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ABILITIES : They are able because they think they are able. (Virgil, ancient Roman poet, 70 BCE-1778)

ABILITIES : Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best. (Henry Van Dyke, U.S. poet, 1852-1933)

ABILITIES : Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except the best. (Henry van Dyke, U.S. poet and educator, 1852-1933Brothers: A brother is a friend given by nature. (Gabriel Legouve, French writer, 1807-1903Patience: Patience is also a form of action. (Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, 1840-1917)

ABILITIES : Everyone must row with the oars he has. (English proverb)

ABSENCE : Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire. (La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

ABSENCE : The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. (Ouida [pseudonym for Maria Louise Rame] English novelist, 1838-1909)

ABSENCE : Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. (Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet, 1850-1894)

ABUSE : I and the public know. / What all schoolchildren learn. / Those to whom evil is done. / Do evil in return. (W.H. Auden, English-American poet, 1907-1973)

ACADEMIC FREEDOM : The university must be a place so devoted to intellectual inquiry that academic freedom is upheld even in the face of extreme economic, social, and political pressures. B3 Sometimes this means we are perceived as contributing to the turbulence. Yet we know that the country has benefited in recent times from robust, uncomfortable, and sometimes harsh debates in the understanding of complex issues, however painful that understanding may be. (William M. Chace, President and Professor of English Emeritus at Emory University as well as Honorary Professor of English Emeritus at Stanford University, Born 1938)

ACCEPTANCE : A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. (George Edward Herbert, English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb, 1866-1923)

ACCOMPLISHMENTS : You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away. (Arlene Blum, U.S. mountaineer, writer, and environmental health scientist. Born 1945)

ACCOUNTABILITY : It is not just what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. (Unknown Source)

ACCOUNTABILITY : It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. (Moliere, French actor and playwright, 1622-1673)

ACCOUNTABILITY : It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. (Moliere, French playwright and actor, 1622-1673Service: I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. (Rabindranath Tagore, a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)

ACCOUNTABILITY : It is not just what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. (Moliere, French actor and playwright, 1622-1673)

ACHIEVEMENT : If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. (Isaac Newton, British physicist, mathematician, and philosopher, 1642-1727)

ACHIEVEMENT : Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

ACTION : Between saying and doing many a pair of shoes is worn out. (Italian proverb)

ACTION : 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)

ACTION : The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. (Unknown source)

ACTION : Study without action is futile; action without study is fatal. (Unknown source)

ACTION : The question is whether you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived. (Ann Patchett, U.S Prize-winning author, Born, 1963)

ACTION : The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher, c. 551-478 BCE)

ACTION : Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. (Karen Horney, German psychoanalyst, 1885-1952)

ACTION : Better to light a candle than to sit and curse the dark. (John F. Kennedy, U.S. politician and 35th U.S. president, 1917-1963)

ACTION : An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. (Friedrich Engels, German Marxist philosopher, social scientist, journalist, and businessman, 1820-1895)

ACTION : We will either find a way, or make one. (Hannibal, Carthaginian general, considered one of the greatest military commanders in history, 247-183 BCE)

ACTIVISM : I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. (Mother Teresa, Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic religious sister who lived most of her life in India, 1910-1997)

ACTIVISM : Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you get a lot of scum on the top. (Edward Abbey, U.S. naturalist, author, and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, 1927-1989)

ACTIVISM : You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. (Jessica Mitford, English author, journalist, and civil rights activist, 1917-1996)

ACTORS : An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow. (Edwin Booth, U.S. Shakespearean actor, 1883-1893)

ADDICTION : Addiction is suicide in slow motion. (Silverio Rodriguez, Mexican-American shoe-repairman, Born 1966)

ADOLESCENCE : Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

ADOLESCENCE : An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult. (Mason Cooley, U.S. aphorist, Bprn 1927)

ADOLESCENCE : Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents. (Richard Armour, U.S. poet and author of more than 65 books, 1906-1989)

ADOLESCENCE : In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane. (Phyllis Diller, U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012)

ADVENTURE : Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. (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)

ADVERSITY : Pain is the root of knowledge. (Simone Weil, French philosopher and political activist for the working class, 1909=1943)

ADVERSITY : The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. (Sophocles, one of three ancient Greek tragedians - along with Aeschylus and Euripides - whose plays have survived, 496-406 BCE)

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

ADVERSITY : All sorts of spiritual gifts come through deprivations, if they are accepted. (Janice Erskine Stuart, English Roman Catholic nun and educator, 1857-1914)

ADVERSITY : In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. (Albert Camus, French Nobel prize-winning writer and philosopher, 1913-1960)

ADVERSITY : Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. (William A. Ward, U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

ADVERSITY : Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. (Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology for his work in organ transplantation, 1873-1944)

ADVERSITY : Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. (Unknown Source)

ADVERSITY : Adversity comes with instruction in its hand. (Unknown source)

ADVERSITY : When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. (Henry Ford, U.S. founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)

ADVERSITY : Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors, 121-180 AD)

ADVERSITY : Sweet are the uses of adversity. (Unknown Source)

ADVERSITY : You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. (Maya Angelou, U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

ADVERSITY : Adversity introduces a man to himself. (Unknown source)

ADVERSITY : I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God. (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)

ADVERSITY : When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. (Charles A. Beard, U.S. historian, 1874-1948)

ADVERSITY : No gains without pains. (Adlai Stevenson, U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

ADVERSITY : Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain. (Unknown source)

ADVERSITY : The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. (Confucius, Chinese philosopher and teacher, c. 551-478 BCE)

ADVERSITY : The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going. (Molly Haskell, U.S. feminist film critic and author, Born 1939)

ADVERSITY : The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. (Woodrow Wilson, U.S. politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States, 1856-1924)

ADVERSITY : When the going gets tough, the tough get going. (Frank Leahy, U.S. football coach and professional sports executive who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach, 1908-1973)

ADVERSITY : Sweet are the uses of adversity. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

ADVERSITY : Adversity is the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers than. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

ADVERSITY : Adversity is the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers then. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

ADVERTISEMENTS : Advertising is legalized lying. (Unknown Source)

AFRICA : Shown oppression, Africans oppress. A continent so long and brutally violated behaves, no surprise, like a person abused. So . . . Africa rages and inflicts pain—chiefly on itself. This perpetual culling and demeaning of people affects the spirit. Imperialism divided the continent by boundaries that reflect neither natural geography nor ethnicity. Colonialism favored some African peoples over others, inflaming and institutionalizing ethnic rivalries as a matter of policy. The Cold War armed and sustained the cruelest of despots. (Unknown source)

AGING : Aging is about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. (Eugene O'Neill, U.S. playwright and Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1888-1953)

AGING : Old age is when we begin extolling the past at the expense of the present. (Unknown Source)

AGING : It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. (Brigitte Bardot, French film actress and leading spokesperson for animal rights, Born 1934)

AGING : Age is a high price to pay for maturity. (Tom Stoppard, Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter who in 1997 was knighted, Born 1937)

AGING : The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped. (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1860)

AGING : The excesses of our youth are drafts of our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. (Unknown Source)

AGING : Age is simply the number of years the world has had to enjoy you! (Nishan Panwar, Indian actor starring in mostly in Malayalam films, as well as in a few languages like Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, Born, 1985)

AGING : Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. (Andri Maurois, French author, 1885-1967)

AGING : Almost the length of the river if past before you learn how to float, at last â€” before you learn you cannot foreknow the route of the river â€” not halt its flow. (Ida Oja Donohue, U.S. poet, born 1928)

AGING : My doctor said I look like a million dollars - green and wrinkled. (Red Skelton, U.S. comedy entertainer in radio, television, film, and vaudeville, 1913-1997)

AGING : Aging seems to be the only available way to live a longer life. (Unknown source)

AGING : Middle age is when your narrow waist and broad mind begin to change places. (Ben Klitzner, U.S. family historian, 1918-1981)

AGING : Not old, just bikini-impaired! (Unknown source)

AGING : All would live long, but none would be old. (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)

AGING : Too early old, too late smart! (Unknown source)

AGING : People are like bicycles; they can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving. (Unknown source)

AGING : The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball-the further I am rolled, the more I gain. (Susan B. Anthony, U.S. Quaker social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement, 1820-1906)

AGING : Grow whole, not old! (Chris Conley, U.S. football player for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League, Born 1992)

AGING : Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. (Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and dramatist, 1802-1885)

AGING : All would live long, but none would be old. (Proverb)

AGING : Youâ€™ll find that as your grow old, you stop bothering to hide the self youâ€™ve been all along. (Charles Frazier, U.S. novelist who won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction, Born 1950)

AGING : No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living. (Marie Beynon Ray, U.S. author of self-help books, Died 1969)

AGING : Old age begins the day your descendants outnumber your friends. (Ogden Nash, U.S. poet well known for his light verse, 1902-1971)

AGING : The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions. (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)

AGING : In youth we learn; in age we understand. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer, 1830-1916)

AGING : I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep â€¨grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver. (Unknown source)

AGING : You can live to be a hundred, if you give up all the things that make you want to live to a hundred. (Woody Allen, U.S. actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright, Born 1935)

AGING : Growing old may be mandatory, but growing up is optional. (Unknown source)

AGING : 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)

AGING : It takes a long time to become young. (Unknown Source)

AGING : I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. So many have never laughed, and so many have died before their hair could turn silver. (Unknown source)

AGING : Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. (Andre Maurois, French author, 1885-1967)

AGING : Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

AGING : Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. (Watterson Lowe)

AGING : Do not regret growing older; it is a privilege denied to many. (Unknown source)

AGING : You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. (James M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan, 1860-1937)

AGING : The best is yet to be, the last of life for which the first was made. (Robert Browning, English poet and playwright, 1812-1889)

AGING : The excesses of our youth are drafts of our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. (Charles Caleb Colton, English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832 (Unknown Source)

AGING : You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there. (George Burns, U.S. comedian, actor, singer, and writer whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film and television, 1896-1996)

AGING : It takes a long time to become young. (Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

AGING : I stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get. (George Burns, U.S. comedian, actor, singer, and writer whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film and television, 1896-1996)

AGING : Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions. (Laurence J. Peter, Canadian educator best known for the formulation of the Peter principle - managers rise to the level of their incompetence,â€ 1919-1990)

AGING : I love being a great-grandparent, but what I hate is being the mother of a grand-parent. (Janet Anderson, English Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament, Born 1949)

AGNOSTIC - ATHEIST : Do you know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist. (Unknown Source)

AGNOSTIC - ATHEIST : Do you know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist. (Studs Terkel, U.S. author and historian who received the Pulitzer Prize, 1912-2008)

AGREEABLENESS : My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. (Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman of the Tory conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

AGREEMENTS : The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. (Maureen Dowd, U.S. columnist and Pultizer Prize recipient, Born 1952)

AGRICULTURE : When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. (Daniel Webster, U.S. politician who served as Secretary of State, 1782-1852)

ALCHEMY : The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. (William H. Gass, U.S. writer and professor, Born 1924)

ALONENESS : Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poet, 1850-1919)

ALONENESS : I never said I want to be alone. I only said,I want to be left alone. There is all the difference. Greta Garbp. Swedish-American film actress, 1905-1990) ()

AMBASSADORS : Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. (Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and statesman, 1483-1540)

AMBITION : Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

AMBITION : How does one become a butterfly? â€¦ You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. (Trina Paulus, U.S. author and advocate of holistic health and spiritual search, Born 1931)

AMBITION : Although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won. (Lucy MaudMontgomery, Canadian author best known for a series of novels with Anne of Green Gables, 1874-1942)

AMBITION : If you're looking too far down the road, you're not seeing what's right in front of you. (Preet Bharara, Indian-American attorney, Born 1968)

AMBITION : Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite. (Unknown Source)

AMBITION : Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite. (Josh Billings, U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

AMMBASSADORS : An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth. (Henry Wotton, English author, diplomat, and politician, 1568-1639)

ANGER : The greatest remedy for anger is delay. (Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 BCEâ€“AD 65)

ANGER : An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. (Cato-The-Elder, Roman senator and historian who was the first to write history in Latin, 234-149 BCE)

ANGER : How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. (Marcus Aurelius, Roman philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called Five Good Emperors, 121-180 AD)

ANGER : Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. (Marshall Rosenberg, U.S. psychologist, mediator, author, and teacher who developed the Non-violent Communication process for helping to resolve conflict, 1934-2015)

ANGER : If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow. (Chinese proverb)

ANGER : I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. (William Blake, English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827)

ANGER : Anger is the camouflage of sadness. (Unknown source)

ANGER - HATE : I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates and anger so stubbornly is becausethey sense, once hate or anger is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain. (James Baldwin, U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

ANIMAL RIGHTS : If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. (Paul McCartney, British singer-songwriter, composer, bass player in the Beatles rock ban, and poet, activist, Born 1942)

ANIMALS : Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you. (Eloisa James [pen name, Mary Bly], U.S. professor of English literature, Born 1962)

ANIMALS : Until people have loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened. (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)

ANIMALS : The moral progress of a nation can be judged by the way it treats its animals. (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)

ANIMALS : Men are the devils of the earth and the animals are its tormented souls. (Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher, 1788-1860)

ANIMALS : Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened. (Unknown source)

ANIMALS - ECOLOGY : The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men. (Emile Zola, French writer, 1840-1902)

ANIMALS - PETS : Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened. (Unknown source)

ANNOYANCES : Do not let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out. (Annetta Powell, U.S. social media contributor)

ANTAGONISTS : He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper. (Edmund Burke, Irish statesman who served in the British Parliament, author, orator, and political philosopher, 1729-1797)

ANXIETY : Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. (Dale Carnegie, U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1995)

ANXIETY : That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything. (Etty Hillesum, Dutch diary writer who lived in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam and died in Auschwitz Concentration Camp, 1914-1943)

APATHY : Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. (Rollo May, U.S. author, psychologist, and associated with existential philosophy, 1909-1994)

APHORISMS : Aphorisms respect the wisdom of silence by disturbing it, but briefly. (Yahia Lababidi, Egyptian-American poet, aphorist and essayist, Born 1973)

APOLOGIES : A good apology is like anti-biotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound. (Randy Pausch, U.S. professor of computer science and design, 1960-2008)

APOLOGIES : Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. (Robert Brault, U.S. operatic tenor, Born 1963)

APPEARANCE : Handsome is that handsome does. (Henry Fielding, English novelist, dramatist, London magistrate, and considered to be the founder of London's first police force, 1707-1754)

APPEARANCE : A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. (Publilius Syrus, Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 1st Century B.C.E.)

APPEARANCE : He had but one eye, and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. (Charles Dickens, English writer and social critic, 1812-1870)

APPEARANCE : The most delightful advantage of being bald - one can hear snowflakes. (Unknown source)

APPEARANCE : Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty. (Nikolai Gogol, Russian dramatist of Ukrainian origin, 1809-1852)

APPEARANCE : People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes. (Richard J. Needham, Canadian humor columnist, 1912-1996)

APPEARANCE : He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

APPEARANCE : There's one thing about baldness - it's neat. (Don Herold, humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist. 1889-1966)

APPEARANCE : One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth what one becomes. (John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1867-1933)

APPEARANCE : A man cannot dress, without his ideas getting clothed at the same time. (Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman, 1713-1768)

ARCHITECTURE : Form follows function. (Louis Sullivan, U.S. architect, often called the father of skyscrapers, 1856-1924)

ARCHITECTURE : What the people are within, the buildings express without. (Louis Sullivan, U.S. architect, often called the Father of Skyscrapers, 1856-1924)

ARCHITECTURE : Architecture is inhabited sculpture. (Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor, 1876-1957)

ARCHITECTURE : We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. (Winston Churchill, British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

ARCHITECTURE : Architecture is inhabited sculpture. (Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor, 1876-1957)

ARCHITECTURE : No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other. (Frank Lloyd Wright, U.S. architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, 1867-1959)

ARCHITECTURE : I call architecture 'petrified music'. (Goethe, German writer and statesman, 1749-1832)

ARROGANCE : 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, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science, 1941-2002)

ART : A picture is a poem without words. (Horace, Roman lyric poet and satirist, 65 to 8 BCE)

ART : Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

ART : Participation in the arts makes the soul grow. Thatâ€™s how you grow a soul. (Kurt Vonnegut, U.S. writer, 1922-2007)

ART : To engage with a work of art is to engage in empathy, to enter the experience of another, to connect with their humanity. (David L. Ulin, U.S. author and Guggenheim Fellow)

ART : [The arts] speak to what we share, what we hold in common, rather than what pries us apart. (David L. Ulin, U.S. author and Guggenheim Fellow)

ART : Contemporary audiences tend to go towards books and plays which deal with actual events, believing that what happens in life is “real” and what an artist creates is not. In doing so, they fail to recognize how much more valuable than the real thing the unreal thing can be if it tells us the truth about that thing. (Thomas Stoppard, Czech-born British award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Born 1937)

ART : Art is a lie that helps us realize the truth. (Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

ART : Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view. (Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician whose election as President marked the Chilean transition to democracy, 1918-2016)

ART : Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. (Marshall McLuhan, Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)

ART : If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. (Edward Hopper, U.S. realist painter, 1882-1967Ambition: If you're looking too far down the road, you're not seeing what's right in front of you. (Preet Bharara, Indian-American attorney, Born 1968)

ART : The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract. (Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician whose election as President marked the Chilean transition to democracy, 1918-2016)

ART : Contemporary audiences tend to go towards books and plays which deal with actual events, believing that what happens in life is real and what an artist creates is not. In doing so, they fail to recognize how much more valuable than the real thing the unreal thing can be if it tells us the truth about that thing. (Unknown Source)

ART : Art is the signature of civilizations. (Beverly Sills, U.S. operatic soprano singer, 1929-2007)

ART : An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing. (Louise Bourgeois, French-American artist who is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, 1911-2010)

ART : Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

ART : If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. (Edward Hopper, U.S. realist painter, 1882-1967)

ART : It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

ART : Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery. (William Golding, British novelist, playwright, poet, and Nobel laureate, 1911-1993)

ART : Art should be like a holiday: something to give people the opportunity to see things differently and to change their point of view. (Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician whose election as President marked the Chilean transition to democracy, 1918-2016)

ART : Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. (Unknown Source)

ART : Participating in the arts--drawing, dancing, and all that---makes the soul grow. That's why you engage in it. That's how you grow a soul. (Kurt Vonnegut, U.S. writer, 1922-2007)

ART : Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. (Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

ART : Art is a form of perceptual gymnastics. (Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and semiotician, 1932-2016)

ARTHRITIS : If you have arthritis, calmly say, I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road. (Unknown source)

ARTISTS : The artist has a special task and duty; the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity. (Lewis Mumford, U.S. historian, literary critic, sociologist, and philosopher of technology, noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, 1895-1990)

ARTISTS : Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. (Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

ARTISTS : Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. (Unknown Source)

ARTISTS : Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. (Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

ARTISTS : Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. (Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, sculptor, and printmaker who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

ARTISTS : The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them (Goethe, German writer and statesman, 1749-1832)

ASPIRATIONS : Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. (Toni Morrison, U.S. novelist, editor, educator, and Pulitzer Prize recipient, Born 1931)

ASPIRATIONS : Not that I want to be a god or a hero - just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone. (Czeslaw Milosz, Polish writer, Nobel laureate, Born 1911)

ASPIRATIONS : Climb mountains so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. (Nancy McFadden, U.S. lawyer and political liaison between the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the White House, 1958-2018)

ASPIRATIONS : Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. (DagHammarskjold, Swedish diplomat, economist, and author, who served as the second Secretary-General of theUnited Nations, 1905-1961)

ASPIRATIONS : Don’t ever believe that where you are now is the only possibility! (Unknown source)

ASPIRATIONS : Some men see things as they are and say, 'why?' I dream things that never were, and say, 'Why not?' (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

ASSERTION : Go to where the silence is and say something. (Unknown Source)

ASSERTIVENESS : If you can't bite, don't show your teeth. (Yiddish proverb)

ASSIMILATION : The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. (William McKinley, Jr., U.S. 25th president, 1897, until his assassination six months into his second term, 1843-1901)

ASSISTANCE : Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed. (Maria Montessori, Italian physician and educator, 1870-1952Politics: It seems like the less a politician amounts to the more he adores the flag. (Kin Hubbard, U.S. cartoonist and humorist, 1868-1930)

ASSISTANCE : Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. (Emily Kimbrough, U.S. author and broadcaster, 1899-1989)

ASSUMPTIONS : Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. (Isaac Asimov, U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

ASSUMPTIONS : Assumptions are the termites of relationships. (Henry Winkler, U.S. actor, director, comedian, producer, and author, Born 1945)

ASSUMPTIONS : What we assume - what we have never clearly thought out - controls us. (Morton Kelsey, twentieth century U.S. priest, counselor, and religious writer)

ATHEISM : I am an atheist, thank God! (Unknown source)

ATHEISM : By night an atheist half-believes in God. (Edward Young, English poet, critic, and theologian, 1683-1765)

ATTAINMENT : Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment? (Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet, 1850-1894)

ATTENTIVENESS : We live in a world of continuous partial attention. (Thomas L. Friedman, U.S. author, foreign affairs columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner, Born 1953)

ATTENTIVENESS : We live in a world of continuous partial attention. (Unknown Source)

ATTENTIVENESS : We live in a world of continuous partial attention. (Thomas L. Friedman, U.S. author, foreign affairs columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner, Born 1953)

ATTITUDE : Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

AUDIENCES : The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. (Alvin Barkley, U.S. lawyer and politician who served as the 35th Vice President of the United States, 1877-1956)

AUTHENTICITY : Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. (Unknown Source)

AUTHENTICITY : The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. (Anne Morrow Lindbergh, U.S. writer and aviator, 1906-2001)

AUTHENTICITY : Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. (Unknown Source)

AUTHENTICITY : I had rather be hated for what I am than be loved for what I am not. (Andre Gide, French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

AUTHENTICITY : You only find out who is entirely naked when the tide goes out. (Warren Buffet, U.S. business magnate, investor, and philanthropist, Born 1930)

AUTHENTICITY : One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent. (Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

AUTHENTICITY : Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. (Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher, 1821-1881)

AUTHENTICITY : Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. (Heraclitus, Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of Ephesus, then part of the Persian Empire, 535-475 BCE)

AUTHORITARIANISM : Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. (John Morley, British liberal statesman and writer, 1838-1923)

AUTHORITARIANISM : Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. (Theodor W. Adorno, German philosopher, sociologist, and composer, 1903-1969)

AUTHORITY : Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. (Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

AUTHORS : What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers. (Logan Pearsall Smith, American-born British essayist and critic, 1865-1946)