Unsorted quotes and words of wisdom

" ... a pity I never had children. But you"re wrong.... I have ... thousands of them ... thousands of them ... and all boys!"
Robert Donat


" The higher up you go, the more gentle you have to reach down to help other people succeed."
Rick Castro


""... the public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it"s bloom, or it"s garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs. ""
Margaret Fuller


""A fine morning"s killing, ay! All their necks wrung ? all dead birds! Once they could fly ? fly and swim! Fly and swim! All dead now ? and sold cheap in the open market!""
Marie Corelli


""A man was made to help support his children, which is the right and proper thing to do. A man was made to help support his children but, with a little bit o" luck, with a little bit o" luck, they"ll go out and start supporting you!""
Stanley Holloway


""All feelings, both positive and unpleasant, come out of the same faucet. To turn down the faucet on pain is to slow the flow of pleasant feelings as well.""
Gay & Kathlyn Hendricks


""Are you lost, daddy?" I asked tenderly. "Shut up," he explained."
Ring Lardner


""At the time Gothic cathedrals were designed, most people lived in dark huts, so just walking into a space vastly larger than what they were habituated to, lit by stained glass windows, was literally awe-inspiring. Today, we"re not as impressed by big buildings, so we have to go to very large mountains to experience that "diminutive effect.""
M. A. Persinger


""Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.""
Laertius


""Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always different from what was expected. Everything new is received with contempt?for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power unobserved."
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach


""Choices with Clout" "If what we are thinking about doing is likely to produce good results, we can be reasonably sure we will be choosing the right thing to do. You can make a living from 9 to 5, but you make a success during the rest....""
Wilbur Cross


""Doshitemo ikanakereba do suru ka?": "Nothing will do. What do you do?" He called this the fundamental koan ? i.e., the koan that is the common denominator of the thousands of extant koans."
Hisamatsu


""Even though it will disappoint many of you, the evidence is that you have a very bright future." This is how I finished my presentation at American University, eliciting a few chuckles from the audience. On a more serious note, I asked the students to co"
Ronald Bailey


""Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side ? and don"t be stinchy, beby." Number Ten in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. ?The Guinness Book of Film"
Greta Garbo


""Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad.... "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today ? in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped? always somebody else"s horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!""
Kenneth Grahame


""Have I the right to keep my faith," said a student inquirer, "at the price of my intellectual integrity?" The answer would have to be that the "faith" which is kept at such a price is not faith at all."
Alexander Mille


""Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I"ll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don"t want you winding up on the third shift at Flagg-Utica." Flagg-Utica was a local textile plant. Somehow, I never could figure how failing to read three chapters in my geography book about the various sorts of vegetation to be found in a tropical rain forest had anything to do with facing a life as a mill hand. But with enough guilt and fear as catalysts, you can read anything, even geography books and Deuteronomy."
Lewis McDonald Grizzard, Jr.


""Honesty is the best policy," "A dollar saved is a dollar earned," "Look before you leap," "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," "The laborer is worthy of his hire," may be scoffed at by some intellectuals as trite copybook rules, but nonetheless they sum up the elementary experience of the race in creating and consuming wealth.... People may change their minds as often as their coats, and new sets of rules of conduct may be written every week, but the fact remains that human nature has not changed and does not change, that inherent human beliefs stay the same; the fundamental rules of human conduct continue to hold."
Lammot du Pont


""How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously."
Alan Alexander Milne


""I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, "and that every word we say echoes to the remotest star."That poetic paranoia is a perfect description of what the Sun, as a gravitational lens, could do for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence."
Frank Drake


""I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion."
Robert G. Menzies


""I"ll be back." Number Four in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. ?The Guinness Book of Film"
Arnold Schwarzenegger


""If" is a word that has humbled many gardeners. But it hasn"t made us quit."
Katherine Endicott


""In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it."
Frank McKinney Hubbard


""It"s management"s job to know.""
Dr. W. Edwards Deming


""Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace."
Austin Farrar


""Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you"re gonna get." Number Six in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. ?The Guinness Book of Film"
Tom Hanks


""Look at us," said the violets blooming at her feet, "all last winter we slept in the seeming death ... but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.""
Edward Payson Rod


""Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well ?" "Very well indeed, sir," was the enthusiastic answer. "I am glad of that," replied the king; "for there was nothing in it.""
George III of England


""Loving You is Easy Cause You"re Beautiful" Hers was a gift of love, a miracle of life, For all the world to see and hear forever."
Minnie Riperton Rudolph


""My lige lady, generally," quod he, "Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.""
Geoffrey Chaucer


""Of two close friends, one is always the slave of the other."
Mikhail Lermontov


""S wonderful! "S marvelous? You should care for me!"
Ira Gershwin


""T is woman that seduces all mankind; By her we first were taught the wheedling arts."
John Gay


""T was he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung."
Anvari Suhaili


""T was the saying of an ancient sage (Gorgias Leontinus, apud Aristotle"s "Rhetoric," lib. iii. c. 18), that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit."
Shaftesbury


""T was whispered in heaven, "t was mutter"d in hell, And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; On the confines of earth "t was permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence confess"d."
Catherine M. Fanshawe


""Thanks be to God," says the Admiral, "the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is.""
Christopher Columbus


""That was a great speech. Every thinking American will vote for you." "That"s not enough. I need a majority.""
Morris King "Mo" Udall


""That"s All Folks!""
Mel Blanc


""The Entertainer" He did it all."
Sammy Davis, Jr.


""The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes?and ships?and sealing-wax?Of cabbages?and kings?And why the sea is boiling hot?And whether pigs have wings.""
Lewis Carroll


""Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height."
Umberto Eco


""Tis not the season of the leaf whose fragile body?s broken veins disintegrate in gusts of winds while winter blows a frosty coat that caps the barren land."
Lucille Younger


""Trees" maddens me, because it contains the most insincere line ever written by mortal man. Surely the Kilmer tongue must have been not far from the Kilmer cheek when he wrote, "Poems are made by fools like me.""
Heywood Campbell Broun


""Where they push "em down the road on wheels:" Well, they"re really outhouses. Once you"ve seen a race, you can"t not be a fan. What were you thinking?"
Mark Blair


""Who made you?" a boy of ten was asked. He stood in thoughtful silence for a moment and then, measuring the length of a baby with his hands, replied: "God made me this long, and I "growed the rest." The mistake that was his in leaving out God in his growth suggests the truth that we are partly self-made men. God and parenthood and birthplace partly make us, but we must make the rest by will and work."
Wilbur F. Crafts


""Would you be shocked if I changed into something more comfortable?" Number Five in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. ?The Guinness Book of Film"
Jean Harlow


""You, who are on the road, must have a code that you can live by-"* You"ll find universal agreement on the value of a behavior code, on the need for some sort of ethical system. Even the crooks count on "honor among thieves," and countries actually wage war according to certain rules. On the job and in the rest of our day-to-day living, we each need a "code for the road." *Crosby, Stills & Nash in a hit song."
Price Pritchett


""[T]hough we must hold to our faith in the evolution of species, there is little evidence as to how it has come about, and no clear proof that the process is continuing in any considerable degree at the present time.""
William Bateson


"(On the anthropogenic increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration) The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs (of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere, the plants and the soil, are all of roughly the same size. This means that large human disturbance of any one of these reservoirs will have large effects on all three. We cannot hope either to understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too."
Freeman Dyson


"(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth is then rarefied by the heat, and releases into the air all the heat-particles it happens to have. So, the more the earth is drained of heat, the colder becomes the moisture that is concealed in the ground. On the other hand, when all the earth condenses and contracts and congeals with the cold, then, of course, as it contracts, it squeezes out into the wells whatever heat it holds."
Titus Lucretius Carus


". We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child."
James Agee


"... a friend ... showed me the kitchen in her new home with the words, "This is my office." I knew what she meant. This is where I do the work I want to, the work I like and enjoy."
Shashi Deshpande


"... among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest."
Chomsky


"... and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from your appendages like the pungent vapors of whales ? often it appears that in this life of experience and accommodation we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. But Sissy ... hold on!"
Jack London


"... and so castles made of sand slip into the sea eventually."
Jimi Hendrix


"... As a so-called "civilized" people, and as members of a society in search of lasting peace in the world, we cannot remain callous to our responsibility toward nature and insensitive to the inherent rights of the animals."
Nathaniel Altman


"... desire cracks open the gates. If you"re ready it will take you through. But nothing lasts forever, time is the destroyer, the wheel turns again and again, watch out it will take you through."
Starhawk


"... even those for whom cooking is an oppressive chore or a source of self-doubting anxiety, acknowledge that a meal shared by friends and family is one of the bonding rituals without which the family, society even, can fall apart."
Antonia Till


"... every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures."
Ellen Glasgow


"... He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life."
Roland Huntford


"... human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."
Gabriel García Márquez


"... I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us! ... Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of the means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.... Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave ... ... Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason toward my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the majesty of heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings."
Patrick Henry


"... I was still learning when I taught my last class."
Claude Moore Fuess


"... is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?"
Harriet Martineau


"... is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be."
Frank Patrick Herbert


"... it would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth."
Daniel Bernoulli


"... money ... is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money."
Gertrude Stein


"... personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them."
Donald W. MacKinnon


"... planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn?t guarantee a recipe for success."
Kathy Lette


"... She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays."
Margaret Mitchell


"... success is a combination of many things, but a good character is the foundation of the kind of success that will bring you real happiness. Choose your friends wisely?they will make or break you."
J. Willard Marriott


"... that nothing"s so sacred as honor and nothing"s so loyal as love."
Wyatt Earp


"... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals."
James Clerk Maxwell


"... the actual cultivation of root crops began with the weeding out of less useful plants from natural communities to allow more room for the desired plants. This was followed by the realization that the crop "roots" could be planted and would thrive in comparable habitats not already containing them if these, too, were weeded."
H. G. Baker


"... the cruelty that goes under the barbarous regime we call civilisation."
Thomas Hardy


"... the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony and man ? all belong to the same family.... The White Man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers."
Chief Seattle


"... the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another?s."
Aristotle Metaphysics


"... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master"s exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master"s exams.""
Paul R. Halmos


"... this mind, through endless kalpas without beginning, has never varied. It has never lived or died, appeared or disappeared, increased or decreased. It"s not pure or impure, good or evil, past or future. It"s not true or false. It"s not male or female."
Bodhidharma


"... this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household ? which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation."
Susan Brownell Anthony


"... to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or of the spatial properties of relationships of actual bodies is intended, and any similarities between the primitive concepts and their customary geometrical connotations are purely coincidental."
Carl G. Hempel


"... top management should spend 40 to 50 percent of its time educating and motivating its people ..."
F. G. "Buck" Rodgers


"... true religion was never a narrow thing. True religion concerns man and the entire universe in which he lives. It concerns his relationships with himself and his fellow men, with his environment, and with God his creator. It is therefore limitless, and as boundless as that eternity which it teaches lies ahead of every son of God.... Here is the spirit of true religion, an honest seeking after knowledge of all things of heaven and earth."
Henry Eyring


"... Unhesitatingly take whatever material is readily at hand, and with enthusiasm and sincerity make something for a utilitarian purpose or just for the beauty of it. If at the very beginning you realize you aren?t going to have a grand time making it, just stop right there, because just as sure as death the result will be a tired, dreary affair."
Peter Hunt


"... we saw nothing in the way of searching planes or ships.... the second day out we organized little evening and morning prayer meetings.... Frankly and humbly we prayed for our deliverance. After the oranges were gone, we experienced terrific pangs of h"
Captain Edward "Eddie" Vernon Rickenbacker


"... we tend to forget that the body isn"t just a hat rack for the mind, but the crucible of development and the creator, monitor, and synthesizer of all our experience."
Winifred Gallagher


"... well publicized facts are always the bane to the mind controllers."
Dr. Joost A. M. Meerloo, MD


"... whether your name is Gehrig, or Ripken, DiMaggio, or Robinson, or that of some youngster who picks up his bat or puts on his glove, you are challenged by the game of baseball to do your very best, day in and day out, and that"s all I"ve ever tried to do"
Cal Ripken Jr.


"...but if there was anything unexpected about the bombing of Pearl Harbor, it was only that Hawaii was the target chosen for attack: "Then at 12 o"clock we (viz., General Marshall and I) went to the White House, where we were until nearly half past one. At the meeting were Hull, Knox, Marshall, Stark, and myself. There the President ... brought up entirely the relations with the Japanese. He brought up the event that we were likely to be attacked perhaps (as soon as) next Monday, for the Japanese are notorious for making an attack without warning, and the question was what we would do. The question was how we should maneuver them into the position of firing the first shot without allowing too much danger to ourselves. It was a difficult proposition.""
Henry L. Stinson


"...Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. He turned away at once; Far too polite to stare."
Adrian Riskin


"...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I"ve ever learned about anything?that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it?and its choice to be there?are gone."
Barbara Hambly


"...the myth of socialism is far stronger than the reality of capitalism. That is because capitalism is not really an ism at all. It is what people do if you leave them alone."
Arnold Beichmen


"...[E.H.] Moore ws presenting a paper on a highly technical topic to a large gathering of faculty and graduate students from all parts of the country. When half way through he discovered what seemed to be an error (though probably no one else in the room observed it). He stopped and re-examined the doubtful step for several minutes and then, convinced of the error, he abruptly dismissed the meeting -- to the astonishment of most of the audience. It was an evidence of intellectual courage as well as honesty and doubtless won for him the supreme admiration of every person in the group -- an admiration which was in no wise diminished, but rather increased, when at a later meeting he announced that after all he had been able to prove the step to be correct."
H.E. Slaught


".I have never known any distress that an hour"s reading did not relieve."
Charles de Secondat


".People think that because a novel"s invented, it isn"t true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that."
Anthony Dymoke Powell


".The last time somebody said, "I find I can write much better with a word processor.", I replied, "They used to say the same thing about drugs.""
Roy Blount, Jr.


"1 love to be in the company of people who are willing to make a sacrifice to hear the word of the Lord."
Elizabeth Gunn Witkowski


"1. A big black bug bit a big brown bear. 2. Bring a bit of buttered brown bran bread. 3. Just which one he wants I don?t know. 4. His daughter was going to New York to study law. 5. That?s the question that really troubles him. 6. Rich gifts wax poor when"
William G. Hoffman


"1. For the beauty of the earth, For the glory of the skies; For the love which from our birth, Over and around us lies; Lord of all, to Thee we raise This, our hymn of grateful praise. 2. For the wonder of each hour, Of the day and of the night; Hill and "
Folliott S. Pierpont


"1066, And All That."
Walter Carruthers Sellar


"10th August 1851: On Tuesday evening at Museum, at a ball in the gardens. The night was chill, I dropped too suddenly from Differential Calculus into ladies" society, and could not give myself freely to the change. After an hour"s attempt so to do, I returned, cursing the mode of life I was pursuing; next morning I had already shaken hands, however, with Diff. Calculus, and forgot the ladies...."
Thomas Archer Hirst


"32. A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough."
Morton C. Blackwell


"? and Sawyer, you"re going out a youngster, but you"ve got to come back a star."
Warner Baxter


"? The physicist Leo Szilard once announced to his friend Hans Bethe that he was thinking of keeping a diary: "I don"t intend to publish it: I"m merely going to record the facts for the information of God" "Don"t you think God knows the facts?" Bethe asked. "Yes," said Szilard, "He knows the facts, but He does not know THIS VERSION OF THE FACTS.""
Richard Lee Rhodes


"?Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there?s no place like home."
Payne


"?Should-haves? solve nothing. It"s the next thing to happen that needs thinking about."
Alexandra Ripley


"?Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try again. If at first you don?t succeed, Try, try again."
William Edward Hickson


"?Twas a sheep, not a lamb, that strayed away, In the parable Jesus told; A grown-up sheep that had gone astray, From the ninety and none in the fold. Out on the hillside, out in the cold, "Twas a sheep the good shepherd sought, And back to the flock safe in the fold "Twas a sheep the good shepherd brought. And why for the sheep should we earnestly long, And a earnestly hope and pray, Because there is danger, if they go astray. For the lambs will follow the sheep, you know, Wherever the sheep may stray; When the sheep go wrong, it will not be long Till the lambs are as wrong as they. And so with the sheep we earnestly plead, For the sake of the lambs today; If the lambs are lost; what a terrible cost Some sheep will have to pay."
C. D. Miller


"?Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.? Thus do I challenge the human race. Bombastes: So have I heard on Afric?s burning shore, A hungry lion give a grievous roar; The grievous roar echo?d along the shore. King: So have I heard on Afric?s burning shore Another lion give a grievous roar, And the first lion thought the last a bore."
William Barnes Rhodes


"A bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one."
Helen Rowland


"A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lion."
Samuel Palmer


"A ball player?s got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That?s why no boy from a rich family ever made it to the big leagues."
Joe Dimaggio


"A basic trouble is that most Churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message almost exclusively to those who are open to religious impression through the intellect, whereas ... there are at least four other gateways ? the emotions, the imagination, the aesthetic feeling, and the will ? through which they can be reached."
A. J. Gossip


"A bell?s not a bell ?til you ring it A song?s not a song ?til you sing it Love in your heart wasn?t put there to stay Love isn?t love ?til you give it away!"
Oscar Hammerstein


"A book of quotations ... can never be complete."
Robert M. Hamilton


"A boy a long time ago leaned against the railing of a bridge and watched the current of the river below. A log, a bit of driftwood, a chip floated past. Again the surface of the river was smooth. But always, as it had for a hundred perhaps a thousand, per"
Grove Patterson


"A brilliant man would find a way not to fight a war."
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto


"A business man"s judgment is no better than his information."
R. P. Lamont


"A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left ? which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right ? which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism. The libertarian faith in the mind of man is rejected by religionists who have faith only in the sins of man.... The libertarian insistence that each man is a sovereign land of liberty, with his primary allegiance to himself, is rejected by patriots who sing of freedom but also shout of banners and boundaries."
Karl Hess


"A career is a job that has gone on too long."
Jeff MacNelly


"A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun."
Charles Horton Cooley


"A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity nor conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it."
Suzanne Necker


"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm."
John Neal


"A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded."
Roger Ward Babson


"A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify; A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky."
Charles Wesley


"A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse ? and dreams of home."
Carl Burns


"A child should not be forced to be busy all the time. Let?s take away the tremendous pressures we place on our children, both in school and at home. Give the child an opportunity to sit back and daydream once in a while."
Dr. Benjamin Fine


"A Chinese tale tells of some men sent to harm a young girl who, upon seeing her beauty, become her protectors rather than her violators. That"s how I felt seeing the Earth for the first time. "I could not help but love and cherish her.""
Taylor Wang


"A Christian old age is the best thing in the world."
Reverend Sidney Strong


"A circumnavigator of the soul."
Frederic Herbert Trench


"A cliché is only something well said in the first place."
Bill Granger


"A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend"s girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she"s really_ attractive."
Bruce Friedman


"A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend?s girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior.... Unless she?s really attractive."
Bruce Jay Friedman


"A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed of nothing but submissive individuals, half of its health and all of its vigor have disappeared."
George Boas


"A cool and candid people will at once reflect that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the choice must always be made, if not of the lesser evil, at least of the greater, not the perfect, good."
James Madison


"A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow."
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak


"A couple things about looking into a mirror: First off, you get to see anybody sneaking up behind you, second, it"s two-dimensional and you don"t get to see the whole of yourself, third, mirrors are flat and very often cold, fourth, when things get hot and intense, it"s the mirror that steams up, not your eyes."
Greg Webster


"A craft can only have meaning when it serves a spiritual way."
Titus Burkhardt


"A desire for bigness has hurt many folks. Putting oneself in the limelight at the expense of others is a wrong idea of greatness. The secret of greatness rather than bigness is to acclimate oneself to one"s place of service and be true to one"s own convictions. A life of this kind of service will forever remain the measure of one"s true greatness."
Richard W. Shelly, Jr.


"A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy."
Guy Fawkes


"A diplomat these days is nothing but a head-waiter who"s allowed to sit down occasionally."
Peter Ustinov


"A dream is a wish your heart makes When you"re fast asleep In dreams you will lose your heartache Whatever you wish for you keep Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing The dream that you wish will come true A dream is a wish your heart makes When you"re feeling small Alone in the night you whisper Thinking no one can hear you at all You wake with the morning sunlight To find fortune that is smiling on you Don"t let your heart be filled with sorrow For all you know tomorrow The dream that you wish will come true."
Mack David


"A droll thing life is?that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself and that comes too late."
Joseph Conrad


"A drop of sweat on the drill ground will save many drops of blood on the battlefield."
August Willich


"A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing."
John Stuart Blackie


"A fairy seed I planted, so dry and white and old, there sprang a vine enchanted, with magic flowers of gold."
Marjorie Barrows


"A faithful friend is a strong defense, and he that findeth such findeth a treasure. A faithful friend is beyond price, and there is no weighing of his goodness. A faithful friend is the medicine of life."
Ben Sira


"A fellow doesn"t last long on what he has done. He"s got to keep on delivering as he goes along."
Carl Hubbell


"A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down."
John Wolcot


"A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
Albert Einstein


"A flower often will reclaim a mood when nothing else will bring it back."
Dion Calthrop


"A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry."
Octavio Paz, Poet: gardener of epitaphs


"A fraud ? not really a baron, and holding no high military rank, von Steuben was a skilled drill master who taught the American army what it needed to win the war. He once said: The genius of this nation is not in the least to be compared with the Prussians, the Austrians, or French. You say to your soldier, ?Do this," and he doeth it, but I am obliged to say, "This is the reason that you ought to do that," and then he does it."
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin Baron von Steuben


"A free society that allows each individual to seek his or her own selfish ends (without deliberately trying to harm anyone else) will produce a state in which everyone"s interest is optimized without any individual knowing in advance what that state might be."
Stuart Kauffman


"A FRIEND A friend is one who: Pushes you in the swing, Pulls you up the ladder, Pats you on the back, And hugs you good-bye."
Katherine N. Davis


"A friend is a priceless gem for the crown of life here and a cherished star in memory forever."
Cyrus S. Nusbaum


"A friend to honesty and a foe to crime"
Allan Pinkerton


"A garden always gives back more than it receives."
Mara Beamish


"A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul."
Sadi


"A garden is the best alternative therapy."
Germaine Greer


"A garden should feel like a walk in the woods."
Dan Kiley


"A garden was the primitive prison, till man, with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it."
Charles Lamb


"A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb."
Joseph W. Beach


"A garden without trees scarcely deserves to be called a garden."
Henry Ellacombe


"A genius can"t be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman."
Thomas Somerville


"A genius is one who can do anything except make a living."
Joey Adams


"A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world."
Oliver Hardy


"A Gentle Man and a Gentleman"
Jack Dempsey


"A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share of the world and lets other people have theirs."
Hoffman


"A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it."
Brander Matthews


"A girl can"t analyze marriage, and a woman dare not."
Lady Troubridge


"A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it."
Zsa Zsa Gabor


"A goal is a dream with a deadline."
Steve Smith


"A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever."
Martin Farquhar Tupper


"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
Elsa Schiaparelli


"A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad... and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly."
Emily Brontë


"A good man?s life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives."
General Edward H. White


"A good manager is a man who isn?t worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him"
H.S.M. Burnes


"A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever."
J. Hawes


"A gossip is someone who"s the knife of the party."
Morris Bender


"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
Gerald R. Ford


"A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."
Barry Goldwater


"A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the books?to understand what you are talking about."
Sir John Robert Seeley


"A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. They surround the world"s ignorance and press for admission."
Reinhold Niebuhr


"A great leader never sets himself above his followers except in carrying responsibilities."
Jules Ormont


"A great many of those about me would be imprisoned under any law; in France, as here, they would be regular jailbirds. But I loved them better and better ? and still I knew how little was my love for them compared to Christ"s. It is easy enough f or a man"
Henri Perrin


"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature."
Cardinal John Henry Newman


"A great teacher never strives to explain his vision?he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself."
The Rev. R. Inman


"A guy who wraps up a two-minute idea in a two-hour vocabulary."
Walter Winchell


"A half century ago Herbert Wechsler could justify the legal right of deadly force self-defense in terms of the "universal judgment that there is no social interest in preserving the lives of the aggressors at the cost of those of their victims." That is not a universal judgment today."
Don B. Kates


"A hammer sometimes misses its mark ? a bouquet never."
Monta Crane


"A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high."
William Sharp


"A heavenly place is where I will find my Father A heavenly place is where I am destined to go when I die A heavenly place will have festivities like singing and dancing A heavenly place will give a warm welcome to those who come A heavenly place is not difficult to find if you know Jesus Christ!"
Janae Ivie


"A home is a place where a pot of fresh soup simmers gently on the hob, filling the kitchen with soft aromas ... and filling your heart, and later your tummy, with joy."
Keith Floyd