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PAIN : The pain of holding on is always greater than the pain of letting go. (Robert Tew)

PAIN : One cannot get through life without pain.... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us. (Bernie S. Siegel, U.S. writer and retired pediatric surgeon, Born 1932)

PAIN : People who are hurting hurt others. (Kathryn Grody Patinkin, U.S. actress and writer, Born 1946)

PAIN : It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone. (Rose Kennedy, U.S. philanthropist, socialite, centenarian, and the mother of nine children, including President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and longtime Senator Ted Kennedy, 1890-1995)

PAIN : The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. (William Hazlitt, English essayist and literary critic, 1778-1830)

PAINTING : Painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. (Joan Miro, Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist, 1893-1983)

PAINTING : Painting is the song of the brush. (Chinese proverb)

PARANOIA : I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. (J. D. Salinger, U.S. writer, known for his widely-read novel, The Catcher in the Rye, 1919-2010)

PARANOIA : I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. (Unknown Source)

PARENTHOOD : Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. (Marcelene Cox, U.S. writer, 1899-1998)

PARENTING : 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. (Jean Paul Richter, German Romantic writer, 1763-1825)

PARENTING : Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. (John Wilmot, English Earl and poet, 1647-1680)

PARENTING : Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves. (Marcelene Cox, U.S. writer, 1899-1998)

PARENTING : If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. (Thomas Paine, U.S. philosopher and writer, 1737-1809)

PARENTING : Come Mothers and fathers throughout the land. And don't criticize what you can't understand. Your sons and daughters are beyond your command. (Bob Dylan, U.S. Nobel Prize laureate, singer, painter, and songwriter [The Times They Are A-Changinï¿½], Born 1941)

PARENTING : When a newborn child squeezes for the first time with his tiny fist his father's finger, he has him trapped forever. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian novelist, journalist, Nobel laureate, Born 1927)

PARENTING : A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. (Unknown Source)

PARENTING : Let your children go if you want to keep them. (Malcolm Forbes, U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, 1919-1990)

PARENTING : Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, / Who loved thee so fondly as he? / He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, / And joined in thy innocent glee. (Margaret Courtney, British poet and folklorist, 1822-1862)

PARENTING : An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. (Spanish proverbMaturity: The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, 1905-1980Insight: The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. (Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, 1905-1980Aging: You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. (Woody Allen, U.S. actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright, Born 1935)

PARENTING : There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. (Hodding Carter III, journalist and politician, Born 1935)

PARENTING : He that spareth his rod hateth his son. (The Bible)

PARENTING : Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)

PARENTING : When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when his son gives to his father, both cry. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

PARENTING : What's done to children, they will do to society. (Karl A. Menninger, U.S. psychiatrist, 1893-1990)

PARENTING : An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. (Spanish proverb)

PARENTING : The thing that impresses me most about North America is the way parents obey their children. (Edward, Duke of Windsor, King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, 1894-1972)

PARENTING : The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. (Theodore Hesburgh, U.S. priest who served for 35 years as the president of the University of Notre Dame, 1917-2015)

PARENTING : A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents. (Unknown source)

PARENTING : The child is father of the man. (William Wordsworth, English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature, 1770-1850)

PARENTING : Parenting is a lifetime sentence. (Unknown source)

PASSION : Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. (Jean de la Fontaine, French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, 1621-1695)

PASSION : Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher whose canonical stature within Western philosophy is universally recognized, 1770-1831)

PASSIONLESS : People who never get carried away should be. (Malcolm Forbes, U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, 1919-1990)

PASSIONS : Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire. (Francois de la La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

PASSIONS : Those who have a why or what to live for can bear almost any how. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

PASSIONS : Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire. (Unknown Source)

PASSIONS : Those who have a why or what to live for can bear almost any how. (Unknown Source)

PASSIONS : Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide. Those who look outwards dream but those who look inwards awake. (Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, 1875-1961)

PASSIVE RESISTANCE : It takes a lot of courage to be weak. (Unknown source)

PAST : In reflecting on your past, don't obscure the future. (Stacy Keach, U.S. actor and narrator, Born 1941)

PAST : Stop breathing life into the past. It died for a reason. (Robert Tew)

PAST : The longer you live in the past, the less future you have to enjoy. (Robert Tew)

PAST : The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. (Eckhart Tolle, German-born resident of Canada, influential spiritual writer, Born 1948)

PATHWAYS : If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed. (Chinese proverb)

PATIENCE : The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

PATIENCE : All things come round to him who will but wait. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, U.S. poet and educator, 1807-1882)

PATIENCE : Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. (Chinese proverb)

PATIENCE : Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

PATIENCE : Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

PATIENCE : The secret of patience ... to do something else in the meantime. (Unknown source)

PATIENCE : Patience is also a form of action. (Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, 1840-1917)

PATRIOT : It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)

PATRIOT : A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government. (Edward Abbey, U.S. naturalist, author, and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, 1927-1989)

PATRIOTISM : I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. (Edith Cavell, British humanitarian and nurse who s celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides without discrimination, 1865-1915)

PATRIOTISM : Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. (Guy de Maupassant, French writer, remembered as a master of the short story form, 1850-1893)

PATRIOTISM : 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. (Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President-as quoted upon seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time, 1858-1919)

PATRIOTISM : Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you wereborn in it. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

PATRIOTISM : When a whole nation is roaring 'Patriotism' at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of heart. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

PATRIOTISM : We must never confuse dissent with disloyalty. (Unknown Source)

PATRIOTISM : Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels. (Unknown Source)

PATRIOTISM : Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

PATRIOTISM : Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. (Guy de Maupassant, French short story writer and novelist, 1850-1893Belief: No amount of belief makes something a fact. (James Randi, Canadian American magician and skeptic, Born 1928Connectedness: Pick a flower on earth and you move the farthest star. (Paul Dirac, English theoretical physicist, 1902-1984Nature: Pick a flower on earth and you move the farthest star. (Paul Dirac, English theoretical physicist, 1902-1984Rights: The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. (Robert Green Ingersoll, U.S. lawyer and orator, 1833-1899Life: The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. (John Galsworthy, English author, Nobel Prize winner, 1867-1933Conscience: There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. (Ogden Nash, U.S. poet, 1902-1971Pain: People who are hurting hurt others. (Kathryn Grody Patinkin, U.S. actress and writer, Born 1946)

PATRIOTISM : Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched. (Unknown Source)

PATRIOTISM : The man who is always waving the flag usually waives what it stands for. (Laurence J. Peter, Canadian educator and author, as well as the creator of the Peter Principle, 1919-1990)

PATRIOTISM : Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

PATRIOTISM : Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

PATRIOTISM : When a whole nation is roaring ï¿½Patriotismï¿½ at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of heart. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

PEACE : Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. (John F. Kennedy, U.S. politician and 35th U.S. president, 1917-1963)

PEACE : A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war. (Henry Van Dyke, U.S. poet, 1852-1933)

PEACE : We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)

PEACE : Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. politician and Army general who served as the 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969)

PEACE : 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? (Tony Angastiniotis, Greek Cypriot human rights activist and documentary-maker, Born 1966)

PEACE : Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew. (John Greenleaf Whittier, U.S. Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States, 1807-1892)

PEACE : Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us. (Sargent Shriver, U.S. politician, activist, the driving force behind the U.S. Peace Corps, and founder of the Job Corps and Head Start, 1915-2011)

PEACE : To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. (George Washington, U.S. statesman, military leader, and one of the Founders of the U.S. who also served as the first President of the United States, 1732-1799)

PEACE : Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)

PEACE : How can a solution come if everyone is trying to gain more and more? Nobody yet has said, ï¿½What can I give for a solution, what can I sacrifice to achieve peace?ï¿½ (Tony Angastiniotis, Greek Cypriot human rights activist and documentary-maker, Born 1966)

PEACE : 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? (Unknown Source)

PEACE : I like to say that arms are not for killing. They are for hugging. (Betty Williams, Irish peace activist, Nobel laureate , Born 1943)

PEACE : Just as war begins in the minds of men, so does peace. (Unknown Source)

PEACE : If we are to reach real peace in this world . . . we shall have to begin with the children. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

PEACE : We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools. (Unknown Source)

PEACE : 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. (John Lennon, English musician, singer, and songwriter who was a founding member of the rock band, the Beatles, 1940-1980)

PEACE : Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. (Aeschylus, ancient Greek playwright, 525-456 BC)

PEACE : If we are to reach real peace in this world . . . we shall have to begin with the children. (Unknown Source)

PEACE : Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world. (Pearl Buck, U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

PEDESTAL : A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space. (Gloria Steinem, U.S. feminist, journalist, and social and political activist, Born 1934)

PEN : The pen is mightier than the sword. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, English politician and writer who coined other phrases, such as Pursuit of the almighty dollar and The great unwashed, 1803-1873)

PEOPLE : Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

PEOPLE : There are two kinds of people on earth â€” the people who lift and the people who lean. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox, U..S. author and poet, 1850-1919)

PEOPLE : We here highly resolve that . . . government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician who served as the 16th U.S. President, 1809-1865)

PEOPLE : People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and pioneer in near-death studies and the five stages of grief, 1926-2004)

PERCEPOTION : Where you stand depends on where you sit. (Rufus Miles, U.S. author and Federal administrator who served as an assistant secretary under three presidents, 1910-1996)

PERCEPTION : You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. (Harper Lee, U.S. Pulitzer Prize winner for the book To Kill a Mockingbird, 1926-2016)

PERCEPTION : The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. (William Makepeace Thackeray, English novelist, 1811-1863)

PERCEPTION : When you change the way you view things, the things you look at change. (UNKNOWN SOURCE)

PERCEPTION : It's not what you look at that matters; it's what you see. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

PERCEPTION : The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. (William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, 1865-1939)

PERCEPTION : It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author and aviator, 1900-1944)

PERCEPTION : Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher, c. 551-478 BCE)

PERCEPTION : The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. (Henri Bergson, French-Jewish philosopher who was known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality, 1859-1941)

PERCEPTION : I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. (Kurt Vonnegut, U.S. writer, 1922-2007)

PERCEPTION : The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. (Unknown Source)

PERCEPTION : I stopped explaining myself when I realized people only understand from their level of perception. (Kevin Gates, U.S. rapper, singer, and entrepreneur, Born 1986)

PERCEPTION : Through the picture, I see reality. Through the word, I understand it. (Sven Lidman, Swedish military officer, poet, writer, and preacher, 1882-1960)

PERCEPTION : Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden. (Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, 428-347 BCE)

PERCEPTION : Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. (Laura Ingalls Wilder, U.S. novelist, 1867-1957)

PERCEPTION : A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author and aviator, 1900-1944)

PERCEPTION : To be blind is bad, but it is worse to have eyes and not see. (Helen Adams Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

PERFECTION : Perfection is the enemy of good. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)

PERFECTION : Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order. (Anne Wilson Schaef, U.S. author, speaker, consultant, and seminar leader, Born 1935)

PERFECTION : The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. (Johann von Goethe, German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

PERFECTION : A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. (John Henry Cardinal Newman, British theologian, poet, and Catholic cardinal, 1801-1890)

PERFECTION : To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. (John Henry Cardinal Newman, British theologian, poet, and Catholic cardinal, 1801-1890)

PERFECTION : Error is mortal. (Mary Baker Eddy, U.S. writer and religious leader who established the Church of Christ, Scientist, founder of The Christian Science Monitor, a global newspaper that has won seven Pulitzer Prizes, and was an inductee to the Womenâ€™s National Hall of Fame,)

PERFECTION : Friendships aren't perfect, and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release. (Letty Cottin Pogrebin, U.S. author, journalist, lecturer, social activist, and a founding editor of Ms. Magazine, Born 1939)

PERFECTION : Perfectionism is self-abuse of the highest order. (Anne Wilson Schaef, U.S. author, speaker, and consultant)

PERFECTION : Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. (Robert Hillyer, U.S. poet and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1895-1961)

PERFECTION : The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. (Eugene Delacroix, French artist who was known as the leader of the French Romantic school, 1798-1963)

PERFECTION : 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. (M.W. Larmour)

PERFECTION : You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds. (Margaret Mead, U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978)

PERFECTION : Perfection is the enemy of good. (Unknown Source)

PERFECTIONISM : The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all. (Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist, conductor, and composer, 1876-1973)

PERPLEXITY : Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

PERSEVERANCE : If there's no struggle, there's no progress. (Frederick Douglass, African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895)

PERSEVERANCE : 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. (Lewis Carroll, English writer, mathematician, and logician whose most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1832-1898)

PERSEVERANCE : 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. (Jacob A. Riis, Danish-American social reformer, journalist, and social documentary photographer, 1849-1914)

PERSEVERANCE : If you're going through hell, keep going. (Winston Churchill, British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

PERSEVERANCE : Burn brightly without burning out. (Richard Biggs, U.S. television and stage actor, 1960-2004)

PERSISTENCE : If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, U.S. poet and educator, 1807-1882)

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT : If only I may grow firmer, simpler -- quieter, warmer. (Unknown Source)

PERSONALITY : Personal change is inseparable from social and political change. (Harriet Lerner, U.S. clinical psychologist and contributor to feminist theory and therapy, Born 1944)

PERSONALITY : However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. (Eric Hoffer, U.S. moral and social philosopher, author, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

PERSONALITY : Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming. (Johann von Goethe, German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

PERSONALITY : Personal change is inseparable from social and political change. (Unknown Source)

PERSUASION : Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. (Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

PESSIMISM : Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege. (William Beveridge, British economist and social reformer, 1879-1963)

PESSIMISM : A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better. (Unknown source)

PESSIMISM : What one needs in life are the pessimism of intelligence and the optimism of will. (Unknown Source)

PESSIMISM - OPTIMISM : What one needs in life are the pessimism of intelligence and the optimism of will. (Andre DeStark, Belgian Ambassador to NATO)

PETS : Keep in mind. . . to a dog you are family, to a cat you are staff. (Unknown source)

PHILANTHROPY : To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. (Horace Mann, U.S. liberal politician and reformer known for his commitment to promoting public education, 1796-1859)

PHILANTHROPY : Steal the hog, and give the feet for alms. (George Edward Herbert, English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)

PHILANTHROPY : I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. (The Bible)

PHILANTHROPY : It's best to give while your hand is still warm. (Philip Roth, U.S. novelist, Born 1933)

PHILANTHROPY : To have and not to give is often worse than to steal. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer, 1830-1916)

PHILOSOPHY : Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

PHILOSOPHY : A recognition of the conflicts between men, a search for their cause, a condemnation of mere opinion .. . and the discovery of a standard of judgment. (Epictetus, Greek Stoic philosopher, 55-135 A.D.)

PHILOSOPHY : The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. (Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and leader in understanding atomic structure and quantum theory for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1885-1962)

PHILOSOPHY : The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. (Henry Ward Beecher, U.S. clergyman and social reformer, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

PHILOSOPHY : Philosophy is doubt. (Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre, 1553-1592)

PHILOSOPHY : In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. (Havelock Ellis, English physician, writer, and progressive social reformer who studied human sexuality, 1859-1939)

PHILOSOPHY : Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy. (Joseph Joubert, French moralist and essayist, 1754-1824)

PHILOSOPHY : The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and advocacy for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

PHOTOGRAPHY : Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism. (Susan Sontag, U.S. writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist, 1933-2004)

PHOTOGRAPHY : The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance. (Ansel Adams, U.S. landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the western U.S., 1902-1984)

PHOTOGRAPHY : The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. (Susan Sontag, U.S. writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist, 1933-2004)

PHOTOGRAPHY : Life is not about significant details, illuminated in a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. (Susan Sontag, U.S. writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist, 1933-2004)

PHOTOGRAPHY : Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. (Edward Steichen, Luxembourgish -American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator, 1879-1973)

PHOTOGRAPHY : Every photographer is a painter trying to get out. (Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

PHYSIOLOGY : 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. (Unknown Source)

PHYSIOLOGY : Every tooth in one’s head is attached to an acupuncture meridian that goes to a different organ in one’s body. (Unknown source)

PLAGIARISM : Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others. (Charlotte Cushman, U.S. stage actress, 1816-1876)

PLAGIARISM : When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies, Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

PLANNING : If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first four hours sharpening the axe. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician who served as the 16th U.S. President, 1809-1865)

PLANNING : Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. (John Lennon, English musician, singer, and songwriter who was a founding member of the rock band, the Beatles, 1940-1980)

PLAYS : Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. (Thornton Wilder, U.S. novelist and playwright who won three Pulitzer Prizes, 1897-1975)

PLEASURE : The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Jean Paul Richter, German Romantic writer, 1763-1825)

PLEASURE : There are three ingredients in the good life; learning, earning, and yearning. (Christopher Morley, U.S. journalist, novelist, essayist and poet, 1890-1957)

PLEASURE : The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. (Aaron Burr, U.S. politician. Lawyer, and third U.S. vice president serving during President Thomas Jefferson's first term., 1756-1836)

PLEASURE : There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness. (Hafez, Persian poet whose work is said to have influenced post-14th century Persian writing more than any other author, 1315-1390)

PLEASURE : Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality. (Nicolas de Chamfort, French writer, 1741-1794)

PLURALSIM : To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite our tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism. We have to save each other. It is the only way to save ourselves. (Eboo Patel, U.S. founder of Interfaith Youth Core, Born 1975)

POETRY : Poetry came before reading and writing. (Camron Wright, U.S. author)

POETRY : Before reading and writing was poetry. (Camron Wright, U.S. author)

POETRY : Poetry, the eldest sister of all arts, and parent of most. (William Congreve, English playwright and poet of the Restoration period who is known for his clever, satirical dialogue, 1670-1729)

POETRY : Poetry, therefore, we will call â€˜Musical Thought.â€™ (Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

POETRY : One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

POETRY : If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone. (Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet who was highly critical of much in Victorian society, 1840-1928)

POETRY : The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)

POETRY : The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance and the human voice. (Earle Birney, Canadian poet and novelist, 1904-1995)

POETRY : Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do. (Cyril Connolly, English literary critic and writer, 1903-1974)

POETRY : For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. (Sylvia Plath, U.S. poet, novelist, and short-story writer, 1932-1963)

POETRY : For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. (Robert Penn Warren, U.S. poet, novelist, literary critic, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, 1905-1989)

POETRY : Science is for those who learn; poetry for those who know. (Joseph Roux, French Catholic parish priest, poet, and philologist, 1834-1905)

POETRY : Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry. (William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, 1865-1939)

POETRY : A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. (Robert Frost, U.S. poet who received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

POETRY : Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down. (Robert Frost, U.S. poet who received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

POETRY : Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment. (Carl Sandburg, U.S. poet, biographer, journalist, and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln, 1878-1967)

POETRY : Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind. (Maxwell Bodenheim, U.S. poet and novelist whose writing brought him international notoriety during the Jazz Age of the 1920s, 1892-1954)

POETS : No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher. (Harley Coleridge, English poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher who was the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1796-1849)

POETS : All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, U.S. poet and educator whose works include Paul Revere's Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline, 1807-1882)

POETS : Every man is a poet when he is in love. (Plato, Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 â€“ 348/347 B.C.E.)

POETS : The poet is the priest of the invisible. (Wallace Stevens, U.S. modernist poet and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems, 1879-1955)

POETS : Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. (George Santayana, U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

POISON : One man's meat is another's poison. (English proverb)

POLITENESS : Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy. (Ambrose Bierce, U.S. Civil War soldier, wit, writer, and editor, 1842-1914)

POLITENESS : Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. (Eric Hoffer, U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

POLITENESS : Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts. (Abel Stevens, U.S. clergyman, editor, and author of religious history, 1815-1897)

POLITICAL ACTIVISM : There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting. (A.J.P. Taylor, English historian, 1906-1990)

POLITICAL ACTIVISM : There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting. (Unknown Source)

POLITICIANS : A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. (Texas Guinan, U.S. actress, producer, and entrepreneur, 1884-1933)

POLITICIANS : Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. (Nikita Khrushchev, Russian politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 1894-1971)

POLITICIANS : Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

POLITICIANS : Nations are born in the hearts of poets, but they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. (Sir Mohammad Iqbal, poet-philosopher and politician of British India, 1877-1938)

POLITICIANS : We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Aesop, ancient Greek storyteller, 620-564 BCE)

POLITICIANS : Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. (Unknown Source)

POLITICIANS : I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. (Unknown Source)

POLITICIANS : If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world. (Claude Pepper, U.S. senator and representative, 1900-1989Arrogance: The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. (Stephen Jay Gould, U.S. paleontologist, biologist, author, 1941-2002Journalists: You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. (Jessica Mitford, English journalist and civil rights activist, 1917-1996Fishing: Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

POLITICIANS : It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he adores the flag. (Kin Hubbard, U.S. cartoonist, humorist, and journalist, 1868-1930)

POLITICS : Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. (Ronald Reagan, U.S. politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States, 1911-2004)

POLITICS : 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. (Unknown source)

POLITICS : Money is the mother's milk of politics. (Jesse Unruh, U.S. Democratic politician, 1922-1987)

POLITICS : History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. (Aba Eban, Israeli politician and diplomat, 1915-2002)

POLITICS : If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it. (Unknown source)

POLITICS : We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Aesop, ancient Greek storyteller, 620-564 BCE)

POLITICS : If politics is the art of the possible, compromise is the artistry of democracy. (Amy Gutmann, U.S. Professor of Political Science and President of the University of Pennsylvania, Born 1949)

POLITICS : All the peasant revolutions of the 20th century have been against the predatory and disruptive effects of capitalism. (Mao Zedong, Chinese communist revolutionary, political theorist and founder of the People's Republic of China, 1893-1976)

POLITICS : 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. (H.L. Mencken, German-American journalist and social critic, 1880-1956)

POLITICS : Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. (Bernard M. Baruch, U.S. financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant, 1870-1965)

POLITICS : It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. (Anne Bronte, English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the BrontÃ« literary family, 1820-1849)

POLITICS : If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

POLITICS : He serves his party best who serves the country best. (Rutherford B. Hayes, U.S. politician and 19thPresident of the U.S., 1877-1881)

POLITICS : Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

POLITICS : Those who put out the people's eyes, reproach them for their blindness. (John Milton, English poet, 1608-1674)

POLITICS : Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising. (Cyril Connolly, English literary critic and writer, 1903-1974)

POLITICS : Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. (Adlai Stevenson, U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900=1965)

POLITICS : Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. (George Jean Nathan, U.S. drama critic, author, and editor of literary magazines, 1882-1958)

POLITICS : He serves his party best who serves the country best. (Rutherford B. Hayes, U.S. politician. abolitionist, and governor of the state of Ohio who later served as the 19th president of the United States, 1822-1893)

POLITICS : I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. politician who was elected four times as the 32nd US President, 1882-1945Judgment: I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

POLITICS : History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. (Unknown Source)

POLITICS : Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesnâ€™t mean politics wonâ€™t take an interest in you. (Pericles, Greek statesman and orator, 495-429 BCE)

POLITICS : Small islands not capable of protecting themselves are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. (Thomas Paine, U.S. philosopher and writer, 1737-1809)

POLITICS : We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Unknown Source)

POLITICS : If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world. (Claude Pepper, U.S. senator and representative, 1900-1989)

POLITICS : Those who have the ability to make you believe absurdities have the ability to make you commit atrocities. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)

POLITICS : I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

POLITICS : Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back. (Gore Vidal, U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)

POLITICS : If politics is the art of the possible, compromise is the artistry of democracy. (Unknown Source)

POLITICS : Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. (Vaclav Havel, Czech writer, political dissident, and politician who first served as the last president of Czechoslovakia and then as the first president of the Czech Republic after the Czech-Slovak split, 1936-2011)

POLITICS : If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time nobody notices. (Benito Mussolini, Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party, 1883-1945)

POLITICS (USA) : There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is B1no party of principle. (Alexis de Tocqueville, French diplomat, political scientist, and historian, 1805-1809)

POLITICS - ECONOMICS : Political equality is meaningless in the face of economic inequality. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

POLITICS - ECONOMICS : Political equality is meaningless in the face of economic inequality. (Unknown Source)

POPULARITY : Popular applause veers with the wind. (John Bright, British orator and Radical Liberal statesman, 1811-1889)

POPULATION : We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals, but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves. (Arnold Toynbee, British professor, historian, and leading specialist in international affairs, 1889-1975)

PORNOGRAPHY : Hard-core pornography is hard to define, but I know it when I see it. (Potter Stewart, U.S. Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court , 1915-1975)

POSITIVISM : If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it. (Malcolm Forbes, U.S. entrepreneur most prominently known as the publisher of Forbes magazine, 1919-1990)

POSITIVISM : What we see depends mainly on what we look for. (John Lubbock, English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist, and polymath who coined the terms Paleolithic and Neolithic to denote the Old and New Stone Ages, 1834-1913)

POSITIVISM : Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right. (Henry Ford, U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)

POSITIVISM : It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy. (Unknown source)

POSITIVISM : The body manifests what the mind harbors. (Jerry Augustine, retired U.S. professional baseball player who was a pitcher in the Major Leagues, Born 1952)

POSITIVISM : Optimism is an intellectual choice. (Diana Schneider, German singer and entertainer)

POSITIVISM : Am I like the optimist who, while falling ten stories from a building, says at each story, I'm all right so far? (Gretel Ehrlich, U.S. travel writer, poet and essayist, Born 1946)

POSITIVISM : On the human chessboard, all moves are possible. (Miriam Schiff, U.S. journalist and film director of the 'Vagina Monologues'))

POSITIVISM : In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. (Daniel Reardon, U.S. actor and film director)

POSITIVISM : Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. (Lin Yutang, Chinese writer, translator, linguist, philosopher and inventor, 1895-1976)

POSITIVISM : If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. (Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-American writer in Yiddish who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1902-1991)

POSITIVISM : Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

POSITIVISM : Knock the t off the can't. (George Reeves, U.S. actor, best known for his television role as 'Superman', 1914-1959)

POSIVISM : Keep your face to the sunshine and you won't see the shadows. (Helen Keller, U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

POSSESSIONS : It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

POSSESSIONS : If I am what I have, and if I lose what I have, who then am I? (Erich Fromm, German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher, 1900-1980)

POSSESSIONS : Every increased possession loads us with new weariness. (Unknown Source)

POSSIBILITIES : If a man points at the moon, an idiot will look at the finger. (Sufi proverb)

POSTERITY : A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. (Unknown Source)

POSTERITY : 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. (Jean Paul Richter, German Romantic writer, 1763-1825)

POSTERITY : A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. (Greek proverb)

POSTERITY : People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. (Edmund Burke, Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

POSTERITY : People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. (Edmund Burke, Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher, 1729-1797)

POVERTY : As long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. (Unknown Source)

POVERTY : No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide. (Eric Sevareid, U.S. author and CBS news journalist, 1912-1992)

POVERTY : A hungry man is not a free man. (Adlai E. Stevenson, U.S. politician and diplomat, 1900-1965)

POVERTY : Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings. (Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa, 1918-2013)

POVERTY : A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

POVERTY : As long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. (Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator, Attorney General, and Civil Rights Activist, 1925-1968)

POVERTY : You're better off being rich and guilty in the U.S. than poor and innocent. (Bryan Stevenson, professor of law, author, and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative non-profit organization, Born 1959)

POVERTY : Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up. (Saki, [AKA Hector Hugh Monro], British writer considered as a master of the short story, 1870-1916)

POVERTY : Poverty - one thing money can't buy. (Lynwood L. Giacomini, U.S. publishing representative and a bibliophile, 1913-1991)

POVERTY : The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food. (Russian proverb)

POVERTY : Poverty is the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases. (Eugene O'Neill, U.S. playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature, 1888-1953)

POVERTY : That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man. (Henry George, U.S. socialist economist and journalist, 1839-1897)

POVERTY : I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient. (William Shakespeare, English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

POVERTY : The seeds of poverty are with institutions, not individuals. (Unknown Source)

POVERY : No man was ever more than about nine meals away from crime or suicide. (Eric Sevareid, U.S. author and CBS news journalist, 1912-1992)

POWER : I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others. (Thomas Jefferson, one of the U.S. Founders who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

POWER : Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions. (Tacitus, Roman senator and historian, known for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics, 56-117 A.D. )

POWER : He who has great power should use it lightly. (Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.â€“A.D. 65)

POWER : When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. (Jimi Hendrix, U.S. rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter, 1942-1970)

POWER : The big thieves hang the little ones. (Czech proverb)

POWER : Power without love cannot be just; similarly, love that doesn't take power seriously can never achieve justice. (Paul Tillich, German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and theologian, 1886-1965)

POWER : No longer can inequality in economic resources balance equality in political resources. (Marshall Ganz, U.S. national social organizer, Born 1943)

POWER : We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. (Stewart I. Udall, U.S. politician and later, a federal government official. 1920-2010)

POWER : We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. (Unknown Source)

POWER : The measure of power is not based on how many you beat down but how many you lift up. (Unknown source)

POWER : 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? (Unknown Source)

POWER : Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has and it never will. (Unknown Source)

POWER : Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. (Eric Hoffer, U.S. moral and social philosopher and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

POWER : Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful. (Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and philosopher who authored Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1921-1997)

POWER : Power without [the people's] confidence is nothing. (Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia from 1762 until 1796, the country's longest-ruling female leader, under whose reign Russia became revitalized and recognized as one of the great powers of Europe., 1729-1796)

POWER : The power to define the situation is the ultimate power. (Jerry Rubin, U.S. activist and author, 1938-1994)

POWER : Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. (George Orwell, English novelist and essayist, journalist, and critic, whose work focused on democratic socialism. 1903-1950)

POWER : Power tends to connect; absolute power connects absolutely. (John Dalberg-Acton, English Catholic historian, politician, and writer, 1834-1902)

POWER : A Liberal is a power worshipper without power. (George Orwell, English novelist and essayist, journalist, and critic, whose work focused on democratic socialism. 1903-1950)

POWER : The main task of a free society is to civilize the struggle for power. (R.H.S. Crossman, British Labor Party politician, 1907-1974)

POWER : Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. (Eric Hoffer, U.S. moral and social philosopher, author, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

POWER : Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. (William Pitt, British statesman of the Whig group who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1708-1778)

POWER : Patience and gentleness is power. (Leigh Hunt, English critic, essayist, and poet, 1784-1859)

POWER : Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. (William Pitt, British statesman of the Whig group who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1708-1778)

PRAISE : The sweetest of all sounds is praise. (Xenophon, Greek philosopher, historian, soldier, mercenary, and student of Socrates, 430-354 B.C.E.)

PRAISE : A rich man's joke is always funny. (Thomas Edward Brown, British scholar, schoolmaster, poet, and theologian, 1830-1897)

PRAISE : Praise to the undeserving is severe satire. (Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founders of the U.S., a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

PRAISE : The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a 'but'. (Henry Ward Beecher, U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

PRAISE : I can live for two months on a good compliment. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

PRAISE : As the Greek said, Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise. (Wendell Phillips, U.S. abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney, 1811-1884)

PRAISE : Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

PRAISE : Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. (Phillip Dormer Starhope [4th Earl of Chesterfield], British statesman, man of letters and wit, 1694-1773)

PRAYER : What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four. (Unknown source)

PRAYER : Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. (Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher, 1813-1855)

PRAYER : There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes. (Erica Jong, U.S. novelist, satirist, and poet, who figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism, Born 1942)

PRAYER : Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore. (Russian proverb)

PRAYER : Call on God, but row away from the rocks. (Indian proverb)

PRAYER : Trust in Allah, but tie your camel first. (Arab proverb)

PRAYER : Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone . . . who alone can deliver us from solitude. (Unknown source)

PRAYER : Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it. (Francois de Fenelon, French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet, and writer, 1651-1715)

PRAYER : Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape. (Austin O'Malley, U.S. ophthalmologist, professor of English literature, and author of aphorisms, 1858-1932)

PRAYER : If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees. (Fred Beck, U.S. major league baseball player, 1886-1962)

PRAYER : The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience. (O. Hallesby, Norwegian Lutheran theologian, author, and educator, 1879-1961)

PRAYER : All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week. (Duffy Daugherty, U.S. football player and coach who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach, 1915-1987)

PRAYER : Do not pray by heart, but with the heart. (Unknown source)

PRAYER : Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. (Adam Clarke, British Methodist theologian and biblical scholar,1762-1832)

PRAYER : Most people do not pray; they only beg. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

PRAYER : Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

PRAYER : O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. (William Penn, English colonial proprietor, Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania, 1644-1718)

PRAYER : Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand. (Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian Catholic deacon and preacher and one of the most venerated religious figures in history, 1181-1226)

PRAYER : Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. (Ruth Graham, U.S. Christian author, most well known as the wife of evangelist Billy Graham, 1943-2007)

PRAYER : It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there. (C.S. Lewis, British writer and lay theologian. 1898-1963)

PRAYER : Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods, a man should himself lend a hand. (Hippocrates II, Greek physician who is often referred to as the Father of Medicine,â€ c. 460 â€“ c. 370 B.C.E.)

PRAYER : God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them. (German proverb)

PRAYER : Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act. (Sophocles, one of three [ancient Greek playwrights [Aeschylus and Euripides] who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, 496-406 B.C.E.)

PRAYER : Visualize, prayerize, actionize, and your wishes will come true. (Charles L. Allen, U.S. ordained United Methodist minister whose First United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas became the largest Methodist congregation in the world at 12,000 members. 1913-2005)

PRAYER : Nothing is discussed more and practiced less than prayer. (Unknown source)

PRAYER : A prayer, in its simplest definition, is merely a wish turned heavenward. (Unknown source)

PRAYER : When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep. (Unknown source)

PRAYER : Prayer is the key, but faith unlocks the door. (The Bible)

PRAYER : Prayer is the world's greatest wireless connection. (Unknown source)

PRAYERS : 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. (Steve Allen, U.S. television host, musician, actor, comedian, and writer, 1921-2000)

PRAYERS : The doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind. (Herbert Muller, U.S., educator, historian, and author, 1905-1980)

PRAYERS : 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. (Unknown Source)

PREJUDICE : The mind will ever be unstable that has only prejudices to rest on. (Unknown Source)

PREJUDICE : Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. (John Wesley, English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism, 1703-1791)

PREJUDICE : A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. (William James, U.S. philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician, 1842-1910)

PREJUDICE : The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. (Ogden Nash, U.S. poet well known for his light verse, 1902-1971)

PREJUDICE : A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. (William James, U.S. philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician, 1842-1910)

PREJUDICE : Everyone is a prisoner of his/her own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices---justrecognize them. (Edward R. Murrow, U.S. broadcast journalist, 1908-1965)

PREJUDICE : Some folks think they are thinking when they are only rearranging their prejudices. (Unknown source)

PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY : There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. (Charles Curtis, U.S. attorney and politician who served as the 31st U.S. vice-president, 1860-1936)

PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY : Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. (Edward R. Murrow, U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965)

PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY : We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY : Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized. (A. Eustace Haydon, Canadian Baptist minister, historian of religion, and recipient of the 'Humanist of the Year' award by the American Humanist Association, 1880-1975)

PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY : We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them. (Charles Caleb Colton, English cleric, writer and collector, 1780-1832)

PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY : Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of color, the most corrosive is the wound within, the internalized racism that leads some victims . . . to embrace the values of their oppressors. (H. Jack Geiger, U.S. medical doctor, and founding member and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Born 1926)

PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY : Prejudice is the child of ignorance. (William Hazlitt, English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY : I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. (Dick Gregory, U.S. comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, and writer who mocked bigotry and racism, 1932-2017)

PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY : A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY : He hears but half who hears one party only. (Aeschylus, ancient Greek tragedian who is often described as the 'Father of Tragedy, 525-456 B.C.E. )

PREJUDICE- BIGOTRY : He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. (Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright and librettist, 1707-1793)

PREJUDICE-BIGOTRY : The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. jurist who served both as an Associate Justice and as the Acting Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1841-1935)

PREPARATION : Give me 6 hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first 4 sharpening the axe. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

PREPARATION : The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. (John F. Kennedy, U.S. politician and 35th U.S. president, 1917-1963)

PREPAREDNESS : In fair weather prepare for foul. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

PRESS : The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. (George Mason, U.S. planter, politician and delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1725-1792)

PRESS : Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy. (Wendell L. Wilkie, U.S. lawyer, politician, and corporate executive, 1892-1944)

PRIDE : Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself. (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1860)

PRIDE : Pride is the mask of one's own faults. (Jewish proverb, )

PRIDE : When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured. (English proverb, )

PRIDE : Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

PRINCIPLES : In matters of conscience the law of majority has no place. (Unknown Source)

PRINCIPLES : Principles should be guideposts, not roadblocks. (Amy Gutmann, U.S. Professor of Political Science and President of the University of Pennsylvania, Born 1949)

PRINCIPLES : Principles become modified in practice by facts. (James Fennimore Cooper, U.S. writer whose books focused on the history of U.S. frontier and American Indian life, 1789-1851)

PRINCIPLES : Important principles may and must be flexible. (Abraham Lincoln, U.S. politician who served as the 16th U.S. President, 1809-1865)

PRINCIPLES : Principles should be guideposts, not roadblocks. (Unknown Source)

PRISONS : The privatization of the prisons is not private, not free, and hardly enterprise. It is the further subsidization of corporations at the expense of taxpayers. (William DuBay, U.S. Catholic priest and social activist, Born 1934)

PRISONS : Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : In reflecting on your past, don't obscure the future. (Stacy Keach, U.S. actor and narrator, Born 1941)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. (Simonides, Greek lyric poet, c. 556-468 BCE)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't. (Henry Ward Beecher, U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : When men realized that women bleed every month and donï¿½t die, they became fearful of womenï¿½s power. (Ada Rosenbaum, U.S. businesswoman, Born 1939)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : Why fit in when you were born to stand out? (Theodor Seuss Geisel [pen name of Dr. Seuss], U.S. political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books, 1904-1991)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : When men realized that women bleed every month and don't die, they became fearful of women's power. (Unknown source)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : Most men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed off wings where he never ventures. (FranÃ§ois Mauriac, writer, Nobel laureate, 1885-1970)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : 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. (John Lennon, English musician, singer, and songwriter who was a founding member of the rock band, the Beatles, 1940-1980)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : 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. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence, but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. (Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. 1929-1968)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't, you will see obstacles. (Wayne Dyer, U.S. author and motivational speaker, 1940-2015)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : He who opens a school door, closes a prison door. (Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and dramatist, 1802-1885)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : When you open a school, you close a jail. (Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and dramatist, 1802-1885)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : The privatization of the prisons is not private, not free, and hardly enterprise. It is the further subsidization of corporations at the expense of taxpayers. (William DuBay, U.S. Catholic priest and social activist, Born 1934)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher, 1894-1963)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. (Unknown source)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : What one needs in life are the pessimism of intelligence and the optimism of will. (Andre DeStark, Belgian Ambassador to NATO)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. (Unknown Source)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat. (Unknown source)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. (Thomas Alva Edison, U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : The best practice is inspired by theory. The best theory is inspired by practice (Donald Knuth, U.S. computer scientist, mathematician, and professor, Born 1938)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. (Brendan Francis Behan, Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : The Corporate impulse for human uniformity instills shame at difference and, thus, the contemporary zeal for privacy. (John Perry Barlow, U.S. poet, cattle rancher, and political activist, Born 1947)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will do. (Unknown source)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : A pessimist is a well-informed optimist. (Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet, 1920-2009)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. (Edmund Burke, Irish statesman who served in the British Parliament, author, orator, and political philosopher, 1729-1797)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : The nail that sticks out is hammered down. (Japanese proverb)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : 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. (Francois de la La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : Do not follow where the path leads. Rather, go where there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. (Hal Borland, U.S. author and journalist, 1900-1978)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. (Unknown Source)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. (Albert Schweitzer, French-German philosopher, physician, musician, and Nobel Laureate, 1875-1965)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : 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. (Steve Allen, U.S. television host, musician, actor, comedian, and writer, 1921-2000)

PRIVACY - UNIFORMITY : They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. (Francis Bacon, British essayist, philosopher, scientist, and statesman 1561-1626)

PRIVILEGE : Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege even better. (Anna Chennault, Chinese-born U.S. war correspondent, 1925-2018)

PROBLEM SOLVING : A problem well stated is a problem half solved. (Unknown Source)

PROBLEMS : A problem well stated is a problem half solved. (Charles F. Kettering, U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, and the holder of 186 patents, 1876-1958)

PROBLEMS : It isn't that they can't see the solution, it's that they can't see the problem. (G.K. Chesterton, English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic, known for his popular sayings, 1874-1936)

PROBLEMS : Every path has its puddle. (English proverb)

PROBLEMS : The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. (Bernard M. Baruch, U.S. financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant, 1870-1965)

PROBLEMS : Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution. (Stanley Arnold, U.S. business leader and consultant)

PROBLEMS : The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong. (Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

PROBLEMS : Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. (Theodore N. Vail, U.S. leader of the American Telephone & Telegraph who viewed telephone service as a public utility and moved to consolidate telephone networks under the Bell system, 1845-1920)

PROBLEMS : Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. (Henry J. Kaiser, U.S. industrialist who established the Kaiser Shipyards after which he formed Kaiser Aluminum, Kaiser Steel, and Kaiser Permanente health care.1882-1967)

PROBLEMS : There is no movement without our own resistance. (Laura Schlessinger, U.S. talk radio host, author, and an inductee to the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, Born 1947)

PROBLEMS : The best way out of a problem is through it. (Unknown source)

PROBLEMS : Difficulties exist to be surmounted. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

PROBLEMS : Problems are opportunities in overalls. (Unknown source)

PROBLEMS : Picture yourself placing your problem inside a pale, yellow balloon, letting it go, watching it drift until it is a tiny pastel dot in the sky. (Barbara Markoff, U.S. art consultant, 1931-2019)

PROBLEMS : Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. (Unknown source)

PROBLEMS : Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. (Charles F. Kettering, U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, the holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering Foundation for research, 1876-1958)

PROBLEMS : Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them. (Laurence J. Peter, Canadian educator best known for the formulation of the Peter principle - managers rise to the level of their incompetence, 1919-1990)

PROCRASTINATION : Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the year. (Spanish proverb)

PROCRASTINATION : Why always, not yet? Do flowers in spring say, not yet? (Norman Douglas, British writer, 1868-1952)

PROFESSIONS : 'Vice-President' is the title given to a corporate manager instead of a raise. (James Humes, U.S. author and former presidential speechwriter, know for his extensive knowledge of the political landscape, Born 1934)

PROFESSIONS : It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise. (Robert Orben, U.S. comedy writer, magician, and speech-writer for politicians, Born 1927)

PROFESSIONS : Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you're too old to get the job. (Unknown source)

PROFESSIONS : Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits. (Casey Stengel, U.S. Major League Baseball player and manager of the New York Yankees who was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, 1890-1975)

PROFESSIONS : People who work sitting down generally get paid more than people who work standing up. (Ogden Nash, U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971)

PROFESSIONS : The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business. (John Steinbeck, U.S. author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1968)

PROFESSIONS : Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs. (Bert Sugar, U.S. boxing writer and sports historian, 1936-2012)

PROFESSIONS : By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. (Robert Frost, U.S. poet who received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

PROFESSIONS : I don't like the fact that doctors are referred to as practicing. (Janet Schwartz, U.S. family physician)

PROFESSIONS : A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. (Carrie Snow, U.S. stand-up comedian and television comic writer)

PROFILING : When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. (Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian spiritual writer and speaker, 1895-1986)

PROFIT : Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. (Arthur Miller, US. playwright and essayist, 1915-2005Progress: Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel prize recipient in literature, 1872-1970Behavior: Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

PROFIT : Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. (Arthur Miller, U.S. playwright and essayist, 1915-2005)

PROGRESS : Progress lies not in what is enhancing, but in advancing of what will be. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

PROGRESS : 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. (Unknown Source)

PROGRESS : 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. (Unknown Source)

PROGRESS : The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. (Alfred North Whitehead, British mathematician and philosopher, 1861-1947)

PROGRESS : 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. (Adrienne Rich, U.S. poet and essayist, know for bringing the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse, 1929-2012)

PROGRESS : Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural - while it was recent. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

PROGRESS : The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village. (Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher whose study of media history is one of the cornerstones of media theory, 1911-1980)

PROGRESS : And from the discontent of man the world's best progress springs. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox, U.S. author and poet, 1850-1919)

PROGRESS : Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. (James Bryant Conant, U.S. chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, 1893-1978)

PROGRESS : The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. (Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher, 1861-1947)

PROGRESS : Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake. (Wendell Phillips, U.S. abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney, 1811-1884)

PROGRESS : Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door. (Simeon Strunsky, Russian-born Jewish American essayist and editorialist, 1879-1948)

PROGRESS : The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

PROGRESS : Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic, and more time to drive to the office. (Unknown source)

PROGRESS : What we call progress is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance. (Havelock Ellis, English physician, writer, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality, 1859-1939)

PROGRESS : Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours. (Bill Vaughan, U.S. columnist and author, 1915-1977)

PROGRESS : Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork? (Stanislaw Lee, Polish poet and aphorist, 1909-1966)

PROGRESS : Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. (Thomas Huxley, English biologist who was an advocate of Charles Darwin\'s theory of evolution)

PROGRESS : Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. (Margaret Mead, U.S. cultural anthropologist, author, and speaker on the mass media, 1901-1978)

PROGRESS : I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

PROGRESS : Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural - while it was recent. (Unknown Source)

PROGRESS : Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

PROGRESSIVISM : Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton, U.S. suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement, 1815-1902)

PROMISE : Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise. (George Washington, U.S. statesman, military leader, and one of the Founders of the U.S. who also served as the first President of the United States, 1732-1799)

PROOF-CERTAINTY : To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. (Stanislauw LeszczyÅ„ski, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Duke of Lorraine, and count of the Holy Roman Empire, 1677-1776)

PROOF-CERTAINTY : Modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise. (William Shakespeare, English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

PROOF-CERTAINTY : The burden of proof lies on the plaintiff. (Legal maxim)

PROPAGANDA : Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)

PROPERTY : The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature. (William James, U.S. philosopher and psychologist who has been labeled the Father of American psychology,â€ 1842-1910)

PROPERTY : Mine is better than ours. (Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founders of the U.S., a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

PROPHECY : I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet. (Cicero, Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, 106-43 B.C.E.)

PROPHETS : Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. (Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and semiotician, 1932-2016)

PROSPERITY : No man has a prosperity so high or firm, but that two or three words can dishearten it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

PROSPERITY : Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. (Unknown source)

PROSTITUTES : The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture. (Camille Paglia, U.S. academic and social critic, Born 1947)

PROTEST - DISSENT : Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. (Farrah Gray, U.S. businessman and author, Born 1984)

PROTEST - DISSENT : Fear-prophets - and those prepared to die for the truth - as a rule, make many others die with them, often before them, and at times instead of them. (Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and semiotician, 1932-2016)

PROTEST - DISSENT : What has always made a hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his heaven. (Friedrich Holderlin, German lyric poet, 1770-1843)

PROTEST - DISSENT : Dissent is not only patriotic, it is the essence of what being an American is all about. (Unknown source)

PROTEST - DISSENT : Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

PROTEST - DISSENT : It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

PROTEST - DISSENT : No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. (Barack Obama, U.S. politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, the first African American to assume the presidency, Born 1961)

PROTEST - DISSENT : The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope. (Winston Churchill, British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

PROTEST - DISSENT : Better is the enemy of the good. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)

PROTEST - DISSENT : An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

PROTEST - DISSENT : Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. (William Beveridge, British economist and social reformer, 1879-1963)

PROTEST - DISSENT : It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

PROTEST - DISSENT : There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. (Winston Churchill, British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

PROTEST - DISSENT : If all pulled in the same direction, the world would topple over. (Yiddish Proverb)

PROTEST - DISSENT : I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. (Erica Jong, U.S. novelist and poet, known particularly for her novel, Fear of Flying, that led to the second-wave feminism, Born 1942)

PROTEST - DISSENT : Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength. (Ralph W. Sockman, U.S. pastor and radio broadcaster, 1889-1970)

PROTEST - DISSENT : Head-talk is for dealing. Heart-talk is for healing. (Rhea Zakich, U.S. communications consultant and creator of the 'Ungame,' Born 1935)

PROTESTS : A king can stand people fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking. (Will Rogers, U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)

PROTESTS : It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. (Emiliano Zapata, leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, 1879-1919)

PROTESTS : There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. (Elie Wiesel, Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor, 1928-2016)

PROTESTS : First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you . . . and you win. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

PROTESTS : I would rather die standing in resistance than begging on my knees! (Emiliano Zapata, leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, 1879-1919)

PROTESTS : First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you . . . and you win. (Unknown Source)

PROTESTS : There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. (Unknown Source)

PROTESTS : Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. (Barbara Ehrenreich, U.S. journalist, activist, and author, Born 1941)

PROTESTS : Barricades of ideas are worth more than barricades of stones. (Jose Marti, Cuban revolutionary, journalist, and poet, 1853-1895)

PROTESTS : What matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but 'who is sitting in' -and 'who is marching' outside the White House, pushing for change. (Howard Zinn, U.S. political science professor, author, and social activist, 1922-2010)

PROVERBS : The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. (William Penn, English nobleman, writer, early Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania, 1644-1718)

PROVIDENCE : There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will. (William Shakespeare, English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

PRUDENCE : People who live in glass houses should not throw stones. (English proverb)

PRUDENCE : Dine on little, and sup on less. (Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer whose novel, Don Quixote, has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the Bible, the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

PSYCHIATRY : Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. (Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

PSYCHOTHERAPY : Half a psychiatrist's patients see him because they are married - the other half because they're not. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

PUBLIC POLICY : Political action is best when it accomplishes the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. (Francis Hutcheson, philosopher, 1694-1746)

PUBLIC POLICY : Political action is best when it accomplishes the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers. (Unknown Source)

PUBLISHING : The profession of book writing makes horseracing seem like a solid, stable business. (John Steinbeck, U.S. writer and recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1902-1968)

PUNCTUALITY : Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. (Horace Mann, U.S. liberal politician and reformer known for his commitment to promoting public education, 1796-1859)

PUNISHMENT : Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

PUNISHMENT : My object is . . . To let the punishment fit the crime. (W.S. Gilbert, English dramatist, librettist, poet, and illustrator, 1836-1911)