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Anger Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
- William Congreve
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
- William Butler Yeats
Art Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
- Salvador Dali
When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.
- Tommy Lee
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
Business My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
- Ted Turner
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
- Napoleon Hill
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
- John Cleese
Computers 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
Dreams Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
- Terry Pratchett
Reality is the best possible cure for dreams.
- Roger Starr
Education Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde
Education is the transmission of civilization.
- Will Durant
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Equality There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
- John James Ingalls
Experience There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
- Josh Billings
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
- Mark Twain
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
- Samuel Butler
Faith Faith is reason grown courageous.
- Sherwood Eddy
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness 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
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
- Quentin Crisp
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Friendship One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
- George Santayana
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
- Sarah Orne Jewett
Government The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
- Woodrow Wilson
Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
- Robert Orben
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
- Ronald Reagan
History Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
- Dante Alighieri
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
- Frank Herbert
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
- Evita Peron
Humor If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
- Jennifer Jones
People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.
- Ellen DeGeneres
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.
- Jessamyn West
Imagination Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
- Stephen B. Leacock
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
- L. Frank Baum
Intelligence Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
- Josh Billings
Life Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
- Fran Lebowitz
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
- William Lyon Phelps
Love The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
- Nan Fairbrother
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
- Leo Buscaglia
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
- Lord Thomas Dewar
Marriage Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
- Sydney J. Harris
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
- George Jessel
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
- Isadora Duncan
Mortality I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
- Mark Twain
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
- Elbert Hubbard
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
- Samuel Butler
Movies I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
- Oskar Werner
A film is a petrified fountain of thought.
- Jean Cocteau
You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
- Mary Schmich
| Music No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- W. H. Auden
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
- Robert Browning
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.
- Helmut Walcha
Nature Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
- Dag Hammarskjold
Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.
- William Wordsworth
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.
- John Muir
Old Age We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
- Bill Vaughn
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
- Paul Tillich
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
On Change When you are through changing, you are through.
- Bruce Barton
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
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
- Stanislaw Lec
Patriotism A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
- William R. Inge
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
- Blaise Pascal
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Peace It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
- Andre Gide
Poetry Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
- Alfred de Musset
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
- E. B. White
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
- Thomas Hardy
Politics I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
- Robert Orben
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
- H. L. Mencken
Religion There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
- Louis Kronenberger
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
- Isaac Asimov
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Science Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
- Jane Howard
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
- Arthur M. Schlesinger
Society Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
- George Bernard Shaw
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
- Bill Vaughan
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
- Lily Tomlin
Sports Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
- Robert Graves
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.
- Dan Duva
The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.
- Reggie Jackson
Success If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
- Quentin Crisp
What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
- Margaret Thatcher
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
- Al Bernstein
Technology Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.
- William Gibson
Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
- Carrie P. Snow
The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.
- Adam Smith
Time Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.
- Henry Austin Dobson
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
- Doug Larson
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
- Dion Boucicault
War Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
- Omar N. Bradley
War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
- William C. Westmoreland
Words to the Wise Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
- Elbert Hubbard
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- Oprah Winfrey
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Workplace A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
- Fats Domino
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
- Pearl S. Buck
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
- Pablo Picasso
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