L'engle, Madeleine : Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
L'amour, Louis : There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.
La, Jean De : It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent.
La, Jean De : Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
La, Jean De : As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be . . . well paid.
La, Jean De : Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
La, Jean De : From a distance it is something, and nearby it is nothing.
La, Jean De : Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
La, Francois De : We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
La, Francois De : The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest.
La, Francois De : Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.
La, Francois De : Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.
La, Francois De : It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually.
La, Francois De : Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
La, Francois De : There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
La, Francois De : We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others.
La, Francois De : The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind.
La, Francois De : Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
La, Francois De : It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it is ridiculous to show it to others.
Lababidi, Yahia : Aphorisms respect the wisdom of silence by disturbing it, but briefly.
Lababidi, Yahia : One definition of success might be: refining our appetites, while deepening our hunger.
Lafferty, Linda : Any fool can start a war. It takes courage to stop one.
Lamartine, Alphonse De : Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
Lamb, Charles : We do not go to the theatre . . . to escape the pressures of reality so much as to confirm our experience of it.
Landers, Ann : If you want to succeed, be like a duck above the surface act serene and calm, but below the surface, paddle like crazy.
Landers, Ann : If you want to succeed, be like a duck above the surface act serene and calm, but below the surface, paddle like crazy.
Landers, Ann : Retirement means twice the spouse and half the income.
Landers, Ann : For people who want to succeed in life, the following four-letter words are recommended: 'work', 'risk', 'guts', and 'zest'.
Landers, Ann : Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
Landers, Ann : Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.
Landers, Ann : If you want to succeed, be like a duck: above the surface act serene and calm, but below the surface, paddle like crazy.
Landers, Ann : The trouble with life is you're halfway through before you realize it's a do-it-yourself project
Landon, L.E. : Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?
Landor, Walter Savage : We talk on principle, but we act on interest.
Landor, Walter Savage : People will believe a big lie sooner than they will a little lie, and if you repeat it often enough, people will, sooner or later, believe it.
Landor, Walter Savage : What is reading a book but silent conversation?
Langer, Susanne : If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
Larmour, M.W. : The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. Never trying anything new, he is a brake on the wheels of progress.
Lasch, Christopher : The family is a haven in a heartless world.
Laurent, Yves Saint : Fashions fade - style is eternal.
Laurie, Hugh : What is up if you know nothing of down?
Lazarus, Emma : Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free The wretched refuse of your teeming shore) Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me) I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Lazarus, Emma : Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Lazarus, Emma : Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Leahy, Frank : When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Leary, Timothy : Think for yourself and question authority.
Leary, Timothy : Think for yourself and question authority.
Lee, Harper : You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Lee, Stanislaw : Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?
Lee, Harper : The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Lee, Harper : The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Legend, Sioux : The longest journey you will make in your life is from your head to your heart.
Legouve, Gabriel : A brother is a friend given by nature.
Leguin, Ursula K. : You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
Leguin, Ursula K. : The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
Leguin, Ursula K. : The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.
Leguin, Ursula K. : The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.
Lemley, Bill : When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick.
Lennon, John : Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
Lennon, John : Imagine there're no countries, / It isn't hard to do. / Nothing to kill or die for, / And no religion, too. / Imagine all the people / Living life in peace.
Lennon, John : Imagine there's no country, / It isn't hard to do. / Nothing to kill or die for, / And no religion, too. / Imagine all the people / Living life in peace.
Leonard, John : To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness.
Leonard, John : Honor grows from qualms.
Lerner, Harriet : Personal change is inseparable from social and political change.
Leslie, H.T. : The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
Lessig, Lawrence : There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few.
Lessig, Lawrence : We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, I speak as a citizen of the world without others saying, God, what a nut.
Leszczyński, Stanislauw : To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
Levenson, Sam : The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Levenson, Sam : Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Levi, Peter : No hope, no action.
Lewin, Roger : Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Lewis, C.S. : It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
Lewis, Sinclair : When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
Lewis, C.S. : Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.
Lewitsky, Bella : To move freely you must be deeply rooted.
Lichtenberg, G.C. : With most people, doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another.
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph : It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph : To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation.
Lidman, Sven : Through the picture, I see reality. Through the word, I understand it.
Lincoln, Abraham : If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.
Lincoln, Abraham : I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
Lincoln, Abraham : What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
Lincoln, Abraham : I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.
Lincoln, Abraham : I have always found that mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice.
Lincoln, Abraham : Important principles may and must be flexible.
Lincoln, Abraham : You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
Lincoln, Abraham : As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Lincoln, Abraham : Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Lincoln, Abraham : Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Lincoln, Abraham : We here highly resolve that . . . government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.
Lincoln, Abraham : Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the axe.
Lincoln, Abraham : I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Lincoln, Abraham : The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both Congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Lincoln, Abraham : A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.
Lincoln, Abraham : I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Lincoln, Abraham : In the end, it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years.
Lindbergh, Charles A. : What kind of man would live where there is no daring?
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow : I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow : The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow : A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
Lippmann, Walter : Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions . . . are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.
Lippmann, Walter : The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Lippmann, Walter : Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
Locke, John : The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Lofgren, Mike : A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. (Ralph Nader, U.S. activist, author, speaker, and attorney, Born 1934Charity: A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. (Ralph Nader, U.S. activist, author, speaker, and attorney, Born 1934Incarceration: The U.S. incarcerates more people than China - an authoritarian state - with 4 times the U.S. population.
Lofgren, Mike : The U.S. incarcerates more people than China - an authoritarian state - with 4 times the U.S. population.
Lombardi, Vince : Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth : He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail (armorthat none can pierce.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth : Music is the universal language of mankind.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth : If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth : He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of chainmail [armor] that none can pierce.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth : All things come round to him who will but wait.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth : None but yourself who are your greatest foe.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth : All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.
Lorca, Federico Garcia : As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Lorca, Federico Garcia : As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
Lord, Bette Bao : Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
Lorimer, George H. : It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
Lover, Samuel : Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Lowe, Watterson : Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Lowe, Watterson : Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Lowell, James Russell : A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell : No man, or body of men, can dam the stream of language.
Lowell, James Russell : Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Lowell, James Russell : . . . 'tis his at last who says it best.
Lubbock, John : What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Luccock, Sir John : The important thing is not somuch that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
Luce, Clare Boothe : Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.
Luscomb, Florence : The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled land with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and impoverished lives.
Luscomb, Florence : The tragedy in the lives of most of us is that we go through life walking down a high-walled land with people of our own kind, the same economic situation, the same national background and education and religious outlook. And beyond those walls, all humanity lies, unknown and unseen, and untouched by our restricted and impoverished lives.
Luther, Martin : The devil does not stay where music is.
Luther, Martin : An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.
Luther, Martin : One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
Lyly, John : The empty vessel giveth a greater sound than the full barrel.
Lyly, John : All is fair in love and war.
Lynch, David : We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
Lynch, Jack : Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over Windows versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi, and boxers versus briefs.