The Best Ten Thousand Quotes, Part 2

The Best Ten Thousand Quotes

part 2

Copyright 2016 Eric Landa

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Introduction

I want to thank you and congratulate you for downloading this book The BEST ten thousand quotes part 2.

This second book contains another ten thousand quotes from both famous and ordinary people covering a wide variety of things. And as in part 1, they’ll make your face frown, your mouth smile and probably make your fingers scratch your head every now and then.

Thank you for downloading this book, I hope you’ll enjoy it!

Eric Landa (www.ericlanda.com)

Table of Content

10001 - 11000 Quotes by: Steve Prefontaine, Carl Sandburg, Vincent Van Gogh and many others

11001 - 12000 Quotes by: Agatha Christie, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad and many others

12001 - 13000 Quotes by: Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, Joseph Stalin and many others

13001 - 14000 Quotes by: Oscar Wilde, Ella Wheeler, Bill Cosby and many others

14001 - 15000 Quotes by: Albert Einstein, Gore Vidal, Henry Louis Mencken and many others

15001 - 16000 Quotes by: Gustave Flaubert, Edna Ferber, William Faulkner and many others

16001 - 17000 Quotes by: Herbert Clark Hoover, Leonard Hodgson and many others

17001 - 18000 Quotes by: Peter Marshall, Christopher Marlowe, Mary Marx and many others

18001 - 19000 Quotes by: Dutch Proverbs, Arab Proverbs, American Proverbs and many others

19001 - 20000 Quotes by: Arthur Schopenhauer, George Sand, William Safire and many others

#10001

If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I?m a German, and Germany will say that I’m a Jew. Albert Einstein

#10002

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which leave us to wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them that we are missing. Gamel Abdel Nasser

#10003

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately. Benjamin Franklin

#10004

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825

#10005

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. Mahtma Gandhi

#10006

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live. Adolf Hitler, His 3rd Public Speech After taking Power.

#10007

A fair woman is a paradise to the eye, a purgatory to the purse, and a hell to the soul. Elizabeth Grymeston

#10008

Friendship improves happiness and reduces misery, by doubting our joys and dividing our grief. Joseph Addison, (1672-1719)

#10009

There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility. John F. Kennedy, Speech for the Dallas Trade Mart which was never delivered.

#10010

We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter. Luis Rodriguez, Always Running

#10011

I felt like poisoning a monk. Umberto Eco, on why he wrote the novel The Name of the Rose.

#10012

The greatest improvement is made by the man who works most intelligently. Bill Bowerman

#10013

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds? worth of distance run? Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And you’ll be a Man, my son! Rudyard Kipling

#10014

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the Gift. Steve Prefontaine

#10015

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it. Steve Prefontaine

#10016

If you have a body, you are an athlete. Bill Bowerman

#10017

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. Nobody is going to win a 5,000-meter race after running an easy 2 miles. Not with me. If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself. Steve Prefontaine

#10018

Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#10019

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy. Publilius Syrus

#10020

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion. Spike Milligan, (1918 - 2002)

#10021

The difference between a good man and a bad man is the choice of cause. William James

#10022

The life of the law has not been logic but experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#10023

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams. Carl Sandburg

#10024

For I dip into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be. Lord Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses

#10025Beauty fades; dumb is forever. Judge Judy, From her book Beauty fades; dumb is forever.

#10026

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists. Albert Einstein

#10027

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward. Thomas Edison

#10028

An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns. Benjamin Franklin

#10029

A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history. Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin

#10030

Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from Luther until noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occurred at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. I and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return. W. H. Auden

#10031

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts. Charles Dickens

#10032

We all know that art is not the truth, art is a lie that makes us realize the truth. Pablo Picasso

#10033

I believe in God like I believe in the sun, not because I can see it, but because of it all things are seen. C. S. Lewis

#10034

If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing. Claude Debussy

#10035

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600

#10036

The very essence of love is uncertainty. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Ernest

#10037

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin

#10038

Yet such is off the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere. J. R. R Tolkien, Elrond from The Lord of the Rings

#10039

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen not touched... but felt in the heart. Hellen Keller

#10040

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. Linus Pauling

#10041

Critics are our friends, they tell us our faults. Benjamin Franklin

#10042

Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming. Oliver Wendell Holmes

#10043

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his soul? Jesus Christ, Matthew 16:26

#10044

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment. Bruce Lee, Quotation from the book: (The Art of Jeet Kune Do) by Bruce Lee

#10045

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix

#10046

Today you play for a place in history, today you play for immortality. Gerard Houllier, UEFA Cup Final 2001 pre-match team talk

#10047

To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem. Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

#10048

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. Winston Churchill

#10049

We find that after years of struggle we do not take a journey, but rather a journey takes us. John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

#10050

Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small part of the generic nightmare. Lewis Ward

#10051

Boredom is a finicky creature, never around when you need it, and always popping up when you want it the least. Lewis Ward

#10052

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. Jim Bishop, New York Journal-American, March 14, 1959

#10053

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. Dorothy Parker

#10054

The only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism. Dorothy Parker

#10055

When you point to the moon, what do you see in front of your finger; Your task is to feel, not to think, when you can understand that the lesson will be learned. Bruce Lee, During a television interview

#10056

No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, 1840

#10057

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly. Lauren Becall

#10058

One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask. Yvette Gilbert, (1865-1944)

#10059

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. Thorstein Veblen

#10060

Invention is the mother of necessity. Thorstein Veblen

#10061

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large. Plato

#10062

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully. Epicurus, 300 B.C.

#10063

There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves. George Washington

#10064

It is better to have done something than to have been someone. Claude Monet

#10065

Happiness is a warm puppy. Charles M. Schultz, Linus in Peanuts

#10066

You know when people are stupid, it frustrates me. Julia Roberts, on Oprah, 11/18/03

#10067

May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day. Native American Proverb

#10068

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything. Thich Nhat Hanh

#10069

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954

#10070

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. John Updike

#10071

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive. Thich Nhat Hanh

#10072

Fashion changes, style remains. Gabrielle Coco Chanel

#10073

I do not know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. Oprah Winfrey, The Oprah Winfrey Show

#10074

Any proposition containing the word is creates a linguistically structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies. Alfred Korzybski, His book, Science And Sanity

#10075

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. Bob Dylan

#10076

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

#10077

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816

#10078

No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will. Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792

#10079

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow. Victor Hugo, Les Miserable, 1862

#10080

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. Yann Martel, Life of Pi

#10081

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers. Homer Simpson, The Simpsons

#10082

Experience is a comb that is given to you, when you have already lost you hair. Giorgos Zambetas, Greek musician

#10083

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Vincent Van Gogh

#10084

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the words without the tune, and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson

#10085

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. Doug Larson

#10086

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. Albert Einstein

#10087

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be. George Santayana, The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis

#10088

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it. Edith Sitwell

#10089

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. Lyndon B. Johnson, address to the nation, November 28, 1963

#10090

Knowledge is love and light and vision. Helen Keller

#10091

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Helen Keller

#10092

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. Eleanor Roosevelt

#10093

The journey in between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place. Barbara De Angelis

#10094

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. C. S. Lewis

#10095 If you would be loved, love and be lovable. Benjamin Franklin

#10096

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Gandhi

#10097

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10098

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. Lao-tzu

#10099

The family-that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. Dodie Smith

#10100

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, 200 A.D.

#10101

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. St. Francis of Assisi

#10102

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus

#10103

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back. Barbara De Angelis

#10104

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. Ludwig von Beethoven

#10105

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. Jean Cocteau

#10106

For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron. Friedrich Nietzsche

#10107

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way. Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

#10108

Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves. Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

#10109

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600

#10110

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf

#10111

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity. Robertson Davies

#10112

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations are in a conspiracy to under-value them. Henry James

#10113

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly. John F. Kennedy

#10114

Americans never quit. General Douglas Macarthur

#10115

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. Henry David Thoreau

#10116

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

#10117

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American. Daniel Webster

#10118

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth. John Adams

#10119

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. John Quincy Adams

#10120

Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus. John Ashcroft

#10121

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks. John Barrymore

#10122

I just want to say this. I want to say it gently but I want to say it firmly: There is a tendency for the world to say to America, the big problems of the world are yours, you go and sort them out, and then to worry when America wants to sort them out. Tony Blair

#10123

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. Louis D. Brandeis

#10124

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings. Jimmy Carter

#10125

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. Bill Clinton

#10126

There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure. Dwight D. Eisenhower

#10127

America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. Herbert Hoover

#10128

America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations. Lyndon B. Johnson

#10129

Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. Sinclair Lewis

#10130

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, January 20, 1961

#10131

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people. Claiborne Pell

#10132

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. Carl Sandburg

#10133

America is a young country with an old mentality. George Santayana

#10134

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is. Gertrude Stein

#10135

There is a New America every morning when we wake up. It is upon us whether we will it or not. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

#10136

Europe will never be like America. Europe is a product of history. America is a product of philosophy. Margaret Thatcher

#10137

Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people. Woodrow Wilson

#10138

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. Woodrow Wilson

#10139

When I came back to Dublin I was court-martialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. Brendan Behan

#10140

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few. Benjamin Disraeli, campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832

#10141

Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. George Eliot, Middlemarch

#10142

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. George Eliot, Romola

#10143

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. George Eliot, Middlemarch

#10144

The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots. George Eliot, Middlemarch

#10145

Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. Bob Marley

#10146

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Bob Marley

#10147

I had a dream last night that a hamburger was eating ME! Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld episode The Van Buren Boys - broadcast on February 6, 1997

#10148

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935

#10149

Let me beg for your mercy if I have failed to earn your respect. Jason DeBruin, The poem Temporary Shame

#10150

(I do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands .e. cummings

#10151

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately. Oscar Wilde, Letter from Paris, dated May 1900

#10152

cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion, between supposed lovers, between supposed brothers. And I know the pieces fit. Maynard James Keenan, in the song Schism, by Tool

#10153

The budget is like a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical beans into it, then reaches in and tries to pull real ones out. Will Rodgers

#10154

At the center of each human heart is goodness, layered over with hurt, confusion, and mistaken ideas. Our task is to gently peel off layer after layer until the unfettered heart can shed its love upon the world. Sue Patton Thoele, The Courage To Be Yourself Journal

#10155

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be. Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha

#10156

Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. Woody Allen

#10157

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark. Ovid

#10158

What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. Jane Austen

#10159

Much silence and a good disposition, there are no two things better than these. Prophet Muhammad, Bukhari

#10160

When two persons are together, two of them must no whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him. Prophet Mohammad, Bukhari & Muslim

#10161

Verily, a man teaching his child manners is better than giving one bushel of grain in alms. Prophet Muhammad, Muslim

#10162

If you do not feel ashamed of anything, then you can do whatever you like. Prophet Mohammad, Abu-Masud: Bukhari

#10163

Far away there in the sunshine are my brightest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. Louisa May Alcot

#10164

Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account. Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future

#10165

Eternity is very long, especially towards the end. Woody Allen, Just Six Numbers, Martin Rees, page 71

#10166

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

#10167

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10168

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward. Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944

#10169

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary. Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

#10170

He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return. Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

#10171

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

#10172

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts. Baruch Spinoza, The Ethics

#10173

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt

#10174

The best holistic remedy for high blood pressure is a purring cat on your lap. Kathrine Palmer Peterson, 516 Sensational Cat Quotes

#10175

War is the continuation of politics by other means. General Karl Von Clausewitz, Book: On War

#10176

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing. Friedrich Nietzsche

#10177

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. John Quincy Adams

#10178

I am a galley slave to pen and ink. Honore de Balzac

#10179

Woe be to him that reads but one book. George Herbert

#10180

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. Amos Bronson Alcott

#10181

Oh for a book and a shady nook... John Wilson

#10182

You can cover a great deal of country in books. Andrew Lang

#10183

I read part of it all the way through. Samuel Goldwyn

#10184

Live always in the best company when you read. Sydney Smith

#10185

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it. Mark Twain, Following the Equator

#10186

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Calvin Coolidge, speech, June 11, 1928

#10187

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. Mark Twain, Following the Equator

#10188

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. Mark Twain, Is Shakespeare Dead?

#10189

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. Mark Twain, The Gorky Incident

#10190

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. Henry David Thoreau

#10191

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. Izaak Walton

#10192

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. Eric Berne

#10193

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. J. G. Holland

#10194

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages. Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien

#10195

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. Robert Lynd, The Blue Lion and Other Essays

#10196

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. Chinese Proverb

#10197

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. John Berry, Flight of White Crows

#10198

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual. Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922

#10199

It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible reading People. Horace Greeley

#10200

Nobody picks on a strong man. Charles Atlas

#10201

In a minute there is time for decision and revisions that a minute will reverse. T. S. Eliot

#10202

Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me? Groucho Marx

#10203

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. George Orwell

#10204

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you. Orson Scott Card, Treasure Box

#10205

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952

#10206

The sane appear as strange to the mad as the mad to the sane Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw, Act II

#10207

I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself. D. H. Lawrence

#10208

Human beings cannot stand too much reality. Thomas S. Eliot, Four Quartets

#10209

Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me. Friedrich Nietzsce, Beyond Good and Evil

#10210

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one. Voltaire, Zadig

#10211

During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history. Stephen Ambrose, D-Day, page 577

#10212

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. Honore de Balzac

#10213

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time. Honore de Balzac

#10214

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. John F. Kennedy, speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963

#10215

Behind every great fortune there is a crime. Honore de Balzac

#10216

I do not know everything; still many things I understand. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#10217

Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden. Thomas Sowell, Editorial on Wal-Mart, 10-Dec-2003

#10218

It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart. Martin Luther

#10219

For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10220

To be great is to be misunderstood. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10221

All people want is someone to listen. Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 8, 2003

#10222

Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24/7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world... Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003

#10223

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. Elbert Hubbard

#10224

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy

#10225

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. Marilyn Vos Savant

#10226

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. Maya Angelou

#10227

When the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books. Thomas More

#10228

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges

#10229

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime. Henry Holt

#10230

When books are burned in the end people will be burned too. Heinrich Heine

#10231

Never lend books - nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me. Anatole France

#10232

I do begin to have bloody thoughts. William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4 Scene 1

#10233

I would fain die a dry death. William Shakespeare, The Tempest,, Act 1 Scene 1

#10234

What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 1 Scene 2

#10235

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. William Shakespeare, The Tempest,, Act 1 Scene 2

#10236

Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3

#10237

I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Count Diodati, 1807

#10238

O would some power the giftie give us to see ourselves as others see us. (O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us.) Robert Burns, Poem To a Louse - verse 8

#10239

He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. George Herbert

#10240

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul! Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 34

#10241

How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other! Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 19

#10242

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Thomas Paine, Common Sense

#10243

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission. Robert Burns

#10244

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves. Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

#10245

No, it is remarkable that Everest did not yield to the first few attempts; it would have been surprising and not a little sad if it had, for that is not the way of great mountains. Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air

#10246

We never learn to pray, really pray- until we are in a situation where there is nothing left to do but pray. Victoria Damon

#10247

Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or justice to our enemies, justice will be done. George W. Bush

#10248

Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it. Robert England

#10249

The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song! John Burroughs, Birds and Poets, 1887

#10250

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head! William Blake

#10251

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. Saskya Pandita

#10252

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. Emily Dickinson

#10253

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. William Henry Hudson, Afoot in England, 1909

#10254

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. Charles Lindbergh, Interview shortly before his death, 1974

#10255

There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone. J. R. R. Tolkien

#10256

He saw that it was an ironical thing for him to be running thus toward that which he had been at such pains to avoid. But he said, in substance, to himself that if the earth and the moon were about to clash, many people would doubtless plan to get upon the roofs to witness the collision. Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, chapter 8

#10257

Loving is misery for women always. I shall never forgive God for making me a woman and dearly am I beginning to pay for the honour of owning a pretty face. Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

#10258

You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real. Audrey Hepburn

#10259

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend? The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government. Ralph Waldo Emerson,? Journal, 1860

#10260

When a traveler returned home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him. Francis Bacon, 1597-1625

#10261

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey. Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

#10262

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page. Saint Augustine

#10263

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Death, 1997

#10264

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms. William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation

#10265

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. John Burroughs, The Snow-Walkers

#10266

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. Willa Cather, My Antonia

#10267

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow. Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

#10268

Every mile is two in winter. George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

#10269

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago. Christina Rossetti, A Christmas Carol

#10270

If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring. Christopher Pearce Cranch, A Spring Growl

#10271

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. Emily Dickinson, No. 1333

#10272

To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human. Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999

#10273

There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end. Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

#10274

When life hands us a beautiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee. Dean Koontz, Shadow Fires ( early book)

#10275

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Henry David Thoreau, Walden

#10276

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. Helen Keller

#10277

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach your patience, sweetness, insight. Helen Keller

#10278

If a nation is ruled by two kings, both the kings and their subjects will perish. Yeghishe

#10279

Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore, if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me. Epictetus

#10280

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

#10281

You can win a million battles but you can only lose one. R. A. Salvatore, Homeland

#10282

Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without. Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded

#10283

If we do not ever take time, how can we ever have time? Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded

#10284

I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight. Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992

#10285

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

#10286

Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating? Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now. Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992

#10287

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992

#10288

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Revelations, 1993

#10289

If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798

#10290

As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994

#10291

By mid-November I always like to have an extra 15 pounds on me. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

#10292

Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life single-mindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993

#10293

Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles. Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994

#10294

George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping? Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994

#10295

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli, speech, January 24, 1860

#10296

Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars. Frederick Lang bridge

#10297

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864

#10298

They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts. Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991

#10299

A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off? Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991

#10300

Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out. Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991

#10301

I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Seoul Mates, 1991

#10302

Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Dateline: Cicely, 1992

#10303

Repetition is the death of art. Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992

#10304

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992

#10305

Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. David Assael, Northern Exposure, It Happened in Juneau, 1992

#10306

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939

#10307

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us groveling in it. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

#10308

We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us! Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992

#10309

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come. Rabindranath Tagore

#10310

Some of the best advice I ever received was Man, that was terrible. Tom Hanks

#10311 You know, if you treated every comic the way you treated me tonight. You would never see a bad show. Buddy Hackett

#10312

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. Oprah Winfrey

#10313

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate. Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean

#10314

Religion is pickled God. H. G. Wells, H. G. Wells Society

#10315

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia

#10316

We are the hero of our own story. Mary McCarthy

#10317

Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow. Theodore Epp

#10318

There was a star danced, and under that was I born. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

#10319

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie. Agnes De Mille

#10320

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pan American Day address, April 15, 1939

#10321

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. Henry David Thoreau

#10322

Those who dance were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. Angela Monet

#10323

It is better to looked over than overlooked. Mae West

#10324

We shall support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports. Mao Tse-Tung

#10325

Wise men have more to learn of fools than fools of wise men. Michel de Montaigne

#10326

Peace and blessings manifest with every lesson learned - and if your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned. Erykah Badu, A line from the song On & On

#10327

Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Solomon, King of Israel, The Bible Proverbs 31:30

#10328

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law. The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible- Galations 5:22-23 NIV

#10329

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. Franklin D. Roosevelt, quoted Kansas City Star, June 5, 1977

#10330

When there are monsters there are miracles. Ogden Nash

#10331

When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever. Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

#10332

Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it. Jules Renard

#10333

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis. Martha Beck, O Magazine, Growing Wings, January 2004

#10334

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004

#10335

That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out. I know these things for sure. Madonna, O Magazine, January 2004

#10336

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. Sir Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940

#10337

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it. Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004

#10338

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention. Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004

#10339

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us! Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, Belatedly Yours, January 2004

#10340

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, January 2004

#10341

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future. Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004

#10342

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004

#10343

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job. Sir Winston Churchill, BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941

#10344

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 05, 2004

#10345

I have been truthful all along the way. The truth is more interesting, and if you tell the truth you never have to cover your tracks. Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 04, 2004

#10346

Sometimes it’s good to contrast what you like with something else. It makes you appreciate it even more. Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, 2001

#10347

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Franklin D. Roosevelt, message for Jefferson Day, April 13, 1945

#10348

Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999

#10349

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget. Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Thanksgiving, 1992

#10350

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9, 1975

#10351

The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992

#10352

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you. Denise Dobbs, Northern Exposure, Survival of the Species, 1993

#10353

Good food ends with good talk. Geoffrey Neighor, Northern Exposure, Duets, 1993

#10354

Real meaningful endeavors, the biggies in human existence, often require the sacrifice of others. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993

#10355

Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952

#10356

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993

#10357

Trees like to have kids climb on them, but trees are much bigger than we are, and much more forgiving. Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Old Tree, 1993

#10358

I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions because I don’t think you should have to wait until December to start working on how to change yourself. I think if you’ve got a problem, you need to fix it now. Clay Aiken

#10359

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. Jackie Robinson, baseball player

#10360

Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration. Clay Aiken

#10361

People feel comfortable around someone who is comfortable with himself. Clay Aiken, Teen People

#10362

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978

#10363

I am more and more convinced that our happiness depends more on how we meet the events in our lives, than on those events themselves. Alexander