SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Treat your wastebaskets like babies keep them within reach at all times, feed them frequently, and change them often.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words; your words become your actions; your actions become your habits; your habits become your character; your character becomes your destiny.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It takes a friend and an enemy, working in concert, to hurt you to the core the enemy to slander you and the friend to tell you about it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Native talent is the most evenly distributed resource in the world. It is a resource that can be tapped wherever it is.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Don’t let the sun set without taking a bite out of the road toward your goal.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Life is not a jouirney to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to ski in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a Ride!”
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I fear the use of fear and security as the Damocles over the nation’s people.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Sometimes I think war is God’s way of teaching us geography.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There is no one “history.” Rather, there are just historical perspectives by individuals and/or groups that help piece together chains of events that help explain the past.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Never be afraid to try something new. Remember amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Don’t go down to the cellar until the windstorm hits.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will do.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Every tooth in one’s head is attached to an acupuncture meridian that goes to a different organ in one’s body.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Don’t ever believe that where you are now is the only possibility!
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : As Pogo said, “We have seen the enemy, and it’s us.”
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Start where you are, but don’t stay there.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It’s not the YEARS, it’s the MILEAGE!
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Each and every one of us is a unique musical instrument that echoes her/his distinctive melody. Together we construct the world’s orchestra that makes the universe work.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I may not be able to change the world I see around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words; your words become your actions; your actions become your habits; your habits become your character; your character becomes your destiny.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It takes a friend and an enemy, working in concert, to hurt you to the core the enemy to slander you and the friend to tell you about it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : You can only move forward until you get out of reverse, such as through the Truth and Reconciliation process.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Shown oppression, Africans oppress. A continent so long and brutally violated behaves, no surprise, like a person abused. So . . . Africa rages and inflicts pain—chiefly on itself. This perpetual culling and demeaning of people affects the spirit. Imperialism divided the continent by boundaries that reflect neither natural geography nor ethnicity. Colonialism favored some African peoples over others, inflaming and institutionalizing ethnic rivalries as a matter of policy. The Cold War armed and sustained the cruelest of despots.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : One of the best ways to learn something is to teach it to someone else.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : War should be to effect a humanitarian result — not just to kill people and collect real estate.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The finest diamonds occur under the hottest heat.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A form of governance in which resistance is “feudal.”
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or un-indebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or un-indebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : All great truths begin as blasphemies.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Freedom is the ability to all agree to arrange things in a different way.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : When men realized that women bleed every month and don't die, they became fearful of women's power.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : When men realized that women bleed every month and don't die, they became fearful of women's power.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I always turn to the sports page first which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but people's failures.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Some heroes are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Caesar had the right idea about political control. Give the people bread and circuses [diversion] , and they will go along with it. Almost two thousand years later, the idea still seems to hold true.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The proper role of the news reporter is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast you.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We all have two choices. We can make a living OR we can design a life.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world. Only learning what one does not know can rescue one from the lost world in which everyone claims to have THE answer.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : No to war! War is not always inevitable - it is always a defeat for humanity.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination, political nerve, and diplomatic skill.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Study the past if you divine the future.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There is nothing noble in being superior to some other people. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Education and information without the guiding principles of love and justice lead to the development of guided missiles and misguided men and women.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We live in a world of continuous partial attention.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We must never confuse dissent with disloyalty.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Pick a piece of the problem that you can help solve while trying to see how your piece fits into the broader social change puzzle.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Be the change you wish to see in the world.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never was and never will be.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; but the realist adjusts the sails.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Happiness is an inside job.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If even one percent of our defense budget were given to diplomacy, it would quadruple the amount we are currently spending on diplomacy.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : To engage in serious discussion of race in America, we must begin not with the problems of people of color, but with the flaws of American society-flaws rested in historic inequalities and stereotypes.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It is inaccurate to say I hate everything related to politics. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I am not a teacher but an awakener.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Compassion opens the inner door of the heart.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Trained to kill, Kill we will.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, withouit which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The quality of journalism and the quality of democracy go hand-in-hand.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The U.S. passed from barbarism to decadence, without having passed through civilization.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill-adapted to the purpose.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Those who prefer security over civil rights deserve neither security nor civil rights.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : One of the best reasons to learn something is to give it away.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If the U.S. entered the war [WWI] to make the world safe for democracy, she needed first to make democracy safe in America.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There is no one history. Rather, there are just historical perspectives by individuals and/or groups that help piece together chains of events that help explain the past.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, neither persons nor property will be safe.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Being literate is the only way to be free.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The most useful piece of learning . . . is to unlearn what is untrue.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Social norms are not taught; they are overheard, but the on thing even the most skilled deaf people cannot do is overhear.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are equally unique manifestations of the human spirit.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Government run by organized money is more fearful than government run by organized mobs.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The role of religion should be to inculcate a sense not of infallibility but of humility.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, neither persons nor property will be safe.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : What is history but a fable agreed upon?
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The ultimate measure of a man is not where he [sic] stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If you bury the truth, a thousand lies will sprout from the soil.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : No one can save the one who closes his ears to the truth.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : How can a solution come if everyone is trying to gain more and more? Nobody yet has said, What can I give for a solution, what can I sacrifice to achieve peace?
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The first 25 years of your life, you learn; the next 25 years, you accumulate; the next 25 years, you try to get rid of everything.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Equaity delayed is justice denied.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Contemporary audiences tend to go towards books and plays which deal with actual events, believing that what happens in life is real and what an artist creates is not. In doing so, they fail to recognize how much more valuable than the real thing the unreal thing can be if it tells us the truth about that thing.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There [is] a myth, a pervasive myth, to the effect that if we . . . only learn to speak English well-and particularly without an accent-we would be welcomed into the American fellowship. [However,] the true test is not our speech. That accent is heard in our pigmentation, our physiognomy, our names.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Diversity is desirable only in principle, not in practice. Long live diversity . . . as long as it conforms to my standards, my mindset, my view of life, my sense of order.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I slept and dreamed that life was happiness. I awoke and saw that life was service. I served and found that in service, happiness is found.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : No matter how exalted we think ourselves, how high we have risen, we nevertheless bear the indelible stamp of our lowly origin . . . from so simple a beginning-endless forms, most beautiful, most wonderful, have been or are being evolved.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Never be afraid to try something new. Remember; Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the pathway of the strong.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Those who have a why or what to live for can bear almost any how.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : An education that teaches us to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is for us to learn to do something about making the world a better place.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A person is a person through other persons.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : How do I know what I think until I see what I write?
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Do you know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : You can get busy living, or get busy dying.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I tend to think that those who leave us will live even stronger in our lives as the years go by.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The greatest gift of youth is to be unaware that life is fragile.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social upliftis is approaching spiritual doom.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance of the need to change.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Chance favors the prepared mind.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The most flexible mode of expression is dialogue.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I dreamed of a thousand paths. I awoke to find mine and to follow it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Those who wander are not necessarily lost.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We have no money, so we will have to think.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : What one needs in life are the pessimism of intelligence and the optimism of will.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : What one needs in life are the pessimism of intelligence and the optimism of will.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Silence is complicity.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Words are loaded pistols.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Love, friendship, respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Leaders need to know who they are-including how others see them.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : You should make the most of this time and place in your life, for never again will you inhabit an environment so challenging and yet so nurturing, so rigorous and yet so forgiving.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There are no extraordinary people, only ordinary people with extraordinary challenges to take on.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The process of a living language is like the motion of a broad river which flows with a slow, silent, irresistible current.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The study of word origins points to our common humanity.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If people empty their purse into their heads, no one can take it away from them, for an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of the missing drop.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If we are to reach real peace in this world . . . we shall have to begin with the children.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Evil is like a shadow - it has no real substance of its own; it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, by stamping on it. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The children of Adam are limbs to each other, having been created of one essence.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We always use evil to prevent greater evil. How much evil must be done to achieve good?
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The manuscript of nature is the true scripture.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The seeds of poverty are with institutions, not individuals.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the efficiency of transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Go to where the silence is and say something.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : America-the nation of the bullet as well as the ballot, and unlikely to change.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep. (Henry Maudsley, pioneering British psychiatrist
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : What we have done for OURSELVES alone, dies with us; what we have done for OTHERS and the WORLD remains and is immortal.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Luck is what happens when it meets preparation.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If your vision is for one year, plant rice; if your vision is for 10 years, plant trees; but if your vision is for 100 years, educate youth.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : So much in the world has been destroyed that I have cast my lot with those who, age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Each living creature [is[ a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars of heaven.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Whenever we exploit the earth, we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich; it is a way to be rich.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The benchmark of greatness is finding joy in loving and serving others.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It is a sad world that exists only in the present, unaware of the long procession that brought us here.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Advertising is legalized lying.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : In matters of conscience the law of majority has no place.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Old age is when we begin extolling the past at the expense of the present.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : An individual human existence should be like a river. Small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Experience is not what happens to people; it is what they do with what happens to them.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so we weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : History is often overly informed by memory rather than by assessing the facts, telling the story, and rendering a judgment.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : When nothing seems to help, I think of a stone-cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before together.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Every man possesses three characters. That which he exhibits, that which he really has, and that which he believes he has.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It is well to know something of the manners of various peoples, in order more sanely to judge our own, and that we do not think that everything against our modes is ridiculous, and against reason, as those who have seen nothing are accustomed to think.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The important thing is not somuch that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The excesses of our youth are drafts of our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Capitalism desacralizes nature and makes it a commodity for exploitation and profit.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Gullibility and credulity are considered undesirable qualities in every department of human life -- except religion.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . it expects what never was and never will be.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has taken place.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you will see.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Life is a long lesson in humility.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : While some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : 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.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A cult is a religion with no political power.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. Similarly, there are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It is not just what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. (Mark Twain, author and humorist
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : God created sex; priests created marriage.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the world.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : War is the enemy of the poor.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There is more to life than increasing its speed.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If architects want to strengthen an old arch, they put more weight on it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Sweet are the uses of adversity.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I will believe that corporations are real people when Texas decides not to execute them.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you . . . and you win.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A bad reader is like a bad translator. He interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Language is the armory of the human mind; at once it contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I have studied [the dictionary] often, but I never could discover the plot.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened but of what people believe happened.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Political action is best when it accomplishes the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : One must pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while still alive.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If you want something talked about, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Great progress flows from once laughable ideas - such as moon colonization.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Honor grows from qualms.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his brain [head]. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Most people think that shadows follow, precede, or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Political equality is meaningless in the face of economic inequality.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : [We have] socialism for the rich and rugged free-market capitalism for the poor.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The evils of free-market capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A man without a vote is a man without protection.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Never cut what you can untie.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : When you feel less than, you spend more than.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : In taming our inner dragons, the energy of old and, often, unconscious habits and personal complexes may too frequently overpower our fragile intentions.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Language is a city to which every human being brought a stone for the building of it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural - while it was recent.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The forests are my lungs outside the body.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If only I may grow firmer, simpler -- quieter, warmer.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive; they walk and run.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Read one thousand books AND walk one thousand miles.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that, said the Queen.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Religious canons all too often lead to cannons!
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It takes a long time to become young.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The Negro knows nothing of Africa [said to have been expressed with pain and distress].
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There is nothing…to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Walking is also an ambulation of mind.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Life is a foreign language; most men mispronounce it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If only closed minds came with closed mouths!
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The welfare of each of us is dependent upon the welfare of all of us.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Some words in a dictionary are very much like a car in a large motor show -- full of potential, but temporarily inactive.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best -- and therefore never scrutinize or question.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Creativity is the residue of wasted time.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : By words the mind is winged.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, explore the glen, stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Language is anonymous, collective, and unconscious, the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Perfection is the enemy of good.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : No man, or body of men, can dam the stream of language.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : People change and forget to tell each other.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The arc of the moral universe is long but bends toward justice.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Seek not to follow in the footsteps of men of old; seek what they sought.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : 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.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : 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.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : When plunder [corruption] becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves . . . a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Stability in language is synonymous with rigor mortis.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Personal change is inseparable from social and political change.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Principles should be guideposts, not roadblocks.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If politics is the art of the possible, compromise is the artistry of democracy.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If politics is the art of the possible, compromise is the artistry of democracy. (Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thomason
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Live below your means but within your needs.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The words a father speaks to his children in the privacy of the home are not overheard at the time, but, as in whispering galleries, they will be clearly heard at the end and by posterity.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The ring always believes that the finger lives for it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : As long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : As long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : On your deathbed, you regret what you didn't do rather than what you did do.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep 
grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Education is the vaccination for prevention of poverty.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Every time I hear that dirty word 'exercise' I wash my mouth out with chocolate.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Imagine that if trees gave Wi-Fi, we would all be planting trees like crazy and would end deforestation. It's a pity that they only produce the oxygen that we breathe to live.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : When two languages bump into each other, they borrow stuff. We call it borrowing, except words don't need to be returned. Sharing is what makes the world go round.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If it bleeds, it leads [in coverage].
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The most expensive thing in the world is trust, which takes years to earn and only a matter of seconds to lose.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The president proposes and Congress disposes.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : LISTEN and SILENT are spelled with the same letters. Think about it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Life gives everyone a second chance; it’s called tomorrow.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Chaos often brings life while order brings habit.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Stars cannot shine without darkness.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Some days you tame the tiger. And some days the tiger has you for lunch.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : He who laughs, lasts.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Judge each day not by its harvest, but by the seeds you plant.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A mistake is not a failure, but rather it’s evidence that someone tried to do something.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Failure is not in losing, but in no longer believing that winning is worthwhile.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Failure is not sweet, but it need not be bitter.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And LOW, no one was there!
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Children have become so expensive that only the poor can afford them.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Keep in mind. . . to a dog you are family, to a cat you are staff.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The rich know not who is his friend.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Good company upon the road is the shortest cut.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : She: ‘Before we got married, you told me you were well-off.’ He: ‘I was and didn’t know it.’ Jacob Braude, U.S. writer of wit and humor books)
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A gentleman is man who can disagree without being disagreeable.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If Jesus was Jewish, how come he has a Mexican name?
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We can’t always choose the music life plays for us, but we can choose how we dance to it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Bullying is children experimenting with social power.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your wordsyour words become your actionsyour actions become your habitsyour habits become your characteryour character becomes your destiny.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : When two egoists meet, it becomes a situation of an I for an I.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The finest diamonds occur under the hottest heat.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A form of governance in which resistance is feudal.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Enhancing the freedom of some usually means depriving the freedom of others.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Enhancing the freedom of some usually means depriving the freedom of others.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Remember the three Ds: Do it, Delegate it, or Dump it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We are all part of the Ocean of Consciousness - in its beauty, vibrancy, majesty, power, expansiveness, and serenity. Each of us may be seen as a wave and never alone.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The extinction of a language is equivalent to the extinction of a species.... If we lose a different way of linguistically organizing thought, we lose a possible way of seeing reality.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Treat your wastebaskets like babies: Keep them within reach at all times, feed them frequently, and change them often.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Problems are opportunities in overalls.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It takes a friend and an enemy, working in concert, to hurt you to the core: the enemy to slander you and the friend to tell you about it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : You can only move forward until you get out of reverse, such as through the Truth and Reconciliation process.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : War is only good for the countries who sell the weapons.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The excesses of our youth are drafts of our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. (Charles Caleb Colton, English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I will believe that corporations are real people when Texas decides not to execute them.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If only closed minds came with closed mouths!
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Equaity delayed is justice denied.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Good friends are like quilts; they age with you, yet never lose their warmth.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A gulf of unshared experience gapes between generations.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There is no one history. Rather, there are just historical perspectives by individuals and/or groups that help piece together chains of events that help explain the past.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his brain
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The first 25 years of your life, you learn; the next 25 years, you accumulate; the next 25 years, you try to get rid of everything.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Religious canons all too often lead to cannons!
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Never be afraid to try something new. Remember: Amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Wisdom is having a lot to say and not always saying it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The status of women in a country is a good indicator of the health of its economy.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Do not regret growing older; it is a privilege denied to many.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Anger is the camouflage of sadness.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We are in the world in relationship with others. Our capacity to realize our own objectives is inextricably wrapped up with the capacity of others to realize theirs.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Dictionaries are spellbinders.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Discipline and creativity are like yin and yang. Both are entirely different and yet without each other, they are nothing.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There are three kinds of people in the world: those who make things happen: and those who watch things happen; and those who wonder what happened.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : You have to have an egg to make an omelet
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Life is not so much about the breath that we take but rather about those moments that take our breath away - those precious memories.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A mother is only as happy as her least happy child.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Parenting is a lifetime sentence.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It takes a lot of courage to be weak.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The master is as tied to the slave as the slave is tied to the master.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We are the best teachers when we are active learners.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We have enough youth. How about a fountain of smart?
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Growing old may be mandatory, but growing up is optional.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : You never feel so alive as when you are close to death.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Education is the vaccination for prevention of poverty.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Faith is knowing there is an ocean when you can only see the stream.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Stories unite people: theories divide them.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : People are like bicycles; they can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It is the questions in life that move us forward, not the answers.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Tough times never last, but tough people do.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Sometimes you win: sometimes you learn.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Disbelief is a form of belief.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Giving rarely moves in a straight line; it usually moves in circles.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The soul of the grandchild lives in the heart of the grandmother.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If it bleeds, it leads
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : When you change the way you view things, the things you look at change.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : What other people think about you is none of your business.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Teachers make all other professions possible.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Not all wanderers are lost.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : For the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The turtle only moves ahead by sticking out its neck.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I cried because I had no shoes. Then I saw a man who had no feet.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair, and takes it away from you when it rains.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Dissent is not only patriotic, it is the essence of what being an American is all about.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The challenge is to live consciously and intentionally.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It often shows a fine command of language to say nothing.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Call my bluff or take my guff.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Most problems are really the absence of ideas.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Some people have minds like cement---all mixed up and permanently set.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Great complexity is easier to perceive at times than great simplicity.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Better to suffer in a novel situation than to be comfortable in the same old rut.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The time to win a fight is before it starts.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch thingshappen, and those who wonder what happened.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The tragedy of life is not in the fact of death, but in what dies inside while you live.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Nothing about human life is more precious than that we can define our own purpose and shape our own destiny.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We must each ask ourselves: What is the right and creative thing for me to do in this hour---and do it!
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If you allow weak leadership, then you must contend with it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The perfect helmsman is the one who risks with caution.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Study without action is futile; action without study is fatal.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The followership has a responsibility for creating good leadership.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Anybody who tries to be something to everybody is nobody to anybody.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in a female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Nothing is more beautiful than the visiting of memories, EXCEPT, of course, the making of them.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If you have arthritis, calmly say, I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It is not yours to necessarily finish the task, but neither are you free to take no part in it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Wrinkles are the service stripes of life.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Aging seems to be the only available way to live a longer life.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Not old, just bikini-impaired!
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Too early old, too late smart!
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : There are more people in China who speak English than there are in the U.S.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : I am an atheist, thank God!
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If your lips would keep from slips, five things to observe with care are: To whom you speak, of whom you speak, and how, and when, and where.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Adversity introduces a man to himself.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Friends are lifelines!
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A company is judged by the president it keeps.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : People differ: Some object to the dancer, and others to the fan.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Hope is the last thing to abandon the unhappy.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Hope lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see-and hits it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : He who laughs, lasts.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Never expect to find happiness in the same place you lost it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Some pursue happiness, others create it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : To improve your memory, lend people money.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Hell is truth seen too late.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Never of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Never of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Men are what their mothers made them. Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : We don’t have to agree on anything to be kind to one another.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If you want your ship to come in, you must build a dock.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The most delightful advantage of being bald - one can hear snowflakes.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Horsepower was a wonderful thing when only horses had it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone . . . who alone can deliver us from solitude.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Do not pray by heart, but with the heart.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Nothing is discussed more and practiced less than prayer.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : A prayer, in its simplest definition, is merely a wish turned heavenward.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : What the devil needs is for good people to remain silent.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Prayer is the world's greatest wireless connection.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The best way out of a problem is through it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you're too old to get the job.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic, and more time to drive to the office.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : God hath made of one blood all nations of men.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Life guarantees a chance---not a fair shake.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Luck is good planning, carefully executed.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : For Christian Lent, I gave up my new year's resolutions.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Retirement: Twice as much spouse, half as much pay.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It could've been.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Safety first has been the motto of the human race for half a million years; but it has never been the motto of leaders.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : You know it's time for change when children act like leaders and leaders act like children.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or un-indebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Start where you are, but don't stay there.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Anger is only one letter short of danger.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The measure of power is not based on how many you beat down but how many you lift up.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Self-pity is one of the most dangerous forms of self-centeredness. It fogs our vision.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If it is to be, it is up to me.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : LISTEN and SILENT are spelled with the same letters. Think about it.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Education is the vaccination for prevention of poverty.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Twinkle, twinkle, little star! How I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky!
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race, religion, or wealth.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : The wise don't expect to find life worth living; they make it that way.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : If it is to be, it is up to me.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there.
SOURCE, UNKNOWN : Fear is faith that it won't work out.