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Ni'matullah Wali Quotations
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It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Solutions are not the answer.
Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.
In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.
The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block.
I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
A wrong-doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something.
One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.
Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little I still know, I've guessed.
This document describes the usage and input syntax of the Unix Vax-11 assembler As. As is designed for assembling code produced by the "C" compiler; certain concessions have been made to handle code written directly by people, but in general little sympathy has been extended.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
Focus on remedies, not faults.
I have impeached myself by resigning.
He who limps still walks.
Plato is boring.
I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
He is most cheated who cheats himself.
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed.
Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood...Make big plans, aim high in hope and work.
Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
Find peace in where and what you are.
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.
If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on prospering.
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
The church is near, but the way is icy, The tavern is far, but I will walk carefully.
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Six essential qualities that are the key to success Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.
First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow.
You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.
The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of those diseases is man.
Brilliance is born of desperation.
That which comes after ever conforms to that which has gone before.
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.
Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
I turned into the helicopter ... the red carpet was rolled up. ... The White House was behind us now.
He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
Drink nothing without seeing it sign nothing without reading it.
He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you choose your parents.
I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life.
Never, Never, Never Say NEVER
The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace.
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.
The living is a species of the dead and not a very attractive one.
The only difference between a Good Day And a Bad Day Is your ATTITUDE
Let's play two
If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.
Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session.
Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.
The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.
To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.
For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.
No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
Tomorrow is the busiest day of the year.
Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Sometimes a fool makes a good suggestion.
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
Motherhood All love begins and ends there.
Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world.
We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.
If the belief [in Christianity] did not make us happy, it would not be believed: how little it must then be worth!
I want you to stonewall it. (To staff on news of break-in at Watergate)
To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
Well, I'm not a crook.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
#1597. Everything is deemed possible except that which is impossible in the nature of things.
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you speak.
He who limps is still walking.
The miracle is this--the more we share, the more we have.
I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a- bitch.
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
'Who are you and how did you get in here' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.'
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
How could I lose to such an idiot?
A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.
God gave teeth He will give bread.
The trees reflected in the river -- they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor. (When love is not madness, it is not love.)
Bad is never good until worse happens.
So as a prince is forced to know how to act like a beast, he must learn from the fox and the lion; becouse the lion is defenceless against traps and the fox is defenceless against wolves. Therefore one must be a fox in order to recognise traps and lion to frighten off wolves.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water.
My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won't let me.
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.
One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them.
The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper.
Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
Warning signs that lover is bored:
1. Passionless kisses
2. Frequent sighing
3. Moved, left no forwarding address.
1. Passionless kisses
2. Frequent sighing
3. Moved, left no forwarding address.
However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source.
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
One drink is just right two is too many three are too few.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.
If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them from fighting and second, if this theory is in line with what you know of the heavily armored men of your personal acquaintance.
The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Where there is love, there is pain.
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.
Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.
Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see -- to see correctly -- and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.
A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Eyes that see do not grow old.
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
I hereby resign this office of president of the United States.
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small things they show themselves as they are.
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
"Where did you put it?"
"Put what?"
"You know?"
"Where do you think?"
"Oh."
"Put what?"
"You know?"
"Where do you think?"
"Oh."
I concede
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
We love because it's the only true adventure.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others.
To believe with certainty we must begin by doubting.
In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us.
I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me.
Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black.
Three Spaniards, four opinions.
Whatever happens it all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place.
If you are interested in stories with happy endings you would be better off reading some other book.
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.
Life is not a laughing matter, but can you imagine having to live without laughing.
Jean Grey Girls flirt with the dangerous guy, they don't bring him home... they marry the good guy.
An exile's life is no life.
When small men cast long shadows the sun is going down.
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
Melpomene was a substantial girl, thick of bosom, ankle, and forearm, rosy of cheek, and clear of eye. She seemed somehow incomplete without her hockey stick.
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.
Pride the first peer and president of hell.
For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice.
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!
Generous people are rarely mentally ill.
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
Judges don't age time decorates them.
A camel is a horse designed by committee.
I told you he had a cash register mind. Rings every time he opens his mouth.
The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic.
The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage.
The road to a friend's house is never long.
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
I came into the world either too early or too late at present, I am good for nothing.
Rejoice evermore. In every thing give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
I like life. It's something to do.
There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
A different language is a different vision of life.
We will either find a way, or make one
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Out of life's school of war What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches Libertarianism by bankruptcy.
Mind is the great lever of all things.
Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Luck happens when oppurtunity encounters the prepared mind.
A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.
You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent.
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Television A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
If you look long enough into the void the void begins to look back through you.
The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
We're like the sea, people our waves Necessarily we are associated with everyone.
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy.
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
We can be honest without saying what we mean to say, we can talk about the weather while ignoring the rain.
Grow old along with me the best is yet to be.
...people are by nature fickle, and it is easy to persuade them of something, but difficult to keep them persuaded.
Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
We're not quite so bumbling and hopeless as you like to think.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
Error is discipline through which we advance.
There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
A candour affected is a dagger concealed.
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.
Do not put your spoon into the pot which does not boil for you.
Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others.
The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.
Lefty A wise guy's always right even when he's wrong, he's right.
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
I still live.
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
Not only are you anal, but you are anal about things most people have never even heard of.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
Writing only leads to more writing.
I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.
I walk ahead of myself in perpetual expectancy of miracles.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.
In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows us that faith proves nothing.
Advice to writers Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
#3547. A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.
Life without music would be a mistake.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
You can?t argue with all of the fools in the world. It?s easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they?re not paying attention.
Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble.
I had learnt to seek intensity?more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
Sometimes there are no answers.
There are only two types of aircraft ? fighters and targets.
#3533. The law disregards trifles.
One good turn deserves another.
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.
If you would be pope, you must think of nothing else.
The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books.
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.
People don?t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
The last Christian died on the cross.
Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
Not even the gods fight against necessity.
All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.
Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best even of their blunders.
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.
We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.
Our envy of others devours us most of all.
Figures won't lie, but liars can figure.
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.
Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true
Delores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping along smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an over- dose of flouride as a child which caused her to suffer from chronic apathy, doomed herself to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
To the good listener, half a word is enough.
The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
You must be willing to protect yourself and what you cherish, no matter what the cost.
#3532. The law neither does nor requires idle acts.
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Pyro You know all those dangerous mutants you hear about in the news - I'm the worst one.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self
Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.
Lefty When they send for you, you go in alive, you come out dead, and it's your best friend that does it.
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised.? I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
I was going to buy a copy of "The Power of Positive Thinking", and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
If I die, I forgive you If I live, we shall see.
Who lies for you will lie against you.
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
It's the Brady Act taking manpower and crime-fighting capability off the streets.
Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!
An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
Blessed are the forgetful for they get the better even of their blunders.
Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
A lie told often enough becomes truth.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
I think we might be going a bridge too far.
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human...Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept
Prima la musica, poi le parole (first the music, then the words)
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
We challenge each other to be funnier and smarter.
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself
#3530. That which does not appear to exist is to be regarded as if it did not exist.
Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.
It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.
Only sick music makes money today.
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
No one now dies of fatal truths; there are too many antidotes to them.
He admits there are two sides to every question: his own and the wrong side.
On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.
God is dead.
When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.
The best Web sites are better than reality.
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
The moment that any of us begins to trade principle for approval we give up our power.
I can't say I was ever lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.
What if there had been room at the inn?
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Don't offer me advice give me money.
Go tell the Spartans,
Passerby,
That here, obedient to their laws,
We lie.
Passerby,
That here, obedient to their laws,
We lie.
Life is made up of marble and mud.
If you had to have a diploma or a GED to collect unemployment, you'd see a lot more kids staying in school.
Hold a true friend with both hands.
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do??
If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our time.
This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.
You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
Most of today's books have an air of having been written in one day from books read the night before.
If you would live healthy, be old early.
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.
Goal achievement is hero's work.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
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.
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.
I am a firm believer of reading the horoscopes. I read all twelve, pick the one that sounds the best and go with that one.
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals others by their acts.
Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.
No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.
Just definitions either prevent or put an end to a dispute.
This place makes Mayberry look like a think tank.
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Music is Love in search of a word.
Live with wolves, and you learn to howl.
A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.
Love is a medicine for the sickness of the world a prescription often given, too rarely taken.
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?
What's a man's age He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
Abundance, like want, ruins many.
Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.
When we hold back on life, life holds us back.
True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain.
There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect.
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know' and thou shalt progress.
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.
Money is a good servant, but a poor master.
I love America. You always hurt the one you love.
Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it it is the future that makes laws for us today.
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of the truth than lies.
I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures...
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
My teen angst has a body count.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good--the atavism of a more ancient ideal.
Better a mouse in the pot than no meat at all.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.
There is nothing more practical than a good theory.
Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.
I must be an optimist, because a pessimist is never disappointed.
Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.
Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stone, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.
All is ephemeral,--fame and the famous as well.
People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.
Success produces success, just as money produces money.
Only the devil wishes everyone to be his friend.
What makes the engine go Desire, desire, desire.
The wise man will love; all others will desire.
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Honesty is being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.
Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow.
Why is my existence so perfect with dark places? And why do I no longer care?
There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then, Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church ? and there was nobody left to be concerned.
I?ll fight when needed, revel when there?s an occasion, mourn when there is grief, and die if my time comes? but I won?t let anyone use me against my will.
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster.
Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire. (A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.)
If you run from a wolf, you may run into a bear.
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
To be feared is much safer then to be loved.
To stand up -- or be setup?
Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
You can not gain peace by avoiding life.
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites...
We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
Love is what is left in a relationship after all the selfishness is taken out.
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
Under a ragged coat lies wisdom.
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class.
A sign of a celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.
He who waits for a chance may wait for a long time.
A schedule defends from chaos and whim.
He turns all of his injuries into strengths, that which does not kill him makes him stronger, he is superman.
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
Someone bent on suicide won?t have much sense of humour left.
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Thinking evil is making evil.
Some men are born posthumously.
It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what?
If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insiduously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to seperate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
The older you get the stronger the wind gets-and it's always in your face.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often the should appear.
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
I let the American people down.
Careers, like rockets, don't always take off on schedule. The key is to keep working the engines.
When in doubt, do without.
When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby.
Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.
When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning.
The President can bomb anybody he likes.
Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.
It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.
This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.
One's own thought is one's world. What a person thinks is what he becomes.
One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.
Convictions are the more dangerous enemy of truth than lies.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Nothing feeds upon itself as liberality does.
Imagine a world without Darwin. Imagine a world in which Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace had not transformed our understanding of living things. What... would become baffling and puzzling..., in urgent need of explanation? The answer is: practically everything about living things....
It's a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can't stop playing the game the way you've always played it.
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.
This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you? People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren?t telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.
The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.
...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp - or what's a heaven for
Look beneath the surface let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Since when was genius found respectable?
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.
'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms.
Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough
The average person thinks he isn't.
Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
No form of Nature is inferior to Art for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
Eating while seated makes one of large size eating while standing makes one strong.
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.
No revenge is more honourable than the one not taken.
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.
The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
When a thing is done, advice comes too late.
What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step toward truth.
Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.
The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.
Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
Don't point out your flaws, because the world is not as sympathetic and nurturing as you think.
Take hold lightly let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.
The best of men cannot suspend their fate The good die early, and the bad die late.
It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate...
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
Without music life would be a mistake.
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.
Unless you know what you want, you can't ask for it.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
There will be no whitewash in the White House. (On Watergate investigation)
Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.
Ask advice only of your equals.
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good His love and His kindness go on forever.
How much easier it is to be generous than just Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.
#3546. Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.
She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.
This only is certain, that there is nothing certain; and nothing more miserable and yet more arrogant than man.
Most joyful the Poet be;
It is through him that all men see.
It is through him that all men see.
Anybody who accepts mediocrity - in school, on the job, in life - is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.
I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.
And remember this if you ever think you're too small to be effective -- you've never been in bed with a mosquito.
True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.
Lefty Wise guy dont carry wallets, they carry their money in a roll....beaner on the outs
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is just out of grasp... But if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
He who is caught in a lie is not believed when he tells the truth.
If you wish good advice, consult an old man.
When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork
Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.
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.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving.
Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much.
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.
The wise man will love all others will desire.
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.
If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.
Every one is the architect of his own fortune.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.
Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
We have art so that we shall not die of reality.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...
At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torments of man.
If three people say you are an ass, put on a bridle.
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
I banish fear with two words: you lead.
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
Jesus was a crackpot.
No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.
Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
We say the name of God, but that is only habit.
Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
Even pleasure itself is a toil.
Whoso loves, believes the impossible.
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience.
We had parties that Nero would have been ashamed to attend
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Not a few who meant to drive out their demons went thereby into the swine themselves.
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
'Let thine occupations be few,' saith the sage, 'if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life.'
Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.
This is how God showed His love among us He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him.
Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
It is the act of a madman to pursue impossibilities.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.
Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Morality is the greatest of all tools for leading mankind by the nose.
I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.
Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
A prince should therefore have no other aim or thought, nor take up any other thing for his study but war and it organization and discipline, for that is the only art that is necessary to one who commands.
The present is theirs the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Hatred may be engendered by good deeds as well as bad ones.
We are always beginning to live, but are never living.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
I mistrust all systemizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
Truth is the mother of hatred.
In a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time and no one is right all the time.
One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down.
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
One repays a teacher badly if one only remains a pupil.
Man is more ape than many of the apes.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
I looked with chameleon eyes upon the changing face of the world, looked with anonymous vision upon my uncompleted self.
My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent With the awful order of things.
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Politicians are the same all over. they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.
Americans expect to eat and stay thin, to be constantly on the move and ever more neighborly...to revere God and be God.
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
The family is the country of the heart.
I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.
Listen to your heart, because in the end it is your heart that matters.
The lazy man always does twice the work.
(El bago siempre pasa double trabajo)
(El bago siempre pasa double trabajo)
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
Setting loose on the battlefield weapons that are able to learn may be one of the biggest mistakes mankind has ever made. It could also be one of the last.
#3535. Contemporaneous exposition is in general the best.
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable.
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions? especially selfish ones.
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Children are a poor man's wealth.
Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.
The anvil fears no blows.
Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . .
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
If it is not seemly, do it not if it is not true, speak it not.
The talent is in the choices.
Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.
The obvious is always least understood
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.
Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.
A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.
Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read.
Love tells us many things that are not so.
This is the hardest of all to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
No leader sets out to become a leader. People set out to live their lives, expressing themselves fully. When that expression is of value, they become leaders. So the point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, to use yourself completely?all your skills, gifts, and energies?in order to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must, in sum, become the person you started out to be and enjoy the process of becoming.
The ultimate most holy form of theory is action.
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.
Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation know the nature of joy.
Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
"Every man has his price." This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self-sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others.
What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from "justifying" ourselves.
Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
All children are essentially criminal.
Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
Everything is something I decide to do, and there is nothing I have to do.
Any lady who is first lady likes being first lady. I don't care what they say, they like it.
When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.
A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.
There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.
Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
All you earnest young men out to save the world please, have a laugh.
Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - there is nothing small about it.
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig, then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
Virtue is praised but hated. People run away from it, for it is ice-cold and in this world you must keep your feet warm.
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
I wouldn't bet the farm on it, but I'd bet the main house. I wouldn't even bet the outhouse on Mondale.
#3537. Superfluity does not vitiate.
Who is better, they who promote truth over happiness, or happiness over truth?
Who so loves believes the impossible.
This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.
We are always in our own company.
Genealogy is based on the obviously silly idea that there is no such thing as a bastard.
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Man is the cruelest animal.
The great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
One should never know too precisely whom one has married.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
I thank my God everytime I remember you.
When kings the sword of justice first lay down;
They art no kings, though they posess the crown;
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.
They art no kings, though they posess the crown;
Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,
The good of subjects is the end of kings.
Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper.
Eating and scratching want but a beginning.
Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still.
Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.
Tomorrow is often the busiest time of the year.
The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1
2 tons.
2 tons.
A mistake proves that someone stopped talking long enough to do something.
Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman you educate a family.
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
#3528. The law respects form less than substance.
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Always win; but if you must lose, make the person in front of you break the record.
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
I would have made a good Pope.
The first condition of immortality is death.
On stage, I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Assassins!
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.
A man is not finished when he's defeated he's finished when he quits.
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
When a dog acts viciously we assume the reason is poor treatment and training by its owner. When a person acts criminally we look for the explanation in his brain, blood, and urine. When will psychiatrists begin testifying to the incompetence of schizophrenic pit bulls?
To each mortal peradventure earth becomes a new machine.
A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.
To own is to fear.
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
What power has law where only money rules.
Magneto You are a god among insects. Never let anyone tell you different.
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle is a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.
Guess again.
Be as radical as reality.
The home is the chief school of human virtues.
The "highest" states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme value, are actually forms of convulsive epilepsy.
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.
So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.
Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free.
I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantages of others.
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Drink nothing without seeing it Sign nothing without reading it.
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
#3529. That which ought to have been done is to be regarded as done.
THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal.
I show you doubt, to prove that faith exists.
The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
There is no disinfectant like success.