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** One man's folly is another man's wife. - Helen Rowland *** One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride. - Bernard Malamud *** Real happiness is when you marry a girl for love and find out later she has money. - Bob Monkhouse *** Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them. - Samuel Pepys *** She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face. - Henny Youngman ***

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The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it. - Anne Bancroft *** The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock." - William Rehnquist *** The only time some fellows are seen with their wives is after they're indicted. - Kin Hubbard *** The Three Ages of Marriage: Twenty is when you watch the TV after. Forty is when you watch the TV during. Sixty is when you watch the TV instead. - Anonymous *** The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing—and then marry him. - Cher *** There is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast. - Helen Rowland *** There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and bigamy, sir, is a crime!' - William Cosmo Monkhouse *** There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded. - Diana Princess of Wales *** They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings) - Peggy Lee ***

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Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life. - David Niven *** We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops. - Henny Youngman *** When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. - Sacha Guitry *** When my husband comes home, if the kids are still alive, I figure I've done my job. - Roseanne Barr *** When you get married you forget about kissing other women. - Pat Boone *** When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. - Billy Crystal *** Why can't women tell jokes? Because we marry them! - Kathy Lette *** Why get married and make one man miserable when I can stay single and make thousands miserable? - Carrie Snow *** With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me. - Rodney Dangerfield ***

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You can't really expect a 22-year-old girl to react the same way as a man 24 years older than her. (on her marriage to Rod Stewart) - Rachel Hunter *** You have no idea of the women I didn't marry. - Artie Shaw *** You're the only boy who ever made me cry, and I decided that if you could make me cry, I must really love you. (Accepting George Burns proposal of marriage) - Gracie Allen *** Your marriage is in trouble if your wife says, 'You're only interested in one thing,' and you can't remember what it is. - Milton Berle *** Zsa Zsa Gabor got married as a one-off, and it was so successful she turned it into a series. - Bob Hope ***

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Famous Military Quotes
A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. - George S. Patton *** Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior. - Carl von Clausewitz *** Don't be conspicuous. In the combat zone, it draws fire. Out of the combat zone, it draws sergeants. - Murphy's Seventh Military Law *** Friendly fire isn't. - Murphy's Second Military Law *** If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton *** If you really need an officer in a hurry, take a nap. - Murphy's Eighth Military Law *** If your sergeant can see you, so can the enemy. - Murphy's Sixth Military Law *** Incoming fire has the right of way. - Murphy's Fourth Military Law *** It takes fifteen thousand casualties to train a major-general. - Ferdinand Foch ***

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Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. - Groucho Marx *** Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte *** Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are. - Murphy's First Military Law *** Never worry about the bullet with your name on it. Instead, worry about shrapnel addressed to 'occupant'. - Murphy's Tenth Military Law *** The army with the smartest dress uniform will lose. - Murphy's Fifth Military Law *** The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engage in gestures of superficial equality. [Majority opinion in a 6-3 ruling that upheld military draft for males only (25 June 1981)] - William Rehnquist *** The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. - William Westmoreland *** The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an officer with a map. - Murphy's Third Military Law *** The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small. - Murphy's Ninth Military Law ***

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We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. - General Douglas MacArthur *** We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, "You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms." - Elayne Boosler ***

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Famous Money Quotes
...and now we're down to our last $37,000. - Tammy Faye Bakker *** A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it rains. - Robert Frost *** A great fortune is a great slavery. - Seneca *** A man explained inflation to his wife thus: 'When we married, you measured 36-2436. Now you're 42-42-42. There's more of you, but you are not worth as much.' - Joel Barnett *** A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich. - John Jacob Astor *** A nation is not in danger of financial disaster merely because it owes itself money. - Andrew Mellon *** Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. - Ambrose Bierce *** After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. - Aristotle Onassis *** All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy. - Spike Milligan ***

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All money is a matter of belief. - Adam Smith *** An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. - Plutarch *** Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac *** Capital isn't scarce; vision is. - Sam Walton *** Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa. - T. Boone Pickens *** Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. - Benjamin Franklin *** Don't marry for money. You can borrow it cheaper. - Scotts Proverb *** Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. - George Burns *** Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college. - Bill Vaughn ***

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Ever notice how it's a penny for your thoughts, yet you put in your two-cents? Someone is making a penny on the deal! - Steven Wright *** Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward. - George Carlin *** Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben *** Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery. - Beverly Johnson *** He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. - Benjamin Franklin *** He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise. - Christopher Columbus *** He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread. - Daniel Webster *** Honesty is the best policy -- when there is money in it. - Mark Twain *** How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars? - Henry George ***

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I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. - Edward Gibbon *** I can live without money, but I cannot live without love. - Judy Garland *** I cannot afford to waste my time making money. - Louis Agassiz *** I don't even get an allowance. (at age 10) - Macaulay Culkin *** I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. - Joe Louis *** I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year. - Victor Borge *** I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere. - Roy Acuff *** I don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day. - Linda Evangelista *** I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me. - Karen Carpenter ***

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I finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts: financial worries. - Jules Renard *** I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser. - Osbert Sitwell *** I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. - Jackie Mason *** I love to go to Washington, if only to be nearer my money. - Bob Hope *** I made my money the old fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died. - Malcolm Forbes *** I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that. I work very hard and I'm worth every cent. - Naomi Campbell *** I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process. - Benjamin Harrison *** I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. - George Best *** I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. - Andrew Carnegie ***

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I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese. - Rowan Atkinson *** I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings *** I'm so naive about finances. Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three Mercedes.' Then I understood. - Brooke Shields *** I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok. - Shaquille O'Neal *** If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around. - Christina Stead *** If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. - Lane Kirkland *** If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company: I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner. - John Barrymore *** If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood. - Katharine Graham *** If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. - Aristotle Onassis ***

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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty *** If you have to ask, you can't afford it! - J.Pierpont Morgan *** If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again; it was probably worth it. - Anonymous *** If you see a bandwagon, it's too late. - James Goldsmith *** If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. - Anonymous *** If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. - Dorothy Parker *** If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap!" - Delta Burke *** If you would know the value of money try to borrow some. - Benjamin Franklin *** In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard. - James L. Buckley *** In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. - Alan Greenspan ***

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It is better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money. - P. J. O'Rourke *** It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. - Aeschylus *** It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed. - Kin Hubbard *** It is simply, and solely, the abundance of money within a state [which] makes the difference in its grandeur and power. - Jean-Baptiste Colbert *** It isn't enough for you to love money— it's also necessary that money should love you. - Kin Hubbard *** It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. - Alan Alda *** It's amazing how fast later comes when you buy now! - Milton Berle *** It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy. - George Lorimer ***

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Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with. - Artemus Ward *** Love lasteth as long as the money endureth. - William Caxton *** Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. - Spike Milligan *** Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it. - Anonymous *** Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. - Spike Milligan *** Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.” - Edward Abbey *** Money costs too much. - Ross MacDonald *** Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. - Spike Milligan *** Money doesn't make the man. Some people have money, and some people are rich. - Thomas A. Dorsey ***

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Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. - Woody Allen *** Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security. It also can be translated into a source of bitterness. - Sylvia Porter *** Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. - Bill Vaughn *** Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money. - Sophocles *** My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly... - Johann Sebastian Bach *** Never invest in anything that eats or needs repairing. - Billy Rose *** No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. - Thomas E. Dewey *** No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan *** No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions - he had money, too. - Margaret Thatcher ***

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Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them. - Jean De La Bruyere *** Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy. - Aeschylus *** Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip. - John Locke *** People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith *** Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. - Robert Penn Warren *** Pound notes are the best religion in the world. - Brendan Behan *** Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious. - Deng Xiaoping *** Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. - Aristotle ***

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. - Samuel Johnson *** Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.' - Paul McCartney *** Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be. - Rita Rudner *** Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won't be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did. - Henny Youngman *** The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice. - Sir Arthur Helps *** The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. - Arthur Godfrey *** The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough. - Thomas E. Dewey *** The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights. - J. Paul Getty *** The most popular labor-saving device is still money. - Phyllis George ***

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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it. (on junk bonds) - Warren Buffett *** The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger. - Sholom Aleichem *** The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. - Kin Hubbard *** There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. - Andrew Carnegie *** There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches. - Hesketh Pearson *** There is nothing fundamentally wrong with America's cities that money can't cure. - Carl B. Stokes *** There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. - Edmund Wilson *** There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails. - Spencer Tracy ***

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There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there. - Colonel Sanders *** To be clever enough to get all the money, one must be stupid enough to want it. - Gilbert K. Chesterton *** Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like. - Will Smith *** We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed. - Chris Rock *** Wealth is any income that is at least one hundred dollars a year more than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. - H. L. Mencken *** Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. - Euripides *** When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money. - Kin Hubbard *** When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. - Euripides *** When its a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. - Voltaire ***

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When people ask me if I have any spare change, I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet. - Nick Arnette *** Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop. - Gertrude Stein *** You can be young without money but you can't be old without it. - Tennessee Williams *** You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money. When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life. I'd like to thank you for giving me a part of your life tonight. - Wayne Newton *** You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's. - Vance Packard *** You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. - John Barrymore ***

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Famous Movie Quotes
A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. - Orson Welles *** A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. - Alfred Hitchcock *** A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live. - Bob Hope *** A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake. - Alfred Hitchcock *** A man doesn't know what hapiness is until he's married. By then it's too late. -- (The Joker is Wild, 1957) - Frank Sinatra *** A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers. -- (Kid Millions, 1934) - Eddie Cantor *** A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad. - Samuel Goldwyn *** A woman can smell mink through six inches of lead. (Double Dynamite) - Groucho Marx *** Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars? (Monkey Business) - Groucho Marx ***

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Africa is God's country, and He can have it. (Animal Crackers) - Groucho Marx *** After The Matrix, I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognise me. - Carrie-Anne Moss *** All in all, it's just another flick to appall. (on Pink Floyd's "The Wall") - Paul Taylor *** All of a sudden I found myself doing things like 'Robot Monster' and 'Cat-Women of the Moon,' and I didn't know what the devil was going on. But if you're going to do a really bad movie, at least you do one that is at the top of the all-time bad-movie list. - Elmer Bernstein *** All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish. - Clive James *** Although my first feature film score was for Interpol, I had already done a number of documentaries for the musical director John Hollingsworth. That was my way into the business. - Richard Rodney Bennett *** Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. - Alfred Hitchcock *** An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation. - Billy Wilder ***

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As long as the producers want me and the Almighty doesn't. (on how long he would play 'Q' in the James Bond movies) - Desmond Llewelyn *** Because I'm the only actor who ever killed John Wayne in a picture, producers have pegged me for a villain. - Bruce Dern *** Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take. (star of 'Alien From L.A.' and 'Danger Island') - Kathy Ireland *** Between pictures, there is no Lon Chaney. - Lon Chaney *** Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints. - Alfred Hitchcock *** By the time a film of mine makes it into the theaters, I have a love-hate relationship with it. There is always something I could have done to make it better. - William Friedkin *** Chicolini here may talk like an idiot and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot. (Duck Soup) - Groucho Marx *** Clear? Huh! Why a 4-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a 4-year-old child. I can't make head or tail out of it. (Duck Soup) - Groucho Marx ***

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Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For that matter, neither have I. - John Huston *** Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms. - Alfred Hitchcock *** Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up. - Alfred Hitchcock *** Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint. - Frank Capra *** Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case? (to Vincent Price at Bela Lugosi's funeral) - Peter Lorre *** Don't look now, but there's one man too many in this room, and I think it's you. (Duck Soup) - Groucho Marx *** Drama is life with the dull bits cut out. - Alfred Hitchcock *** Every great film should seem new every time you see it. - Roger Ebert *** Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings. (at the 2003 Oscars) - Kathy Bates ***

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Every time I get romantic with you, you want to talk business. I don't know, there's something about me that brings out the business in every woman. (Night at the Opera) - Groucho Marx *** Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates. - Werner Herzog *** Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra *** Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes. - Robert Altman *** For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. - Alfred Hitchcock *** Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. - Alfred Hitchcock *** Go see that turkey for yourself, and see for yourself why you shouldn’t see it. - Samuel Goldwyn *** God makes stars. I just produce them. - Samuel Goldwyn *** Goodbye, Mr. Zanuck; it certainly has been a pleasure working at Sixteenth Century Fox. - Jean Renoir ***

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Hasta la vista, Baby (Terminator 2: Judgment Day) - Arnold Schwarzenegger *** He also made me wear a padded bra. You know, nothing says DEA agent more than double D's. [talking about Michael Bay's Bad Boys 2) - Gabrielle Union *** Hollywood was a great club. I think it was a difficult place for actors. They were very competitive in the star world. But for those of us involved in the creative side of things it was a great club. We were very interested in each other. All the other composers were very helpful when I first went out there. - Elmer Bernstein *** I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. - Alfred Hitchcock *** I can't see what Jack Warner can do with an Oscar - it can't say yes. - Al Jolson *** I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions. - Elmer Bernstein *** I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold, I almost got married. - Shelley Winters *** I did what anybody would do if they were going to dance around in a g-string and bra in front of 50 men for four days...I didn't eat very much for a month. [on her True Lies dance scene] - Jamie Lee Curtis ***

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I don't know any other business that tells you not to go in and buy their product. (on movie ratings) - Jack Valenti *** I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level. I like movies I can relate to. - Kim Cattrall *** I don't think he could direct his nephew to the bathroom. -- (on Otto Preminger) - Dyan Cannon *** I don’t care if it doesn’t make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it. - Samuel Goldwyn *** I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen. - Peter Sellers *** I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it. [On Charlie Chaplin] - Rowan Atkinson *** I have a thing with the camera. The lens is unconditional. It doesn't judge you. - Debra Winger *** I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers. -- (on growing old in Hollywood, March 2001, More Magazine) - Jamie Lee Curtis ***

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I heard that, before 'Baby Jane,' when Bette Davis was washed up in the movies and took her act on the road, Tallulah Bankhead sent her a first-night telegram which read: 'Kisses on Your Opening.' Tallulah was AC-DC. Bette is strictly B.D. - Joan Blondell *** I keep seeing lousy films and saying to myself, 'I don't know anything about moviemaking, but I couldn't do any worse than this'. - Stanley Kubrick *** I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth. - Tatjana Patitz *** I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. - Frank Capra *** I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse. - William Wyler *** I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try to write, but it's not that easy. Acting is what's easy. - David Niven *** I married your mother because I wanted children. Imagine my disappointment when you arrived. (Horse Feathers) - Groucho Marx *** I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine. - Audrey Hepburn ***

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I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose. - Mike Royko *** I really liked Lassie, but that horse, Flicka, was a nasty animal with a terrible disposition. All the Flickas—all six of them—were awful. - Roddy McDowall *** I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie. - William Friedkin *** I shouldn't make movies. I should go to a lunatic asylum. - Werner Herzog *** I steal from every movie ever made. - Quentin Tarantino *** I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst's couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing. - John Wayne *** I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth. - Debbie Reynolds *** I think that [the film] 'Clueless' was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness. -- (quoted in the Sunday Telegraph) - Alicia Silverstone *** I thought 'Deep Throat' was a movie about a giraffe. - Bob Hope ***

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I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public. - George Lucas *** I used to resent 'King Kong,' but now I don't fight it anymore. I realize that it is a classic, and I am pleased to be associated with it. Why, only recently an entire issue of a French magazine was devoted to discussing the picture from its artistic, moral and even religious aspects. - Faye Wray *** I was what they called a feature player, never a star. They say I was in 500 films, everything but the newsreels. - ZaSu Pitts *** I would like to spank director Spike Jonze. -- (Meryl misreads a faxed acceptance speech at the 2003 Baftas) - Meryl Streep *** I would stand on the floor, and they would bring this arm down and cinch it around my waist, then pull me up in the air. Every time I moved, one of the fingers would loosen, so it would look like I was trying to get away. Actually, I was trying not to slip through his hand. - Faye Wray *** I wouldn't mind being in an American film for a laugh, but I certainly don't want to be in Thingy Blah Blah 3, if you know what I mean. - Audrey Tautou *** I'd have thrashed him to within an inch of his life, but I didn't have a tape measure. (Go West) - Groucho Marx *** I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper. - Gary Cooper ***

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I'm not a big filmophile. I don't watch movies a lot for a hobby. I spend all my time watching sporting events. Because, opposed to movies, you can never tell how they're going to end. - Michael Douglas *** I'm pretty slapstick in my life but nobody sees that. You get typecast. I'm from New York and I have a sh*t-detector that's outspoken. I'm very streetwise and the producers detect that. So they get me on a movie and kill me. I go into their offices and I'm sure when I leave they say, 'You know, he'd be great to kill'. I've been killed every way you can imagine. - Lance Henriksen *** I'm proud and grateful I was Blondie, She was dumb and shrewish sometimes, but she was real and sympathetic and warm, a real woman, a human being. And that's how I tried to play her. - Penny Singleton *** I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it. - Henry Fonda *** I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it. - Groucho Marx *** I've had small parts in big pictures and big parts in small pictures. - Candy Darling *** I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way any more. They leave it on the dresser. - Shirley MacLaine *** I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'Oooh. - Lawrence Fishburne ***

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If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero you know I can sell just about anything. (January 6, 2004) - Arnold Schwarzenegger *** If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it. - Werner Herzog *** If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn’t be in this business. - Samuel Goldwyn *** If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers. - Carol Alt *** If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on. - Alfred Hitchcock *** If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it. - George Burns *** If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right. - Woody Allen *** If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job. - Woody Allen *** If you are what you eat, then one of the sharks in 'Jaws' is a beer can, half a mackerel and a Louisiana license plate... The other characters in the film are nowhere nearly so fully packed. - Vincent Canby ***

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In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director. - Alfred Hitchcock *** In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, "Did he leave a will?" but "Did he leave a diary?" - Liza Minnelli *** In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage. - Frank Capra *** It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high. - Steven Seagal *** It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is preposterous to write about them in any publication not intended to be read while chewing gum. - Wolcott Gibbs *** It's got so that every time I walk into a restaurant I get not only soup but an impersonation of Captain Bligh. - Charles Laughton *** It's nice to be immortal. Film has given us immortality. Now my children are going to appreciate Tarzan. - Maureen O'Sullivan *** It's our fault. We should have given him better parts. - Jack Warner ***

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John is half-tyrant, half-revolutionary; half-saint, half-satan; half-possible, halfimpossible; half-genius, half-Irish. - Frank Capra *** Lawyers should not marry other lawyers. This is called inbreeding, from which comes idiot children and other lawyers. (Adam's Rib, 1949) - David Wayne *** Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor. - Groucho Marx *** Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies. - Truman Capote *** Making a film is like going down a mine—once you've started you bid a metaphorical goodbye to the daylight and the outside world for the duration. - John Schlesinger *** Maybe you can suggest something. As a matter of fact, you do suggest something. To me you suggest a baboon. (Duck Soup) - Groucho Marx *** Most of us do not consciously look at movies. - Roger Ebert *** Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life. - Juliette Binoche *** My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, Start them! - Frank Capra ***

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My boy, get in there and play like you did in the last game. I've got five dollars bet on the other team. (Horse Feathers) - Groucho Marx *** My contribution to film has always been negligible. - Sir Alec Guinness *** My dentist said to me the other day, I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films? - David Cronenberg *** My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do. - Anne Dudley *** My friend James Cameron and I made three films together - True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, arthouse period. (presenting at the 1998 Oscars®) - Arnold Schwarzenegger *** My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents [the adults had to pay]. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar *** My movie is not about Vietnam. My movie is Vietnam. - Francis Ford Coppola *** My thanks to the Academy for the very finest, greatest award that any actor can ever receive. The only thing a man can say at a time like this is—I am not really bald. - Tommy Lee Jones ***

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My theory has always been to write a real small story against a big background. (on making westerns) - Burt Kennedy *** Never judge a book by its movie. - J.W. Eagan *** No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough." - Roger Ebert *** No, no, I'd rather not. I have an agreement with the houseflies. The flies don't practice law and I don't walk on the ceiling. (At the Circus) - Groucho Marx *** Oh, I know it's a penny here and a penny there, but look at me. I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. (Monkey Business) - Groucho Marx *** Once I got the Lone Ranger role, I didn't want any other. - Clayton Moore *** One morning, I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas I don't know. (Animal Crackers) - Groucho Marx *** One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention. - Arnold Schwarzenegger *** One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. - Harold Rosenberg ***

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One woman and one man was good enough for your grandmother, but who wants to marry your grandmother? Nobody, not even your grandfather. (Animal Crackers) - Groucho Marx *** Our comedies are not to be laughed at. - Samuel Goldwyn *** People are lost today, and they always tell me we need another Billy Jack, who stood for moral and spiritual values and psychic truths. - Tom Laughlin *** People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me? - Juliette Lewis *** Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union. - Samuel Goldwyn *** Say! You cover a lot of ground yourself. You'd better beat it. I hear they're gonna tear you down and put up an office building where you're standing. (Duck Soup) - Groucho Marx *** Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler. - Norma Shearer *** Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult. - Totie Fields *** So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year? - Christina Aguilera ***

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Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film. - Werner Herzog *** The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times per second. - Brian De Palma *** The films are polar opposites. In one, I had to strap my breasts down and in the other push them up. (on "Boys Don't Cry" and "The Affair of the Necklace") - Hillary Swank *** The first question I ask myself is Why is there music in this film at all? What's it doing here? Then your questions get more and more specific. For example, you decide one scene will have music and another one won't. Obviously you discuss that with the filmmaker, and there may be some disagreement. - Elmer Bernstein *** The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. - Alfred Hitchcock *** The next one. (on which of his films was his favorite) - George Pal *** The only acting you ever see at the Oscars is when people act like they're not mad they lost. Nicole Kidman was smiling so wide, she should have won an Emmy at the Oscars for her great performance. I was like, 'If you'd done that in the movie, you'd have won an Oscar, girl! - Chris Rock *** The secret to film is that it's an illusion. - George Lucas ***

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The trouble with Bogart is he thinks he's Bogart. - John Huston *** There are many vampires in the world today - you only have to think of the film business. - Christopher Lee *** They say I'm unsubtle. But we need above all, a theatre that wakes us up: nerves and heart. - Oliver Stone *** They used to shoot her through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum. (referring to Shirley Temple) - Tallulah Bankhead *** This bear was six foot seven in his stocking feet and had shoes on. (Animal Crackers) - Groucho Marx *** This has definitely been the highlight of my day. (on winning an Oscar for "American Beauty") - Kevin Spacey *** This is the most uncomfortable coffin I've ever been in. (to Ed Wood on one of his movie sets) - Bela Lugosi *** Two thousand dollars for ice? I can get an Eskimo for two hundred dollars and make my own ice. (Horse Feathers) - Groucho Marx *** Violence is not funny. - William Friedkin ***

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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch. - Quentin Tarantino *** We took some pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed, but we're going back again in a couple of weeks. (Animal Crackers) - Groucho Marx *** We won't make a sequel, but we may well make a second episode. (on "Batman") - Jon Peters *** We've got to speed things up in this hotel. Chef, if a guest orders a three-minute egg, give it to him in two minutes. If he orders a two-minute egg, give it to him in one minute. If he orders a one-minute egg, give him a chicken and let him work it out for himself. (A Night in Casablanca) - Groucho Marx *** Welcome to the Academy Awards, a glittering two hours of entertainment, spread out over four hours. For those of you taping this on Betamax, you're under arrest. -(at the 1979 Oscars®) - Johnny Carson *** What do you want me to do? Stop shooting now and release it as The Five Commandments? (running over budget on the filming of "The Ten Commandments) - Cecil B. DeMille *** When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.' - Alfred Hitchcock *** When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman. - Gene Kelly ***

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When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay. (Night at the Opera) - Groucho Marx *** When I saw the dancing chicken, I knew I would create a grand metaphor—for what, I don't know. - Werner Herzog *** When the Academy called, I panicked. I thought they might want their Oscars back and the pawn shop has been out of business for awhile. (at the 2002 Oscars) - Woody Allen *** When you've made six pictures and the mule still gets more fan mail than you do... (on leaving the Francis the Talking Mule franchise) - Donald O'Connor *** Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out? (Horse Feathers) - Groucho Marx *** Why should people go out and pay to see bad movies when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing. - Samuel Goldwyn *** Women are like Elephants. I like to watch them, but I wouldn't want to own one. (Mississippi, 1935) - W. C. Fields *** Yeah, I had to change my name because there were two other actors registered at Equity with that name. One of them is doing quite well from what I understand, the other is making cheap porn movies... like 'Basic Instinct.' (on his given name (Michael John Douglas) - Michael Keaton ***

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You call this a script? Give me a couple of $5000.00-a-week writers and I'll write it myself. - Joe Pasternak *** You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff. (Duck Soup) - Groucho Marx *** You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies. - Steve Martin *** You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here. You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle. (Duck Soup) - Groucho Marx *** You knuckleheads! - Moe Howard *** You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. (parodying Sally Field while accepting "Independent Spirit" Award) - Sean Penn *** You're willing to pay him a thousand dollars a night just for singing? Why, you can get a phonograph record of Minnie the Moocher for 75 cents. And for a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie. (Night at the Opera) - Groucho Marx *** You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it. (Horse Feathers) - Groucho Marx ***

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[Hollywood is] a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. - Marilyn Monroe ***

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Famous Music Quotes
"(The saxophone sound) was always intended to be an all-around combination; but when we do play a swing number, we expect and try to make it swing as much as possible. - Glenn Miller *** A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality. - Glenn Miller *** A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it. - Hanns Eisler *** A Druid in training must be a bard before he is a priest, for music is one of the keys to the laws of the universe. - Marion Zimmer Bradley *** A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection. - John Cage *** A good composer does not imitate; he steals. - Igor Stravinsky *** A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out. - Ernest Newman *** A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time. - Mariah Carey ***

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A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children. - Ian Anderson *** A lot of singers think all they have to do is exercise their tonsils to get ahead. They refuse to look for new ideas and new outlets, so they fall by the wayside. . . I'm going to try to find out the new ideas before the others do. - Ella Fitzgerald *** A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist. - Mike Gordon *** A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Sir Thomas Beecham *** A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music. - Ramon Gomez de la Serna *** A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O. - Ira Gershwin *** A sound does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needing another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has not time for any consideration--it is occupied with the performance of its characteristics: before it has died away it must have made perfectly exact its frequency, its loudness, its length, its overtone structure, the precise morphology of these and of itself. - John Cage *** A symphony is no joke. - Johannes Brahms ***

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A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting. - Billy Joel *** Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music. - Elliott Carter *** About as modest as Mussolini. (on Joni Mitchell) - David Crosby *** Above all, I am an opera singer. This is how people will remember me. - Luciano Pavarotti *** Actually Fish and I had this side band that played a lot of Dead covers and stuff, called the Dangerous Grapes. Also Allmans, typical blues stuff. - Mike Gordon *** Actually, it's great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions. - Mike Gordon *** After Harvard Walter Piston was then a young man teaching at Harvard, had studied with Nadia Boulanger and he advised that I should go study with her because she at that particular time, which is 1932, there were very few teachers that could stand modern music. - Elliott Carter *** After I die I shall return to earth as the doorkeeper of a bordello and I won't let a one of you in. - Arturo Toscanini ***

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After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's where I write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person. - Kate Bush *** After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music? - Richard Wagner *** After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. - Aldous Huxley *** All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of this period in my life. It will be that by default. - Alanis Morissette *** All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song. - Louis Armstrong *** All of a sudden I found myself doing things like 'Robot Monster' and 'Cat-Women of the Moon,' and I didn't know what the devil was going on. But if you're going to do a really bad movie, at least you do one that is at the top of the all-time bad-movie list. - Elmer Bernstein *** All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. - Frank Zappa *** All the sounds of the earth are like music. - Oscar Hammerstein *** Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris. - Elliott Carter ***

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Although my first feature film score was for Interpol, I had already done a number of documentaries for the musical director John Hollingsworth. That was my way into the business. - Richard Rodney Bennett *** Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man. - Andre Segovia *** An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted. - Claudio Arrau *** An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences. - Edith Wharton *** Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end. - Eminem *** Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it. - Alanis Morissette *** Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. - Voltaire *** As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note. - Georges Bizet ***

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As I say I was a friend with Charles Ives, and Henry Cowell, and I knew Aaron right up to the very end of his life. - Elliott Carter *** Assassins! - Arturo Toscanini *** Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it. - Brian Eno *** Bach gave us God's Word. Mozart gave us God's laughter. Beethoven gave us God's fire. God gave us Music that we might pray without words. - quote outside an opera house *** Barbershop quartet singing is four guys tasting the holy essence of four individual mechanisms coming into complete agreement. - Meredith Willson *** Basically, we put our songs together in very much the same way the guys in Metallica do. - John Flansburgh *** Be sure not to force the Sound thro' your Nose; but warble the Notes in your Throat. - William Billings *** Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer. - John Ruskin *** Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. - Ludwig Van Beethoven ***

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Beethoven’s last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man. - Thomas Beecham *** Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself. - Erik Satie *** Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that. - Aretha Franklin *** Beware the lollipop of mediocrity; lick it once and you'll suck forever. - Brian Wilson *** Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things. - Big Bill Broonzy *** Boys, if you don't stick together, how do you expect me to follow you-ah? - Lawrence Welk *** Boys, look like you're having fun, but don't have any. (To his band just before going on the air) - Lawrence Welk *** Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his. - Franz Liszt *** Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. - Sir Thomas Beecham ***

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Bring the good old bugle, boys! We'll sing another song. - Henry Clay Work *** But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it. - Ralph Vaughan Williams *** Choristers must always remember to set flat keyed tunes to melancoly words, and sharp keyed tunes to cheerful words. - William Billings *** Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune. - Kin Hubbard *** Competitions are for horses, not artists. - Bela Bartok *** Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully. - Johannes Brahms *** Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. - Sir Thomas Beecham *** Composers shouldn't think too much—it interferes with their plagiarism. - Howard Dietz *** Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house. - Benjamin Britten ***

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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free. - Nat King Cole *** Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell. - Marvin Gaye *** Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music? - John Cusack *** Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it. - Chet Atkins *** Do it right or don’t do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there’s something I want to do, I’m one of those people that won’t be satisfied until I get it done. If I’m trying to sing something and I can’t get it, I’m going to keep at it until I get where I want it. - Ray Charles *** Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you. - Charlie Parker *** During the 'whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa's' in 'Combination Of the Two,' I couldn't help but go to the mirror and pretend I was a wild woman like Janis, in a rock band. - Joan Jett *** Elektra has no control over the live show, at least. - Mike Gordon ***

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Elizabeth Lutyens was the first professional composer that I ever knew. I sent some extremely infantile pieces that I I'd written and got marvellous encouragement and interest from her... she's certainly the English composer who's influenced me the most. - Richard Rodney Bennett *** Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music...music one can live in like a house. - Jean Cocteau *** Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow. - Larry Adler *** Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. - Hector Berlioz *** Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize. - Rupert Holmes *** Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful. - Beth Anderson *** Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. - Isaac Stern *** Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music. - Frank Capra ***

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For 15 years, we always thought we would last as long as our last record contract. - John Entwistle *** For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy. - Maurice Ravel *** For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me. - Danny Elfman *** For the amount of talent I had (and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke) I enjoyed a tremendous career. - Perry Como *** For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set. - Roger Waters *** Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings. - Jelly Roll Morton *** Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music. - Gioacchino Antonio Rossini *** Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout. - Melvin Maddocks *** God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way. - Arturo Toscanini ***

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Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. - Sir Thomas Beecham *** Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like. - John Zorn *** Handel from Hanover, a man of the vastest genius and skill in music that perhaps has lived since Orpheus. - Viscount Percival *** He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley) - Bing Crosby *** He stole my music but he gave me my name. (on Mick Jagger) - Muddy Waters *** His Majesty does not know what the band has just played, but it is never to be played again. (on Richard Strauss' "Elektra") - George V *** His music used to be original. Now it's aboriginal. [About Igor Stravinsky] - Sir Ernest Newman *** Hits are for squares. - Thurston Moore *** Hollywood was a great club. I think it was a difficult place for actors. They were very competitive in the star world. But for those of us involved in the creative side of things it was a great club. We were very interested in each other. All the other composers were very helpful when I first went out there. - Elmer Bernstein ***

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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it? - Nina Simone *** How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers. - Gioacchino Antonio Rossini *** I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for. - Mike Gordon *** I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music. - Aretha Franklin *** I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure. - Max Roach *** I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest. - Tammy Wynette *** I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear. (on Bob Dylan) - Mick Ronson *** I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something. - Harry Chapin *** I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little. - Maurice Ravel ***

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I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earn a living entirely as a composer. - Richard Rodney Bennett *** I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't. - Buck Owens *** I begin by considering an effect. - Maurice Ravel *** I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done. - David Baker *** I can tell you which aria the audience like. Nessun Dorma, from Turandot. - Luciano Pavarotti *** I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy. - Alban Berg *** I can't believe that people really prefer to go to the concert hall under intellectually trying, socially trying, physically trying conditions, unable to repeat something they have missed, when they can sit at home under the most comfortable and stimulating circumstances and hear it as they want to hear it. - Milton Babbitt *** I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. - Woody Allen ***

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I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing. - Bela Bartok *** I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of 'Daydream' in a lot of elevators. - John Sebastian *** I conclude that the Wagnerian operas which are already in the repertoire, and other masterworks as well, stand in no further need of my services. - Franz Liszt *** I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media. - Milton Babbitt *** I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me! - Cy Coleman *** I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it. - Quincy Jones *** I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. - Elvis Presley *** I don't know where my songs come from . . . If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane. - Judy Collins *** I don't know whether I like it, but it is what I meant. (on his Symphony No. 4) - Ralph Vaughan Williams ***

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I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down' - Bob Newhart *** I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to. - Mariah Carey *** I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand. - Sir Edward Appleton *** I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am-I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence. - Mike Gordon *** I don't really know if a gig's going to be good or bad or medium, and sometimes I am really psyched, and other times, if my personal life isn't going right, then I will be the opposite. Most of the time I just sort of walk on and see what happens. - Mike Gordon *** I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow. - B. B. King *** I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist. - Mike Gordon *** I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill. - Franz Liszt ***

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I guess there are two things that make me like songs generally, of ours, and that is if they groove well, or if they have a jam that can go somewhere. - Mike Gordon *** I had a choice whether to play with Phish, or with the people from the Dangerous Grapes. I felt like I was clicking better with the Dangerous Grapes people, but it seemed like, in terms of being experimental and thinking of the future, that the Phish people were like that. - Mike Gordon *** I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living. - Harold Budd *** I hate record labels. They think they know everything. I want to hear them try to sing it. - Jessica Simpson *** I have a love-hate relationship with performing. - Sarah Brightman *** I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Edgar Wilson Nye *** I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means. - La Monte Young *** I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music. - Kurt Weill ***

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I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide. - Mark Twain *** I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful. - Mike Gordon *** I haven’t (got) a great jazz band and I don’t want one... A dozen colored bands have a beat better than mine. - Glenn Miller *** I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment. - John Cage *** I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would I accept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be a downtown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimately banal. - Anthony Davis *** I know I'm no glamour girl, and it's not easy for me to get up in front of a crowd of people. It used to bother me a lot, but now I've got it figured out that God gave me this talent to use, so I just stand there and sing. - Ella Fitzgerald ***

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I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?” - Victor Borge *** I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. - David Amram *** I like Beethoven, especially the poems. - Ringo Starr *** I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour. - Dave Mustaine *** I like referring to the saxophone and having a guitar lick instead. Same with the cymbals; having the cymbals and not playing cymbals. - Mike Gordon *** I like to think of us as Clearasil on the face of the nation. Jim Morrison would have said that if he was smart, but he's dead. - Lou Reed *** I like your opera. I think I will set it to music. - Ludwig van Beethoven *** I liked the bit about quarter to eleven. (on Debussy's "Dawn to Noon on the Sea") - Erik Satie *** I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch. - George Burns ***

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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire *** I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. - Richard Strauss *** I merely took the energy it takes to paint and wrote some blues. - Duke Ellington *** I never thought that much about my playing. I was adequate. - Roy Buchanan *** I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying "I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions." - Hugo Wolf *** I once served a steak to Janis Joplin at Max's Kansas City. She was quiet and very polite. She didn't eat her steak but left a five dollar tip. - Debbie Harry *** I once told this writer a story about how I met the guys in an elevator and found out we all had the same last name, so we decided to form a band. - Joey Ramone *** I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't. - Victor Borge *** I only know two tunes. One is 'Yankee Doodle,' and the other isn't. - Ulysses S. Grant ***

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I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart *** I practice when I'm loaded. - Zoot Sims *** I refuse to slap some stupid words on the stupid paper just so we have a stupid song finished. - Suzanne Vega *** I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder. - Gavin Bryars *** I sat down at the piano and my hands began to browse over the keys. Then something happened. I felt as though I could reach out and touch God. I found myself playing a melody, one I'd never heard or played before, and words came into my head -- they just seemed to fall into place... - Thomas A. Dorsey *** I sing like I feel. - Ella Fitzgerald *** I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is. - Aretha Franklin *** I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous. - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky *** I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer. - Johannes Brahms

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*** I spent 15 minutes writing 'Stand by Your Man,' and a lifetime defending it. - Tammy Wynette *** I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students. - Burt Bacharach *** I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns. - Ella Fitzgerald *** I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know. - James Brown *** I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music. - George Eliot *** I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time. - Bonnie Raitt *** I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. - Tony Bennet *** I think one thing that helped the sound change, it's a real subtle thing; it's just one switch on my bass, it has three positions, and I usually boost the mid-range frequency, I lowered the frequency that I boost, and that goes out to the sound system, too. - Mike Gordon ***

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I think that music has an endless life. - Anne Dudley *** I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. - Gerald Early *** I try to sit down and write a Rory Gallagher song, which generally happens to be quite bluesy. I try to find different issues, different themes and different topics that haven't been covered before...I've done songs in all the different styles...train blues, drinking blues, economic blues. But I try to find a slightly different angle on all these things. The music can be very traditional, but you can sort of creep into the future with the lyrics.. - Rory Gallagher *** I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the manmade sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. - Alfred Hitchcock *** I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music. - Elton John *** I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece. - Georges Bizet *** I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places. - Nick Cave *** I wish I would tell our audience that we don't hate them without sounding cheesy. - Kurt Cobain ***

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I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature. - David Amram *** I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it. - James Taylor *** I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling. - Elmer Bernstein *** I'd love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I'd also like just one more hit single. - Tiny Tim *** I'd rather be a musician than a rock star. - George Harrison *** I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five. - Mick Jagger *** I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it. - Nat King Cole *** I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go. - Mike Gordon ***

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I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me. - Richard Thompson *** I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be. - Ben Savage *** I'm interested in music, not in my image. If someone plays something fantastic, that I could never have thought of, it makes me happy to know it exists. - Ornette Coleman *** I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated. - James Brown *** I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers. I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues. - Johnny Winter *** I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer. - Leonard Bernstein *** I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either. - Robyn Hitchcock *** I'm not really a pianist. I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes. - Harold Budd *** I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date. - Mike Gordon ***

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I'm very fortunate to have a career that has lasted as long as it has. Did I think it would last this long? No way! - Barry White *** I've got huge admiration for prose writers because I just know that I'd be no good at it. I don't think I'd try to write a novel or a screenplay or be a poet even. When you're peddling ditties, it's a different thing. - Mark Knopfler *** I've never written anything when I've thought afterwards, 'Crumbs, I wish I'd never done that'; I've always tried to write music that is approachable and unpretentious. - Richard Rodney Bennett *** I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. - James Brown *** I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. - B. B. King *** I've written some poetry, but... songs have to be more poetic, and I've really gotten to this non-poetic sort of writing. - Mike Gordon *** I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch. - Count Basie *** If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about. - Aretha Franklin ***

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If an opera cannot be played by an organ grinder, it's not going to achieve immortality. - Sir Thomas Beecham *** If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel. - Buddy Holly *** If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard *** If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do...I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife. - Freddy Mercury *** If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer. - GG Allin *** If it wasn't for [pimps, prostitutes, hustlers, gangsters, and gamblers] there wouldn't be no jazz! They supported the club owners who bought the music. It wasn't the middle-class people who said 'Let's go hear Charlie Parker tonight.' - Betty Carter *** If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing. - La Monte Young *** If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it. - Sarah Caldwell *** If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera. - Sarah Caldwell ***

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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical, it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience. - John Cage *** If you have to ask, shame on you. (on what Jazz is) - Louis Armstrong *** If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune. - Count Basie *** If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but ponticello, and harmonics, and tremolos. If you take an oboe and play it, there's about one way you can make it sound: like an oboe. - John Corigliano *** If you want to write, do so. If you don't want to hold down a full time job in order to have the comfort to write, give up the idea of being a composer of concert music, unless you can learn to be happy in poverty, marry the rich, inherit the wealth, or otherwise fall into money. - Beth Anderson *** If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos. - Jon Bon Jovi *** If you would be singing like this two thousand years ago, people would have stoned you. - Simon Cowell *** If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning. - Simon Cowell ***

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In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance. - Franz Liszt *** In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. - David Amram *** In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves. - Luciano Berio *** In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves. - Luciano Berio *** In opera, there is always too much singing. - Claude Debussy *** In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of. - Robert Schumann *** In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar, Slavic or Jewish. - Franz Liszt *** In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers' gangs, he would be asked if he could sing. If he could he got the job. The singing of these working men set the rhythm for the work. - W. C. Handy ***

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In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques. - Art Linkletter *** Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words. - Franz Liszt *** It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes. - Mike Gordon *** It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music. - Ursula K. Le Guin *** It is also well worth your observation, that the grand contention with us, is, not who shall sing loudest; but who shall sing best. - William Billings *** It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. - Benjamin Britten *** It is extraordinary how potent cheap music is. - Noel Coward *** It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table. - Johannes Brahms ***

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It is not impossible that the future belongs to this 'traumverwirrten Katzenjammerstil' (nightmarish hangover style), a future which we therefore do not envy. (on Bruckner) - Eduard Hanslick *** It is proportion that beautifies everything. This whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it. - Orlando Gibbons *** It is quite untrue that British people don't appreciate music. They may not understand it but they absolutely love the noise it makes. - Sir Thomas Beecham *** It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice. - David Baker *** It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page. - Joan Baez *** It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there. - Frederick Loewe *** It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself. - J.S. Bach *** It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do. - Lena Horne ***

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It's not music, it's a disease. (on rock'n'roll) - Mitch Miller *** It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend. - Mike Gordon *** Jams sometimes turn into a really different sounding thing. Like the drum beat will change, or the chord progression will change-that sort of thing. Sometimes it will develop into something really specific that we've never played before. That's something that even jazz bands don't do too much. - Mike Gordon *** Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains. - Paul Whiteman *** Jazz is a white term used to define Black people. My music is Black classical music. - Nina Simone *** Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning. - B. B. King *** Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time. - Ornette Coleman *** Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. - John Philip Sousa *** John's just jealous because I'm the brains of the group. I've written all the songs, even from the beginning when I wasn't in the group. - Sid Vicious ***

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Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost. - Harold C. Schonberg *** Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. - Andres Segovia *** Led Zeppelin is just a bunch of stupid idiots who wrote cool riffs. - Chris Cornell *** Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out. - W. C. Handy *** Life without music would be a mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche *** Listen Edith, I know you're singing, you know you're singing, but the neighbors may think I'm torturing you. - Archie Bunker - Carroll O'Connor *** Lloyd Webber's music is everywhere but so is AIDS. - Malcolm Williamson *** Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love. - Hector Berlioz *** Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. - June Masters Bacher ***

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Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands—and all you can do is scratch it. (a woman cellist) - Sir Thomas Beecham *** Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis. - Liz Phair *** Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis. - Liz Phair *** Make sure everything you do you really like, because you have to sing it the rest of your life. - Gloria Estefan *** Man, I love that song. I think about it at least once a day. (on his hit "Achy Breaky Heart") - Billy Ray Cyrus *** Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray. - Curtis Mayfield *** Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us. - Anonymous *** Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs. I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it. - Earl King *** Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read. - Frank Zappa ***

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Mozart is sweet sunshine. - Antonin Dvorak *** Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what it's like to be Beethoven and Bach tells us what it's like to be the universe. - Douglas Adams *** Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour. - Gioacchino Antonio Rossini *** MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken! - Lewis Black *** Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. - Leonard Bernstein *** Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous. - Yehudi Menuhin *** Music does not have to be understood. It has to be listened to. - Hermann Scherchen *** Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt *** Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. - Victor Hugo ***

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Music fathoms the sky. - Charles Baudelaire *** Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything. - Plato *** Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years. - Gavin Bryars *** Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. - Lao Tzu *** Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was. - Nina Simone *** Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven *** Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion. - Jimi Hendrix *** Music is an outburst of the soul. - Frederick Delius *** Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection. - Alban Berg ***

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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions. - George Santayana *** Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. - John Lennon *** Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. - Igor Stravinsky *** Music is like making love: either all or nothing. - Isaac Stern *** Music is my religion. - Jimi Hendrix *** Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer. - Nellie Melba *** Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together. - Marvin Gaye *** Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine *** Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice. - Samuel Johnson ***

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Music is the universal language of mankind. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow *** Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence. - Robert Fripp *** Music is well said to be the speech of angels. - Thomas Carlyle *** Music should never be harmless. - Robbie Robertson *** Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul. - Anonymous *** Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second. - Maurice Ravel *** Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something. - Frank Zappa *** Musical comedies aren't written, they are re-written. - Steven Sondheim *** Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs. - Tori Amos ***

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My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail? - John Hiatt *** My dad taught me about music. He used to tap dance. - Ray Davies *** My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me. - Elliot Carter *** My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do. - Anne Dudley *** My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me of big teddy bears dancing around. - Leonard Slatkin *** My heyday is over, and another must take my place. The world wants something new. Others have ceded their places to us and we must cede ours to still others... I am more than happy to give mine to people of talent like Verdi. - Gaetano Donizetti *** My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky *** My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music. - Elliott Carter ***

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My own mystic bent leads me to believe that musical variations, collage, reiteration and process, or evolution, are beautiful. Life is worth living and beauty is worth making. - Beth Anderson *** My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. - Edith Sitwell *** My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly... - Johann Sebastian Bach *** Nearly all my longer compositions are based upon aspects and moods of extreme nature and their relation to human emotion. - Arnold Bax *** Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember. - Burt Bacharach *** Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies. - Irving Berlin *** Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart *** No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to. - Frank Zappa ***

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No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing. - W H Auden *** Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit. - Tom T. Hall *** Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts. - Barry Gibb *** Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues. - Count Basie *** Olivia Newton-John—Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland. - Minnie Riperton *** On matters of intonation and technicalities I am more than a martinet—I am a martinetissimo. - Leopold Stokowski *** Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. - Chet Atkins *** One can't judge Wagner's opera 'Lohengrin' after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time. - Gioacchino Antonio Rossini *** One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell. - John Zorn ***

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Only one music comes out of me. - Anthony Davis *** Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. - H. L. Mencken *** Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, sings. - Ed Gardner *** Oral musical traditions are rooted in assured and scrupulous faith. - Franz Liszt *** Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music. - Ian Hunter *** Parsifal is the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been running for three hours, you check your watch and it says 6:20. - David Randolph *** People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever. - Robert Schumann *** People like Arvo Part would not have been taken seriously 20 years ago. - Gavin Bryars *** Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent. - Jean Genet ***

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Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good. (on Richard Thompson) - David Byrne *** Playing 'Bop' is like Scrabble with all the vowels missing. - Duke Ellington *** Playing a concerto with Zubin [Mehta] is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove. - Isaac Stern *** Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have. - John Lee Hooker *** Probably the biggest bringdown in my life was being in a pop group and finding out just how much it was like everything we were supposed to be against. - Cass Elliot *** Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I performed at during those first tumultuous years of the armistice between World War I and World War II. The reason is very simple: I was armed. - George Antheil *** Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. - Bette Midler *** Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess! - Maurice Ravel ***

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Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career. - Alexander Borodin *** Rock'n'roll all goes back to R & B, but to me it's not very relevant. Kraftwerk is much more relevant. - Nick Rhodes *** Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. (when asked "Who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening'?") - Cole Porter *** Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. - Lionel Hampton *** She has a nice voice, but she looks a little bit too much like Eleanor Roosevelt. - Lawrence Welk *** Simple is the only way I can write. - Don Gibson *** Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. - Frederic Chopin *** Since in music we deal with notes, not words, with chords, with transitions, with color and expression, the musical meaning always based on those notes as written and nothing else - has to be divined. Therefore any musician, no matter how great an instrumentalist, who is not also an interpreter of a divinatory order, the way Furtw‫ن‬ngler was, or Fischer-Dieskau is, is somehow onesided, somehow without spiritual grandeur. - Claudio Arrau ***

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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning. - Aaron Copland *** Some kids in Italy call me 'Mama Jazz; I thought that was so cute. As long as they don't call me 'Grandma Jazz.' - Ella Fitzgerald *** Someday we may have as many followers as the harpsichord. - Eddie Condon *** Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing. - Cy Coleman *** Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it. - Hanns Eisler *** Sometimes I’d think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass. - John Coltrane *** Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that. - Andre Segovia *** Sometimes you know you find precious things in the creative process that you couldn't find out of it. - Arthur Berger ***

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Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration. - Johannes Brahms *** Sunshine can burn you, food can poison you, words can condemn you, pictures can insult you; music cannot punish—only bless. - Artur Schnabel *** Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. - Steve Martin *** That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are. - Elliott Carter *** The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees... - Andres Segovia *** The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. - Johannes Sebastian Bach *** The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. It is not a vessel into which the composer distills his soul drop by drop, but a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal. - Pierre Boulez *** The blues are the roots, and everything else are the fruits. - Willie Dixon ***

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The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations. - Franz Liszt *** The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event. - Iannis Xenakis *** The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. - Claude Debussy *** The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost. - Bennett Cerf *** The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. - Victor Borge *** The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest our declaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies. - Franz Liszt *** The first question I ask myself is Why is there music in this film at all? What's it doing here? Then your questions get more and more specific. For example, you decide one scene will have music and another one won't. Obviously you discuss that with the filmmaker, and there may be some disagreement. - Elmer Bernstein *** The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been that there was not much interest in rhythm. - Elliott Carter ***

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The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. - Ernest Newman *** The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice. - Andre Segovia *** The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a tooth pulled or something. - Merle Haggard *** The idea that beauty is revolutionary is a revelation to me...I've discovered the part of my brain that can't decode anything, can't add, can't work from verbalized concepts, but that does make melodies with pitch and rhythm...beauty is enough. - Beth Anderson *** The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it. - Donal Henahan *** The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world. - Leonard Bernstein *** The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has no problem learning to play the Mandolin. - Steve Goodman *** The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. - Erik Satie ***

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The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at. - Horace *** The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me. - Alberta Hunter *** The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides. - Artur Schnabel *** The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping. - Benjamin Britten *** The only thing better than singing is more singing. - Ella Fitzgerald *** The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge. - Cleveland Amory *** The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth. - Andre Segovia *** The Prelude to [Wagner's] 'Tristan und Isolde' reminds one of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel. - Eduard Hanslick *** The privilege of directing this magnificent consort of artists is such that my pleasure would be diminished if I accepted a fee. I would, however, gladly accept a decent cigar. - Thomas Beecham ***

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The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect. - Luciano Berio *** The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect. - Luciano Berio *** The soundtrack to 'Indecent Exposure' is a romantic mix of music that I know most women love to hear, so I never keep it far from me when women are nearby. - Fabio *** The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers, and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. - Giancarlo Menotti *** The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false. - Fiona Apple *** The way I see it, rock'n'roll is folk music. - Robert Plant *** The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No." - Aaron Copland *** The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough. - Andy Rooney ***

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The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player. - Mike Gordon *** There are more bad musicians than there is bad music. - Isaac Stern *** There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. - Frank Zappa *** There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. - Eugene Chadbourne *** There are no women composers, never have been, and possibly never will be. (when asked why only male composers appeared in his repertoire) - Thomas Beecham *** There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. - George Bernard Shaw *** There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between. - Sir Thomas Beecham *** There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer *** There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. - Pythagoras ***

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There is music in the beauty, and the silent note that cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we maintain the music of the spheres. - Sir Thomas Browne *** There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. - Arthur Honegger *** There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music. - George Eliot *** There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political. - Earle Brown *** There is no rest, there must be no rest for a fellow when he is successful. He has got to keep right on going... And don’t think that I am the product of luck or breaks or anything like that. I have worked hard ever since I came out of the University of Colorado. I have played the trombone in so many bands, I can’t count them all. - Glenn Miller *** There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating. - Frederick Delius *** There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control. - Aaron Copland *** There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar. Rock'n'roll will never die. - Dave Edmunds ***

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There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people. - Gavin Bryars *** There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself. - Elmer Bernstein *** There's no way we could play a country song as well as a country band or a Latin song as well as a Latin band. We could never expect to do that. We just keep doing what we do, what we know how to do. We sound like ourselves. - Mike Gordon *** There's people making babies to my music. That's nice. - Barry White *** These days, what isn't worth saying is sung. - Pierre Beaumarchais *** They should be shot. (on the Backstreet Boys) - Noel Gallagher *** Tipper and Al (Gore) came to a show the last time we were in Washington. They're nice people, a nice family. We made every effort not to frighten them. - Jerry Garcia *** To get your playing more forceful, hit the drums harder. - Keith Moon *** To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable. - Aaron Copland ***

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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. - Igor Stravinsky *** Too much counterpoint; what is worse, Protestant counterpoint. (of Johann Sebastian Bach) - Thomas Beecham *** Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also. - John Phillips *** True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today. - George Gershwin *** Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best. - Henry Van Dyke *** Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Mark Twain *** We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so. - B. B. King *** We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it. - Johannes Brahms *** We composers are at least as significant as the stars who make $14 million or $15 million. You just don't see us. - Michael Kamen ***

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We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip, may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency. - Mark Twain *** We did consider the name 'Beetles,' but Jerry [Allison] said, 'Aw, that's just a bug you'd want to step on,' so we immediately dropped that. - Niki Sullivan *** We just sort of provided the right thing at the right time. We come along with a very raw sort of music where everything was rather sweet. - Brian Jones *** We like this kind of music. Jazz is strictly for stay-at-homes. - Buddy Holly *** We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm. - Franz Liszt *** We'll take a five-minute break while I go give myself hell. - Antal Dorati *** We're playing at our own level of ability. - Dee Dee Ramone *** What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition. - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach *** What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line. - Earle Brown ***

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When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed. - Trent Reznor *** When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance - Victor Borge *** When I die, just keep playin' the records. - Jimi Hendrix *** When I heard him, I thought, if he can do that and get away with it, I can do it too. (on Sonny Bono) - Ian Hunter *** When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me. - Aaron Copland *** When I started to sing like myself — as opposed to imitating Nat Cole, which I had done for a while — when I started singing like Ray Charles, it had this spiritual and churchy, this religious or gospel sound. It had this holiness and preachy tone to it. It was very controversial. I got a lot of criticism for it. - Ray Charles *** When I studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger I had to go through up to eight parts of counterpoint. I learned all about how to do that. That sticks in your head and it has an effect on the way I think about music still although I don't write anything like that now. - Elliott Carter *** When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it. - James Brown ***

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When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way. - John Zorn *** When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. - Bob Hope *** When they called 'em rock'n'roll pioneers, they were talking about the music. But that pretty much described the living conditions, too. - Waylon Jennings *** When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously. - David Amram *** When you hear my records today, you hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard. - Pat Boone *** When you play music you discover a part of yourself that you never knew existed. - Bill Evans *** Where words fail, music speaks. - Hans Christian Andersen *** Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows. (on the "Hallelujah Chorus" of his "Messiah") - George Friideric Handel ***

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Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? - John Cage *** Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by VillaLobos? - Igor Stravinsky *** With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump. - Louis Jordan *** Without Elvis none of us could have made it. - Buddy Holly *** Without music, life is a journey through a desert. - Pat Conroy *** Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge as genius, and as much genius as knowledge. - Gioacchino Antonio Rossini *** Women's music is underrepresented. - Beth Anderson *** Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. - E.Y. Harburg *** Writing for the operatic stage led me to think about the concertante form as something that is essentially dramatic and, if I hadn't been through that process, I don't think my concertos would have been nearly as important to me. - Richard Rodney Bennett ***

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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century. - Gavin Bryars *** Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, stronger is music than death. - Franz Werfel *** You are the music while the music lasts. - T. S. Eliot *** You can cage the singer but not the song. - Harry Belafonte *** You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing? - Kahlil Gibran *** You don't need any brains to listen to music. - Luciano Pavarotti *** You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly. - Hank Williams *** You gotta hear this new box I got, it creates the most offensive noise ... (to Lester Bangs - Robert Quine *** You have Van Gogh's ear for music. - Artemus Ward ***

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You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work. - Hy Gardner *** You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. - Maurice Ravel *** You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen? - Victor Borge *** You're willing to pay him a thousand dollars a night just for singing? Why, you can get a phonograph record of Minnie the Moocher for 75 cents. And for a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie. (Night at the Opera) - Groucho Marx *** Your pianos travel with you. So does your manager. You have no time for girls. Your manager sees to it that no young predatory females get very far. - George Antheil *** [Madonna is] a living, breathing cash register. - Boy George ***

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Famous Nature Quotes
A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter. - Edward Abbey *** A nation that destroys it's soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. - Franklin D. Roosevelt *** Concrete is heavy; iron is hard--but the grass will prevail. - Edward Abbey *** Fortissimo at last! (Fortissimo at last!) - Gustav Mahler *** How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. - John Burroughs *** How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements. - From The Importance of Living (1937) - Lin Yutang *** How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! - Emily Dickinson ***

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However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words. - Ivan Turgenev *** I am at two with nature. - Woody Allen *** I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright *** I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving. - Edward Abbey *** I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature. - Cicero *** If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness. - Edward Abbey *** In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth. - Rachel Carson *** It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** It is not when he is working in his office but when he is lying idly on the sand that his soul utters, 'Life is beautiful.' - From The Importance of Living (1937) - Lin Yutang ***

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It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world — Nature — is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it. - Edward Abbey *** Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao Tzu *** Nature does nothing uselessly. - Aristotle *** Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it. - Eugene Delacroix *** Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow *** Nature is as wasteful of promising young men as she is of fish spawn. - Richard Hughes *** Nature is neutral. - Adlai Stevenson *** Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment. - R. Buckminster Fuller *** Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions. - Mary Webb *** The course of Nature is the art of God. - Edward Young ***

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The deeper we look into nature the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret, and we are all united to all this life. - Albert Schweitzer *** The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man. - Bliss Carman *** Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. - Dennis Gabor *** What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. - Edward Abbey *** When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder. - David Brower *** Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. - Edward Abbey *** You can't just let nature run wild. (on why he wanted officials to kill hundreds of wolves) - Walter J. Hickel ***

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Famous Patriotic Quotes
'Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.' - Edward Abbey *** A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. - Edward Abbey *** A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. - Bill Vaughan *** A steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. - George Canning *** I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience. - William Shakespeare *** If I have to lay an egg for my country, I'll do it. - Bob Hope *** It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country. (The Iliad) - Homer *** Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. - Adlai Stevenson ***

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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. - Bertrand Russell *** When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish. - Adlai Stevenson ***

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Famous Peace Quotes
All we are saying is give peace a chance. - John Lennon *** But while we all pray for peace, we do not always, as free citizens, support the policies that make for peace or reject those which do not. We want our own kind of peace, brought about in our own way. - Lester Pearson *** Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. - Douglas MacArthur *** God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. - C. S. Lewis *** I believe it is peace for our time . . . peace with honour. - Neville Chamberlain *** I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. - Helen Keller *** I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. - Steven Wright *** If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace. - Oswald Spengler ***

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If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace. - Oswald Spengler *** Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand! - Daniel Boone *** Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. - Baruch Spinoza *** Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family. - Kin Hubbard *** We make war that we may live in peace. - Aristotle *** When the power of love overcomes the love of power... the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix *** You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies. - Yitzhak Rabin ***

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Famous Poetry Quotes
A poem is never finished, only abandoned. - Paul Valery *** A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. - E. M. Forster *** A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. - Edmond de Goncourt *** A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. - Percy Bysshe Shelley *** Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. - Wilfred Owen *** All a poet can do today is warn. - Wilfred Owen *** Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry. - Charles Baudelaire *** Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. - Archibald MacLeish ***

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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. - A. E. Housman *** For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food. - Joyce Kilmer *** Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. - T. S. Eliot *** I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. - A. E. Housman *** I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world. - Russell Baker *** I have nothing to say. I am saying it, and that is poetry. - John Cage *** In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. - Paul Dirac *** Let us go and talk with the poets. - Joaquin Miller *** No bad man can be a good poet. - Boris Pasternak ***

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Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets. - Dudley Moore *** Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture. - Helen Hayes *** Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. - Richard Eberhart *** Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. - Novalis *** Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. - Richard Eberhart *** Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. - Allen Ginsberg *** Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. - Thomas Gray *** Poets are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts. - Archibald MacLeish *** Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. - Gilbert K. Chesterton ***

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Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. - Robert Penn Warren *** Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. - John Masefield *** Sir, I admit your gen'ral rule that every poet is a fool: but you yourself may serve to show it that every fool is not a poet. - Alexander Pope *** Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and a way of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers. - Laura Nyro *** The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. - Allen Ginsberg *** The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have; else they will never have better. - Harriet Monroe *** The phone rings and I curse. Literary editor. Seasonal verse. - Wendy Cope *** The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme. - Stephane Mallarme ***

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There is only beauty -- and it has only one perfect expression -- Poetry. All the rest is a lie -- except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. . . - Stephane Mallarme *** There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing. - John Cage *** There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. - John Ashbery *** To have great poets, there must be great audiences too. - Walt Whitman *** Very nice, though there are dull stretches. (on another writer's two-line poem) - Antoine de Rivarol *** When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little. - Stephen Spender *** Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. - Antonin Artaud *** You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. - John Ciardi ***

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You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words. - Stephane Mallarme *** You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you. - Joseph Joubert ***

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Famous Philosophy Quotes
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce *** All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain. - Epictetus *** Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. - Oliver Wendell Holmes *** He who accepts the unaltered philosophy of another is as ludicrous as he who dons his neighbor's hat, and infinitely more ridiculous. - Paulette Goddard *** I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. - Charles Schulz *** I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle *** I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine *** I maintain that today many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology. - Oswald Spengler ***

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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine. - Bertrand Russell *** I think, therefore Descartes exists. - Saul Steinberg *** I think; therefore I am. - Rene Descartes *** I took a test in Existentialism. I left all the answers blank and got 100. - Woody Allen *** I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy. (Clown Prince of American Humor, 1975) - Woody Allen *** In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. - Erich Fromm *** 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 Zappa *** Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change! - Jimmy Swaggart *** Philosophy and Religion—what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps? - William Golding ***

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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. - Ludwig Wittgenstein *** Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. - Henry Adams *** The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life. - John Chrysostom *** The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. - Ludwig Wittgenstein *** The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. - Bertrand Russell *** There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language. - Henri Bergson *** There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker. - Charles Schulz *** This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. - Bertrand Russell *** To make abstractions hold in reality is to destroy reality. (Abstraktionen in der Wirklichkeit geltend machen, hei‫ك‬t Wirklichkeit zerstِ en.) r - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ***

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What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? - Woody Allen *** What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. (Was vernünftig ist, das ist Wirklich; und was wirklich ist, das ist vernünftig.) - The Philosophy of Right - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel *** When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense - Edward Abbey *** When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy. - David Cronenberg *** Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why. - Eric Gill *** You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings. - Catherine the Great ***

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Famous Political Quotes
"[I propose to create a] Commission on Erections and Mounting. - Richard M. Daley *** A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants. - Alben W. Barkley *** A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H. L. Mencken *** A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. - Texas Guinan *** A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. - David Lloyd George *** A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation. - James Freeman Clarke *** A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals. (NY Times, 20 Oct 69) - Spiro Agnew *** An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. - T. S. Eliot *** An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron ***

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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill *** As far as me and the vice presidency is concerned ... I spent a number of years in a North Vietnamese prison camp in the dark and (was) fed scraps, and I don't know why I would want to do that all over again -- 2004 July 18, Rally in San Diego, on not wishing to replace VP Dick Cheney - John McCain *** As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. - Karl Rove *** Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. - Bob Inglis *** Being First Lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world. - Pat Nixon *** Being lectured by the president on fiscal responsibility is a little bit like Tony Soprano talking to me about law and order in this country. - John Kerry *** Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. - Karl Rove *** Dear Jack. Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. (in a letter to his son during the 1960 presidential campaign) - Joseph P. Kennedy ***

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Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour. - Edward M. Kennedy *** Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. - Will Rogers *** Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign. - Milton Berle *** For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers. - Gilbert K. Chesterton *** Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - P. J. ORourke *** Half a truth is better than no politics. - Gilbert K. Chesterton *** Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals. - Karl Rove *** He is going around the country stirring up apathy. (on Harold Wilson) - William Whitelaw ***

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He is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. - Adlai Stevenson *** He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw *** He who slings mud generally loses ground. - Adlai Stevenson *** He's a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off. (About Gerald Ford) - Lyndon Baines Johnson *** Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five electoral votes. The state of denial has none. I like my chances. - John Kerry *** I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it. - John Kerry *** I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. - Margaret Thatcher *** I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. - Margaret Thatcher ***

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I am persuaded that in the case of elected officials, the overwhelming temptation is to conclude that it is more important for your constituents that you be reelected than that you deal honestly with them. - James L. Buckley *** I didn't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs. (when asked a political question at a "Just Say No" rally) - Nancy Reagan *** I do have certain feelings. My feeling is that whoever is in charge, I want him out. (on his political views) - Lewis Black *** I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. - Horace Walpole *** I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. - George Bush *** I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle *** I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious in order to advance the political career of my husband. - Pat Nixon *** I must say the Senator's victory in Wisconsin was a triumph for democracy. It proves that a millionaire has just as good a chance as anyone else. - Bob Hope ***

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I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. - Newt Gingrich *** I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power. - Jeffrey Archer *** I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system. - Mary Robinson *** I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. - Adlai Stevenson *** I would describe a demagogue as a politician who don't keep his promises. On that basis, I'm the first man to have power in Loozyana who ain't a demagogue. I kept every promise I ever made to the people of Loozyana. None of these ex's and belly achers that have been fightin' me down there ever kept his promises when he was in office. It was an unheard of thing in Loozyana until Huey P. Long got in. - Huey Long *** I would not have gotten [to Congress] if I had not been as persistent as a hound dog worrying a bone. - Gracie Pfost *** I would rather be beaten and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog. - Davy Crockett *** I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! - Will Rogers ***

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I'm not a natural leader. I'm too intellectual; I'm too abstract; I think too much. - Newt Gingrich *** I'm not a politician and my other habits are good. - Artemus Ward *** Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin *** If elected, I will win. - Pat Paulsen *** If Governor Fields is right, I am going to stand by him because he is right. If he is wrong, I am going to stand by him because he is a Democrat. - Augustus O. Stanley *** If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? - Abraham Lincoln *** If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as "candle making industry threatened". - Newt Gingrich *** If you can't convince them, confuse them. - Harry S. Truman *** If you liberals keep gettin' your way - we're all gonna hear one big loud flush. The sound of the U.S. of A. goin' straight down the toilet. - Archie Bunker - Carroll O'Connor ***

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If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. - Harry S. Truman *** If you want to be loved by everyone, don't go into politics. - Teresa Heinz Kerry *** In Mexico, an air conditioner is called a 'politician,' because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well. - Len Deighton *** In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in 12 years, we'll be voting for plants. - Lewis Black *** In politics nothing is contemptible. - Jean-Baptiste Colbert *** In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap. - Napoleon Bonaparte *** In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight. - Joseph Chamberlain *** In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. - George Will *** In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. (San Diego, 11 Sept 1970) - Spiro Agnew ***

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In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours. - Milton Berle *** It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job. (on the US presidency) - Erma Bombeck *** It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. - C. Northcote Parkinson *** It is terrible to contemplete how few politicians are hanged. - Gilbert K. Chesterton *** It's our fault. We should have given him better parts. - Jack Warner *** It's the most important decision I've had to make since 1978 when I decided to get a bikini wax. [On his running for California Governor] - Arnold Schwarzenegger *** Latins for Republicans. It's like roaches for Raid. - John Leguizamo *** Let them impeach, and be damned! - Andrew Johnson *** Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle ***

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Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament. - Jerry Hall *** My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. - Harry S. Truman *** My definition of a redundancy is an air bag in a politician's car. - Larry Hagman *** Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm. - Frank Dane *** No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life. - Thomas E. Dewey *** Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. - Kin Hubbard *** Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. - Bob Edwards *** Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians. - David Brinkley *** On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper—all your choices should be so easy. - Sandra Bernhard ***

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One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention. - Arnold Schwarzenegger *** One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. - Donald Trump *** One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato *** One thing I can say about George...he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring. - Barbara Bush *** People say I steal. Well, all politicians steal. I steal. But a lot of what I stole has spilled over in no-toll bridges, hospitals . . . and to build this university. -- speech at Louisiana State University - Huey Long *** People tell me that Senator Edwards got picked for his good looks, his sex appeal, and his great hair. I say to them, 'How do you think I got the job? - Dick Cheney *** Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river. - Nikita Khrushchev *** Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living. - P. J. O'Rourke ***

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Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. - George Will *** Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is. - Margaret Cho *** Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public. - George McGovern *** Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan *** Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. - Ronald Reagan *** Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. - Lester Pearson *** Politics makes estranged bedfellows. - Goodman Ace *** Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. - Henry Adams ***

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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. - Ambrose Bierce *** Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick. - William Howard Taft *** Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Adams *** Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote. - Emmylou Harris *** Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure. - Pat Nixon *** Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. (During 1980 presidential campaign) - Ronald Reagan *** Run for office? No. I've slept with too many women, I've done too many drugs, and I've been to too many parties. - George Clooney *** Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. - Charles de Gaulle *** Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas. - Davy Crockett ***

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Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. - Kin Hubbard *** Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me. - Karl Rove *** The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some. (Parliament of Whores, 1991) - P. J. O'Rourke *** The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. - Konrad Adenauer *** The best reason I can think of for not running for president of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. - Adlai Stevenson *** The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself. - James L. Buckley *** The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. - P.J. O'Rourke *** The first Presidential debate was down in Florida. Residents spent all day putting plywood on their televisions. - David Letterman ***

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The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee. - Roy Acuff *** The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. - Adlai Stevenson *** The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. - Douglas Hogg *** The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. - William Westmoreland *** The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed. - Claude Pepper *** The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him. - Ernest Bevin *** The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the neck down. - Huey Long *** The only people who say worse things about politicians that reporters do are other politicians. - Andy Rooney ***

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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. - Will Durant *** The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - George Stephanopoulos *** The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas. - Lewis Black *** The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Senator Long has an intellect. - Harold L. Ickes *** The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. - Bill Vaughan *** The wind doesn't bother me. I'm in the US Senate. - Bob Dole *** There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through. - John Gunther *** There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth—their lips move. - Felicity Kendall *** There ought to be one day -- just one -- where there is open season on senators. - Will Rogers ***

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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers *** This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it. - David Brinkley *** To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles. - Anonymus *** To those critics who are so pessimistic about our country, I say: Don't be economic girly men. (2004 Republican National Convention, August 31, 2004) - Arnold Schwarzenegger *** To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States. - George W. Bush *** Today, the L.A. Times accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of groping six women. I'm telling you, this guy is presidential material. - David Letterman *** War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means. - Carl von Clausewitz *** We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop *** We lost everything. We even won our own constituency. - Maryon Pearson ***

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We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is. - Adlai Stevenson *** We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. - Kin Hubbard *** We're half the people; we should be half the Congress. - Jeannette Rankin *** What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes. - James L. Buckley *** When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it. - Gilbert K. Chesterton *** When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. - Clarence Darrow *** When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot!" (2004 Republican National Convention, August 31, 2004) - Arnold Schwarzenegger *** Why am I running for president? Well, my wife, Cindy, says it is because I sustained several severe blows to the head in prison camp. - John McCain *** You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. - Mario Cuomo ***

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You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on. -- (spoken at a Washington Dinner, March 2001) - George W. Bush *** You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle ***

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Famous Religion Quotes
A moment of silence is not inherently religious. - Sandra Day O'Connor *** All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go. - Charles_Cotton *** All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way. - Epictetus *** By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life. - James George Frazer *** Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men. - Novalis *** Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. - Arthur Wellesley *** Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car. - Garrison Keillor *** He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic. - Kingsley Amis *** I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality. - Bob Hope ***

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I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe. - Vince Vaughn *** I would give nothing for that man's religion whose very dog and cat are not the better for it. - Rowland Hill *** I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art. - Mary Baker Eddy *** If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy. - Marquis de Lafayette *** In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. - Robert Runcie *** It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. - Sandra Day O'Connor *** Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. - Gilbert K. Chesterton *** Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it. - Charles Caleb Colton *** Music is my religion. - Jimi Hendrix ***

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No amount of repetition of historical errors in judicial opinions can make the errors true. The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned. [Dissenting Opinion in Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)] - William Rehnquist *** Philosophy and Religion—what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps? - William Golding *** Pound notes are the best religion in the world. - Brendan Behan *** Religion is induced insanity. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair *** Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. - Franz Werfel *** Religion is the opium of the masses. - Karl Marx *** Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. - Napoleon Bonaparte *** Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage. - Dennis Potter *** The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell. - Saint Augustine ***

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The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. - Douglas Hogg *** The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals. - Arthur Wellesley *** The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith. - James Anthony Froude *** The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. - Lorraine Hansberry *** The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. - Edward Gibbon *** There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. - E. M. Forster *** To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself. - Kathe Kollwitz ***

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Famous Science Quotes
'Ex ovo omnia.' Everything from an egg. - William Harvey *** A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. - Jean Rostand *** A few months in the laboratory can save a few hours in the library. - Westheimer's Law *** A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground. - Saint Thomas Aquinas *** A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them. - Carl Linnaeus *** A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it. - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi *** An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out. - Max Planck *** An object at rest will be in the wrong place. - Gerrold's Second Law of Infernal Dynamics ***

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An object in motion will be heading in the wrong direction. - Gerrold's First Law of Infernal Dynamics *** And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. - Tycho Brahe *** Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Clarke's Third Law *** Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths. - Bertrand Russell *** Biology has at least 50 more interesting years. - James D. Watson *** Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded. - Tim Allen *** Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God. - Maria Mitchell *** Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, "with both eyes open." - Nicolas Copernicus ***

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I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. - Marie Curie *** I am tired of all this thing called science here....We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped. (on the Smithsonian Institution) - Simon Cameron *** I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei *** If an experiment works, something has gone wrong. - Finagle's First Law *** In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake. - Finagle's Third Law *** In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. - Paul Dirac *** In science we are really good at disproving things and are very poor at proving things. Theories like the Theory of Relativity go on and on because no one can think of anything better. - Richard Zayre *** In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. - Amy Lowell ***

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In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window. - Rodney Dangerfield *** In the year of 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water. - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek *** It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. - Henrik Ibsen *** It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus. - Carl Linnaeus *** Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science. - Laurence Sterne *** Leave the atom alone. - E. Y. Harburg *** Let no one expect anything of certainty from astronomy, lest if anyone take as true that which has been constructed for another use, he go away...bigger fool than when he came to it. - Nicholas Copernicus *** My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. - Steven Wright *** No experiment is reproducible. - Wyszowski's Law ***

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No matter what the experiment's result, there will always be someone eager to: (a) misinterpret it. (b) fake it. or (c) believe it supports his own pet theory. - Finagle's Second Law *** Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse. - Finagle's Fourth Law *** One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. - James D. Watson *** Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. - Martin Luther King Jr. *** Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe *** Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific. - Eric Gill *** Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. - Arthur Eddington *** Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - Immanuel Kant *** Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination. - Bertrand Russell ***

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Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. - Wilhelm Reich *** Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity. - Arthur Koestler *** Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter. - Dave Barry *** That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. - Edward Abbey *** The chance of the bread falling with the butter side down is directly proportional to the value of the carpet. - Jennings' Corollary to the Law of Selective Gravity *** The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind. - Manly Hall *** The first pull on the cord ALWAYS sends the drapes in the wrong direction. - Boyle's Other Law *** The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible. - Clarke's Second Law *** The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow. - Paul Ehrlich ***

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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. - Mark Russell *** The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith. - James Anthony Froude *** The theory of relativity is just as unacceptable to me as, say, the existence of the atom or other such dogmas. - Ernst Mach *** There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth. - Marie Curie *** We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is a participatory universe. - John Archibald Wheeler *** We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. - Wernher von Braun *** We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. - Maria Mitchell *** We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. - Marie Curie ***

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What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. - Jacques Cousteau *** Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. - Amelia Barr *** When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. - Clarke's First Law *** When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes. - W. H. Auden *** When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests. - Maria Mitchell *** Whenever a system becomes completely defined, someone discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition. - Brooke's Law ***

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Famous Sports Quotes
"[O. J. has] an uncanny instinct for sensing when to make the move, when to make the cut. He can kill you with a headfake, he can kill you with the swiftness of his legs and the ability to be in a direction at any single second. He also kills you with his variation of speed... (on some of the ways O. J. Simpson can kill) - Howard Cosell *** Abbott: Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. Costello: That's what I want to find out. - Lou Costello *** All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged. - Spiro Agnew *** And the line up for the final of the Women's 400 metres hurdles includes three Russians, two East Germans, a Pole, a Swede and a Frenchman. - David Coleman *** And there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class. - David Coleman *** Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. - Erma Bombeck *** He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62. - David Coleman ***

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Here stands before you a Negro woman, raised in Harlem, who went on to become a tennis player . . . and finally wind up being a world champion, in fact, the first black woman champion of this world. - Althea Gibson *** I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust 'em. - Jim Valvano *** I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of a hill. - Erma Bombeck *** I don't remember the first time I skated on ice, I was too young. I do remember falling in love with that wind-in-my-face feeling while speed skating. - Bonnie Blair *** I don’t create controversies. They’re there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention. - Charles Barkley *** Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. - Michael Jordan *** My boy, get in there and play like you did in the last game. I've got five dollars bet on the other team. (Horse Feathers) - Groucho Marx *** Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling. - Gabrielle Reece ***

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Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. - Frank Gifford *** Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentleman's game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts. - Henry Blaha *** Sports is the toy department of human life. - Howard Cosell *** Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. - Don Schula *** That's the fastest time ever run - but it's not as fast as the world record. - David Coleman *** The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch, and one on the throttle. - Bob Varsha *** The other teams could make trouble for us if they win. - Yogi Berra *** The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time. - David Coleman *** The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game. - Bill Shankly ***

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This is a tough game. There are times when you've got to play hurt, when you've got to block out the pain. - Shaquille O'Neal *** We don't need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do. - Charles Barkley *** We estimate, and this isn't an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind. - David Coleman *** We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. - Jason Kidd *** Years ago, in the days of the Greeks, wars were postponed to make room for the Olympic Games. In modern times, the Games have been postponed twice -- to make room for wars. - Robert Mathias ***

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Famous Shopping Quotes
If you change lines, the one you just left will start to move faster than the one you are now in. - O'Brian's Law *** In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear. - Julia Child *** People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.' - Sinclair Lewis *** The other line moves faster. - Etorre's Observation *** Wal-mart... do they like make walls there? - Paris Hilton *** We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops. - Henny Youngman *** We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls. -- (Neither Here Nor There, 1991) - Bill Bryson ***

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Famous Success Quotes
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent. - Logan Pearsall Smith *** A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. - Albert Schweitzer *** A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. - David Brinkley *** Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides *** Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. - Abraham Lincoln *** Always imitate the behavior of winners when you lose. - Anonymous *** Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success. - Thomas A. Edison *** Be different, stand out, and work your butt off. - Reba McEntire ***

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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do. - Napoleon Hill *** Behind every successful man there is a surprised woman. - Maryon Pearson *** Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. - Norman Vincent Peale *** Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. - Mario Andretti *** Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. - Dale Carnegie *** Don’t improve it into a flop! - Samuel Goldwyn's *** Eighty percent of success is showing up. - Woody Allen *** Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. - Dale Carnegie ***

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For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. - Ethel Barrymore *** For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school. - Oprah Winfrey *** For success, attitude is equally as important as ability. - Harry F. Banks *** Give me a couple of years, and I’ll make that actress an overnight success. - Samuel Goldwyn *** High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. - Charles Kettering *** Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases. - John W. Raper *** How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver *** I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. - Earl Warren *** I attribute my success to this—I never gave or took any excuse. - Florence Nightingale ***

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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure, which is – try to please everybody. - Herbert Bayard Swope *** I certainly hear the Trombones Unlimited version of 'Daydream' in a lot of elevators. - John Sebastian *** I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby *** I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. - George Burns *** I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability. - Harry Caray *** I've been lucky enough to win an Oscar, write a bestseller... my other dream would be to have a painting in the Louvre. The only way that's going to happen is if I paint a dirty one on the wall of the gentlemen's lavatory. - David Niven *** I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing. - Art Linkletter *** If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you. - Anonymous *** If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place. - Cicero ***

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If you want to zoom down the expert slope tomorrow, you have to fall down the bunny slope today. - Cynthia Copeland Lewis *** It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail. - Peter Marshall *** It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt *** It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. - Aristotle *** I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself. - Margaret Cho *** Let us be thankful for fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. - Mark Twain *** Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. - Jim Backus *** Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories. - Ralph Waldo Emerson ***

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Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there. - Will Smith *** Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. - Agatha Christie *** Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. - William Lamb Melbourne *** No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start. - Larry McMurtry *** Nothing recedes like success. - Walter Winchell *** Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions. - Lao Tzu *** Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. - Andre Malraux *** One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. - Arthur Ashe ***

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One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it. - Elmer Bernstein *** Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. - Robert F. Kennedy *** Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. - Lao Tzu *** Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success. - L. Ron Hubbard *** Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna — or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out. - Barbara Walters *** Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. - Sloan Wilson *** Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within. - Brad Pitt *** Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral. - Rosalind Russell ***

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Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.' - Margaret Cho *** Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall! - Jonathan Taylor Thomas *** Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. - Earl Wilson *** Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. - Donald Rumsfeld *** Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. - Henry David Thoreau *** Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. - Andrew Jackson *** The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. - Michael Korda *** The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind. - General Joseph W. Stilwell *** The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year. - John Foster Dulles ***

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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree. - Alexander Graham Bell *** The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. - Cecil B. DeMille *** The road to success is always under construction. - Arnold Palmer *** The secret of getting ahead is getting started. - Agatha Christie *** The secret of success is the consistency to pursue. - Harry F. Banks *** The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis *** The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me. - Howard Nemerov *** The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do. - Roy L. Smith ***

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The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous. - From The Importance of Living (1937) - Lin Yutang *** The three signs of great men are -- generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. - Otto von Bismarck *** The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. - Irving Berlin *** The way to succeed is to double your failure rate. - Thomas John Watson *** The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you. - Bette Midler *** There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last. - Jules Renard *** There is always room at the top. - Daniel Webster *** There is no rest, there must be no rest for a fellow when he is successful. He has got to keep right on going... And don’t think that I am the product of luck or breaks or anything like that. I have worked hard ever since I came out of the University of Colorado. I have played the trombone in so many bands, I can’t count them all. - Glenn Miller *** There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? - Kin Hubbard ***

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To know how to wait is the great secret of success. - Joseph Marie de Maistre *** To succeed, one must posses an effective combination of ability, ambition, courage, drive, hard work, integrity, and loyalty. - Harry F. Banks *** Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. - Albert Einstein *** Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower *** When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade. - Dale Carnegie *** Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. - Henry Ford *** You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. - Beverly Sills ***

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Famous Teacher Quotes
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. - Henry Adams *** A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. - Wallace Stegner *** A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. - Horace Mann *** Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. - Lao Tzu *** He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master. - Ben Jonson *** I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs. - Don Herold *** I touch the future. I teach. - Christa McAuliffe *** Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives. - Andy Rooney ***

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Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. - Bertrand Russell *** Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years. - Gracie Allen *** The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. - C. S. Lewis *** The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies. If a woman, she may follow the example of one sweet-faced tranquil girl who went out in the yard and gnawed a post. - William Lyon Phelps *** Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- teach. - H. L. Mencken *** To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice. - Ellen Glasgow *** While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach. - Mary Church Terrell ***

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Famous Technology Quotes
Any product cut to length will be too short. - Klipstein's Observation *** Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Clarke's Third Law *** Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke *** High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring. - Edward Abbey *** If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery. - Michael Harrington *** If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today. - John Sculley *** In comparison with the industrial age, the information era is at the steam engine stage. By the time information systems reach jet-plane status, we will focus on utility over fads, triple our productivity, use our computers as naturally and easily as we now use our cars... - Michael L. Dertouzos ***

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In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood. - Edward Abbey *** It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein *** Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. - Pope Paul VI *** The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillincuring, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser. - Malcolm Muggeridge *** The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday. - Dennis Gabor *** There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling, and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. - Georges Pompidou *** Tolerances will accumulate unidirectionally toward maximum difficulty of assembly. - Klipstein's Law ***

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Famous Time Quotes
A loafer always has the correct time. - Kin Hubbard *** A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. - Segal's Law *** All great achievements require time. - Maya Angelou *** But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell *** Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin *** I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year. - Victor Borge *** I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words. - Ellen DeGeneres *** I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. - William Shakespeare ***

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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. - Bernard Berenson *** I've been on a calendar, but never on time. - Marilyn Monroe *** If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. - Anonymous *** In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. - Osbert Sitwell *** It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account. - Hofstadter's Law *** Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. - Marcus Aurelius Antonius *** No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters. - George Eliot *** The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life. -- (Sometimes a Little Brain Damage Can Help, 1984) - George Carlin *** The days of the digital watch are numbered. - Tom Stoppard ***

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The obscurest epoch is to-day. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. - Bertrand Russell *** There's time enough, but none to spare. - Charles W. Chesnutt *** Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre *** Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty. - Robert Frost *** Time as he grows old teaches all things. - Aeschylus *** Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. - Aristotle *** Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. - Groucho Marx *** Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. - Hector Berlioz *** Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams ***

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Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. - John Randolph *** Time is bunk. - Douglas Adams *** Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. - Woody Allen *** Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg *** Time is the only critic without ambition. - John Steinbeck *** Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. - Peter F. Drucker *** Time is what prevents everything from happening at once. - John Archibald Wheeler *** Time may be a great healer, but it's also a lousy beautician. - Anonymous *** Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. - Ivan Turgenev *** Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks. - Euripides ***

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Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give. - Amy Lowell *** Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die. - Thomas Campion *** Time's fun when you're having flies. (Kermit the Frog) - Jim Henson *** When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. - Marcel Achard *** Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered? - Woody Allen *** Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late. - Mike Tyson *** You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money. When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life. I'd like to thank you for giving me a part of your life tonight. - Wayne Newton *** You know, sometimes, when they say you are ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing. - George McGovern *** You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing. - George McGovern ***

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Famous Truth Quotes
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Arthur Conan Doyle *** A belief is not true because it is useful. - Henri Frederic Amiel *** A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. - Pearl S. Buck *** A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. - John Calvin *** A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. - Thomas Mann *** A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is just putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain *** A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods. - Maurice Maeterlinck *** All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit. - Thomas Aquinas ***

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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 *** All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. - Galileo Galilei *** An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie. - Aldous Huxley *** Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said. - Mel Brooks *** Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide *** Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails. - Clarence Darrow *** Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true. - Albert Schweitzer *** Facts are the enemy of truth. (Don Quixote) - Miguel de Cervantes *** Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind. - Jean Rostand ***

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Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth. - George Herbert *** Get the facts first. You can distort them later. - Mark Twain *** Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations. - Aldous Huxley *** Half a truth is better than no politics. - Gilbert K. Chesterton *** He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it. - Henry George *** I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts. - Abraham Lincoln *** I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. - Georges Bataille *** I can prove anything by statistics except the truth. - George Canning *** I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. - Harry S. Truman ***

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I never truckled; I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. By God, I told them the truth. - Frank Norris *** If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. - Albert Einstein *** If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. - C. S. Lewis *** If you love the truth, you'll trust it-that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run. - Abraham Maslow *** If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way. - Emile Zola *** If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. - Mark Twain *** If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. - Pietro Aretino *** If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Rene Descartes *** In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. - Paul Eldridge ***

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In war, truth is the first casualty. - Aeschylus *** It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. - Jerome K. Jerome *** It is unfortunate, considering enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. - Arthur Balfour *** It would be a better world if everyone in it knew all the truth about everything. - Andy Rooney *** Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. - Aristotle *** Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices. - Remy de Gourmont *** Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. - Barbara Kingsolver *** Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth. - James Russell Lowell *** Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Sir Winston Churchill ***

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Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story. - Margaret Thatcher *** One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways. - Karl Menninger *** Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. - Wallace Stevens *** Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. - Aristotle *** Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. - Oliver Wendell Holmes *** Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. - Euripides *** Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries. - Henry Wotton *** The first casualty of war is truth. - Hiram Johnson *** The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr ***

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The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. - Frank Norris *** The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it. - Remy de Gourmont *** The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright *** The truth is not always the same as the majority decision. - Pope John Paul *** The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments. - Annie Sullivan *** The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it. - Emile Zola *** The truth needs so little rehearsal. - Barbara Kingsolver *** The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. - James A. Garfield *** The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. - Adolph Hitler ***

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The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth. - William O. Douglas *** There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange. - Daniel Webster *** There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. - Charles Dickens *** To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute. - Aristotle *** Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains. - Carter G. Woodson *** Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. - Johann von Schiller *** Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time. - Frank Norris *** Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is boring without it. - Pearl S. Buck *** Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. - Elvis Presley ***

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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting. - William Randolph Hearst *** Truth is sacred and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it. - Gilbert K. Chesterton *** Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it. - Emily Dickinson *** Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton *** Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it. - Claude Adrien Helvetius *** Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. *** Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. - James Russell Lowell *** Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. - Gwendolyn Brooks *** We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche *** We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda, it is a form of truth. - John F. Kennedy ***

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When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain *** Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is—it is her shadow. - Philip James Bailey *** Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. - Aldous Huxley *** You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln *** You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert K. Chesterton *** You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. - You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to f ***

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Famous War Quotes
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy. - Aldous Huxley *** A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. - Golda Meir *** A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. - Sun Tzu *** A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic alldestroying blow. - Adolf Hitler *** Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. - Wilfred Owen *** After each war there is a little less democracy to save. - Brooks Atkinson *** Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy if possible. - Stonewall Jackson ***

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Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate. - Sun Tzu *** Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms: But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms! - Thomas Hood *** Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything. - Nikita Khrushchev *** But I have seen the science I worshipped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. - Charles Lindbergh *** By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . . - Janet Flanner *** Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. - Douglas MacArthur *** Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior. - Carl von Clausewitz *** Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession. - Julia Ward Howe ***

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He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray. (The Iliad) - Homer *** How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? - Lao Tzu *** How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing. - Neville Chamberlain *** How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started -- that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed. - Adolf Hitler *** I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable. - Pamela Hansford Johnson *** I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves. - David Low *** I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes. - Ernest Hemingway *** I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies. - Sheryl Crow ***

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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. - Edmund Burke *** I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. - George McGovern *** I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam. - Benjamin Spock *** In bygone days, commanders were taught that when in doubt, they should march their troops towards the sound of gunfire. I intend to march my troops towards the sound of gunfire. - Jo Grimond *** In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. - Thomas Aquinas *** In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. - Joseph Stalin *** In war there is no substitute for victory. - Douglas MacArthur *** In war, truth is the first casualty. - Aeschylus *** It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals. (The Iliad) - Homer ***

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It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger. - Dwight D. Eisenhower *** It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. - Douglas MacArthur *** It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do. - Benito Mussolini *** It is not the business of generals to shoot one another. - Arthur Wellesley *** It takes fifteen thousand casualties to train a major-general. - Ferdinand Foch *** May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! - Daniel Boone *** Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity. - William Manchester *** Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women from laughing at them. - John Fowles ***

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Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. - Tony Blair *** Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War) - Paul Harvey *** My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel. - Roseanne Barr *** No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic. - A. J. P. Taylor *** No war is inevitable until it breaks out. - A. J. P. Taylor *** One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. - Agatha Christie *** Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will. - James Monroe *** The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting. - Sun Tzu *** The first casualty of war is truth. - Hiram Johnson ***

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The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars. - William Westmoreland *** The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. - Nikita Khrushchev *** The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - George S. Patton *** The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully. - Charles Evans Hughes *** The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. - George Orwell *** The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it. - John Randolph *** The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. - Edward Abbey *** The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. - Harry Emerson Fosdick *** The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage. - Hirohito *** The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill. - Arthur Wellesley ***

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There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship. There is the face of fear. Above all, there is love of country. - Barbara Boxer *** There are no warlike peoples—just warlike leaders. - Ralph Johnson Bunche *** There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. - Andrew Bonar Law *** There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war. - Ernest Bevin *** They are a lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war. - Stanley Baldwin *** To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? - W. H. Auden *** Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. - Sun Tzu *** Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. - William Westmoreland ***

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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. - Benito Mussolini *** War is a profane thing. - Norman Schwarzkopf *** War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means. - Carl von Clausewitz *** War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. - Lewis Mumford *** War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace. - Benito Mussolini *** War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. - Jimmy Carter *** War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals. - Charles Evans Hughes *** We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war. - Condoleezza Rice *** We make war that we may live in peace. - Aristotle ***

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We must take the battle to the enemy, disrupt his plans and confront the worst threats before they emerge. - George W. Bush *** We sent men with rifles into Afghanistan and Iraq and kept our best weapons in their silos. We're standing there dying, daring to do nothing decisive because we've declared ourselves to be better than our terrorist enemies--more moral, more civilized. Our image is at stake, we insist. But we didn't come this far because we're made of sugar candy. Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and across this continent by giving smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans. That was biological warfare. And we used every other weapon we could get our hands on to grab this land from whomever. And we grew prosperous. And yes, we greased the skids with the sweat of slaves. So it goes with most great nation-states, which-feeling guilty about their savage pasts--eventually civilize themselves out of business and wind up invaded and ultimately dominated by the lean, hungry up-and-coming who are not made of sugar candy. -June 23rd 2005 - Paul Harvey *** We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will. - Neville Chamberlain *** When I take action, I'm not going to fire a 2 million dollar missile at a 10 dollar empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive. -- (Newsweek, Sep 24, 2001) - George W. Bush *** When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them? - Arthur Hugh Clough ***

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Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting. - Janet Flanner *** Years ago, in the days of the Greeks, wars were postponed to make room for the Olympic Games. In modern times, the Games have been postponed twice -- to make room for wars. - Robert Mathias *** Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. - Franklin D. Roosevelt *** You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. - Jeannette Rankin *** You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war. - Napoleon Bonaparte ***

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Famous Wisdom Quotes
A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable. - Richard E. Byrd *** A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. - Jeremy Collier *** A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice. - Bill Cosby *** Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides *** Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. - Anne Bradstreet *** Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. - Carl Sandburg *** Be quick to learn and wise to know. - George Burns *** Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. - Lord Chesterfield ***

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Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. - Aesop *** Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. - Ambrose Bierce *** Cleverness is not wisdom. - Euripides *** Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment. - Euripides *** He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. - Epictetus *** He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. - Lao Tzu *** I am not young enough to know everything. - Oscar Wilde *** I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. - Anatole France *** Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up. - Voltaire *** If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. - Leo Buscaglia ***

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If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation. - Napoleon Hill *** In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. - Theodore Dreiser *** It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. - Aeschylus *** It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth. - Jeanne-Marie Roland *** It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. - Maurice Maeterlinck *** It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. - Sam Levenson *** Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. - William Cowper *** Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix *** Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. - Abba Eban ***

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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view. - Lord Halifax *** Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - Immanuel Kant *** Silence is true wisdom's best reply. - Euripides *** Some folk are wise, and some are otherwise. - Tobias Smollett *** That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. - John Stuart Mill *** The good and the wise lead quiet lives. - Euripides *** The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H. L. Mencken *** The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell ***

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The wisest mind has something yet to learn. - George Santayana *** To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. - Robert F. Kennedy *** What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. - Adlai Stevenson *** Wisdom begins at the end. - Daniel Webster *** Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately. - Matthew Henry ***

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Famous Women Quotes
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you. - Adlai Stevenson *** A Frenchwoman, when double-crossed, will kill her rival; the Italian woman would rather kill her deceitful lover; the Englishwoman simply breaks off relations-but they all will console themselves with another man. - Charles Boyer *** A woman can smell mink through six inches of lead. (Double Dynamite) - Groucho Marx *** A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. - Eleanor Roosevelt *** A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. - Gloria Steinem *** A women's greatest asset is her beauty. - Alex Comfort *** Age to women is like Kryptonite to Superman. - Kathy Lette *** All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins. - W. E. B. Du Bois ***

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Americans like fat books and thin women. - Russell Baker *** Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her. - Agatha Christie *** Behind every successful man there is a surprised woman. - Maryon Pearson *** Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees. - Frances Perkins *** Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. - Joseph Conrad *** Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football. - Fran Lebowitz *** Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. - Oscar Wilde *** Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both. - Samuel Butler *** Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best friend is still a nearsighted man. - Yoko Ono ***

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Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening. - Oscar Wilde *** Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse. - Will Rogers *** From 30 feet away she looked like a lot of class. From 10 feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from 30 feet away. - Raymond Chandler *** Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk. - Andy Gibb *** Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb. - Yul Brynner *** Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. - Jack Benny *** Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. - Helen Gurley Brown *** Guys are like dogs. They keep coming back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time...they're gone. - Lenny Bruce *** How can I possibly dislike a sex to which Your Majesty belongs? (on Queen Victoria's suggestion that he disliked women) - Cecil Rhodes ***

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I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance -- a sharp, vindictive glance. - James Thurber *** I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women. - Louis XIV *** I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. - Susan B. Anthony *** I like my whisky old and my women young. - Errol Flynn *** I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture. - Teresa Heinz Kerry *** I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against. - David Niven *** I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they are the first to be rescued off of sinking ships. - Gilda Radner *** If one is rich and one's a woman, one can be quite misunderstood. - Katharine Graham *** If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. - Aristotle Onassis ***

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If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher *** It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it. - Claudette Colbert *** Man has will, but woman has her way. - Oliver Wendell Holmes *** Men are generally more law-abiding than women. Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them. - Diane Johnson *** My understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasures. (Alfie, 1966) - Michael Caine *** Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words 'large' or 'size' with 'rear end.' Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me. - Tim Allen *** No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech. - Kin Hubbard *** No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. - Oscar Wilde *** Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. - Bill Vaughan ***

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One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything. - Oscar Wilde *** Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. - Abigail Adams *** She was short on intellect, but long on shape. - George Ade *** The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. - Ralph Waldo Emerson *** The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement. Of course He could have made it to last longer, but you can't have everything. -- (The Gingerbread Lady, 1970) - Neil Simon *** The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël *** The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it. - Alan Jay Lerner *** The soundtrack to 'Indecent Exposure' is a romantic mix of music that I know most women love to hear, so I never keep it far from me when women are nearby. - Fabio *** The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. - Roseanne Barr ***

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The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. - Chinese Proverb *** There are no women composers, never have been, and possibly never will be. (when asked why only male composers appeared in his repertoire) - Thomas Beecham *** There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling, and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. - Georges Pompidou *** There are two kinds of women: those who want power in the world, and those who want power in bed. - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis *** There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect. - Roseanne Barr *** There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. - Will Rogers *** They are so afraid we shall break down, and you know the reputation of the college is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without injuring their health. - Ellen Swallow Richards *** Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer. - Spiro Agnew ***

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To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end. - Helen Rowland *** To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. - Helen Rowland *** To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse. - Rudolph Valentino *** We have women in the military, but they don't put us in the front lines. They don't know if we can fight, if we can kill. I think we can. All the general has to do is walk over to the women and say, "You see the enemy over there? They say you look fat in those uniforms." - Elayne Boosler *** What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman. - Lord Byron *** Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. - Charlotte Whitton *** When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. - Elayne Boosler *** Whether women are better than men I cannot say—but I can say they are certainly no worse. - Golda Meir ***

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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men? - Barbra Streisand *** Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want? - George Gershwin *** Woman played her part in early California by reason of her absence. - Hubert Howe Bancroft *** Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon. - Tim Allen *** Women are like Elephants. I like to watch them, but I wouldn't want to own one. (Mississippi, 1935) - W. C. Fields *** Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. - Oscar Wilde *** Women aren't as mere as they used to be. - Walt Kelly *** Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself. - Roseanne Barr *** Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. - Elsa Schiaparelli ***

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Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend. - Marcel Achard *** Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting. - Janet Flanner *** Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work or prison. - Tim Allen *** Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with. - Roseanne Barr *** Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable. - Edward Abbey *** Women want to be treated as equals, not sequels - Kathy Lette *** Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. - Timothy Leary *** Women's music is underrepresented. - Beth Anderson *** Women, like princes, find few real friends. - George Lyttelton ***

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Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em. - Ivan Turgenev *** You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin' - W. C. Handy *** You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. - Dave Attell *** You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. - Erica Jong ***

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Famous Work Quotes
A bum asked me "Give me $10 till payday." I asked "When's payday?" He said "I don't know, you're the one who is working!" - Henny Youngman *** A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. - George Jean Nathan *** All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. - Aristotle *** Amateurs hope. Professionals work. - Garson Kanin *** Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. (Charlie McCarthy) - Charlie McCarthy *** An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox. - Lao Tzu *** Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti *** Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing. - Thomas A. Edison ***

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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without. - Anonymous *** Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing. - Barbara Stanwyck *** Conway's Law: In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on - This person must be fired. - Anonymous *** Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. - Henri Matisse *** Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head. - Andy Rooney *** Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor. - John Ciardi *** Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben *** Fear God and work hard. - David Livingstone *** HAM AND EGGS - A day's work for a chicken; A lifetime commitment for a pig. - Anonymous ***

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Hard work is damn near as overrated as monogamy. - Huey Long *** Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? - Edgar Bergen *** I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early. - Charles Lamb *** I am a friend of the workingman, I would rather be his friend than be one. - Clarence Darrow *** I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation. - Charles Evans Hughes *** I didn't have to work till I was three. But after that, I never stopped. - Martha Raye *** I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job - I mean, since she's been grown up. - Teresa Heinz Kerry *** I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work. - Pearl S. Buck *** I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson ***

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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. - Jerome K. Jerome *** I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that. I work very hard and I'm worth every cent. - Naomi Campbell *** I mean what good does it do anyone to kill themselves working, because the worms will get you in the end. - Dorothy Gish *** I wish my brother would learn a trade, so I would know what kind of work he's out of. - Henny Youngman *** If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. - Robert Louis Stevenson *** If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock. - Claude McDonald *** If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. - Lane Kirkland *** If I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably --why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work --for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good? - Herman Melville ***

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If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them. - Jane Fonda *** If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. - Kahlil Gibran *** If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire. - Cannon's Law *** In fifty years, he never worked a day. To him, nine to five was odds on a horse. Archie Bunker - Carroll O'Connor *** In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers' gangs, he would be asked if he could sing. If he could he got the job. The singing of these working men set the rhythm for the work. - W. C. Handy *** It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish. - J. R. R. Tolkien *** Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately you occasionally find men disgrace labor. - Ulysses S. Grant *** Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. - Anne Frank *** Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning ***

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Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. - Edward H. Harriman *** No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude. - Rupert Murdoch *** No project was ever completed on time and within budget. - Cheops Law *** One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell *** Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. - Edward Gibbon *** People are always available for work in the past tense. - Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labour *** People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it. - Joey Adams *** People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. - Frederick Douglass *** Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. - Peter Drucker ***

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Pleasure in the job put perfection in the work. - Aristotle *** Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place. - Roy Acuff *** Satisfaction Guaranteed or Double Your Garbage Back. - Garbage Truck *** So I was in my car, and I was driving along, and my boss rang up, and he said 'You've been promoted.' And I swerved. And then he rang up a second time and said "You've been promoted again.' And I swerved again. He rang up a third time and said 'You're managing director.' And I went into a tree. And a policeman came up and said 'What happened to you?' And I said 'I careered off the road. - Tim Vine *** The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola *** The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. - Andrew Carnegie *** The harder I work the luckier I get. - Samuel Goldwyn *** The remaining work to finish in order to reach your goal increases as the deadline approaches. - Bove's Theorem *** The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. - Jonas Salk ***

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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. - Pearl S. Buck *** The world is divided into people who do things--and people who get the credit. - Dwight Morrow *** Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it. - Henry Ford *** To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. - Pearl S. Buck *** We're not Prince Charles and Princess Di. We don't think of ourselves as royalty. We happen to be working people. - Christie Brinkley *** What do hookers do on their nights off—type? - Elayne Boosler *** When I work, I work very hard. So I look to work with people who have that level of dedication. And I depend on that from everyone. From the director to my crews that I work with. - Tom Cruise *** When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. - Maxim Gorky *** When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. - Theodore Roosevelt ***

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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. - Theodore Roosevelt *** Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men? - Barbra Streisand *** Work is the curse of the drinking classes. - Oscar Wilde *** Work is the curse of the drinking classes. - William Archibald Spooner *** Working gets in the way of living. - Omar Sharif ***

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