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LABELING : Once you label me you negate me. (Soren Kierkegaard, Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, and poet, 1813-1855)

LABELING : The most primitive man is too complex to be labeled. (Rex Stout, U.S. detective fiction writer, 1886-1975)

LABOR : If the workers of the world want to win, all they have to do is recognize their own solidarity. They have nothing to do but fold their arms and the world will stop. The workers are more powerful with their hands in their pockets than all the property of the capitalists. (Joseph Ettor, U.S. trade union organizer, 1885-1948)

LANDSCAPES : Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings. (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and pioneer in near-death studies and the five stages of grief, 1926-2004)

LANGUAGE : All words are pegs to hang ideas on. (Wendell Phillips, U.S. abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney, 1811-1884)

LANGUAGE - NEOLOGISMS : Stability in language is synonymous with rigor mortis. (Unknown Source)

LANGUAGES : Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God. (Noah Webster, Jr., U.S. lexicographer and English-language spelling reformer, 1758-1843)

LANGUAGES : While some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. (Unknown Source)

LANGUAGES : A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. (H.L. Mencken, U.S. writer, editor, and critic, 1880-1956Evolution: 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)

LANGUAGES : Language is an anonymous, collective, and unconscious art - the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. (Edward Sapir, U.S. anthropologist, linguist, 1884-1939Action: 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)

LANGUAGES : Time changes all things: there is no reason why language should escape this universal law. (Ferdinand de Saussure, linguist, 1857-1913Maturity: You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. (Irish Proverb)

LANGUAGES : I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations. (Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

LANGUAGES : There are more people in China who speak English than there are in the U.S. (Unknown source)

LANGUAGES : Language is the armory of the human mind; at once it contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. (Unknown Source)

LANGUAGES : Language is an anonymous, collective, and unconscious art - the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. (Edward Sapir, U.S. anthropologist, linguist, 1884-1939)

LANGUAGES : Time changes all things: there is no reason why language should escape this universal law. (Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist and semiotician, 1857-1913)

LANGUAGES : Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling, and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. (Bill Bryson, U.S. author, Born 1951)

LANGUAGES : The strength of a language does not lie in rejecting what is foreign but in assimilating it. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832)

LANGUAGES : Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand. (Mark Abley, Canadian journalist, Born 1955)

LANGUAGES : The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable or compressible at the whim of the editor. (Robert Burchfield, New Zealand lexicographer, 1923-2004)

LANGUAGES : A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy. (Max Weinreich, Yiddish linguist and author, 1894-1969)

LANGUAGES : A different language is a different vision of life. (Federico Fellini, Italian film director and writer, 1920-1993)

LANGUAGES : Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust its vitality. It needs constant reinvigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile. (Elizabeth Drew, U.S. political journalist and author, 1887-1965Consumerism: In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. (Ivan Illich, Croatian-Austrian philosopher, priest, and polemical critic of the institutions of Western culture, 1926-2002)

LANGUAGES : If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his brain [head]. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. (Unknown Source)

LANGUAGES : Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. (Unknown Source)

LANGUAGES : Language is a city to which every human being brought a stone for the building of it. (Unknown Source)

LANGUAGES : When two languages bump into each other, they borrow stuff. We call it borrowing, except words don't need to be returned. Sharing is what makes the world go round. (Unknown Source)

LANGUAGES : The strength of a language does not lie in rejecting what is foreign but in assimilating it. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher, 1749-1832Flags: Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. (Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist, Born 1961U.S.A.: Our government has become a clearinghouse for corporations and plutocrats whose dollars grease the wheels for lucrative contracts and easy regulation. (Bill Moyers, U.S. journalist and political commentator who also served as White House Press Secretary, Born 1934)

LANGUAGES : Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. (Richard C. Trench, Anglican archbishop and poet,1807-1886)

LANGUAGES : You live a new life for every new language you speak. (Czech proverb)

LANGUAGES : The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. (George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic, 1903-1950)

LANGUAGES : Language is anonymous, collective, and unconscious, the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. (Edward Sapir, U.S. anthropologist, linguist, 1884-1939)

LANGUAGES : Stability in language is synonymous with rigor mortis. (Ernest Weekley, British lexicographer and etymologist, 1865-1954)

LANGUAGES : No man, or body of men, can dam the stream of language. (James Russell Lowell, U.S. poet, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)

LANGUAGES : While some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. (Carl Sagan, U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996)

LANGUAGES : If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his brain (Unknown source)

LANGUAGES : Language is the armory of the human mind; at once it contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, and philosopher, 1772-1834)

LANGUAGES : Language is a city to which every human being brought a stone for the building of it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

LANGUAGES : The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-British philosopher, 1889-1951)

LANGUAGES : Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow. (Noam Chomsky, U.S. linguist, cognitive scientist, social critic, and political activist. Born 1928)

LANGUAGES : Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. (Unknown Source)

LANGUAGES : Language is anonymous, collective, and unconscious, the result of the creativity of thousands of generations. (Unknown Source)

LANGUAGES : No man, or body of men, can dam the stream of language. (Unknown Source)

LANGUAGES : It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. (Wade Davis, Canadian anthropologist and ethno-botanist, Born 1953)

LANGUAGES : The process of a living language is like the motion of a broad river which flows with a slow, silent, irresistible current. (Unknown Source)

LANGUAGES : The study of word origins points to our common humanity. (Unknown Source)

LANGUAGES : The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. (Unknown Source)

LANGUAGES : Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand. (William Golding, British novelist, playwright, poet, and Nobel laureate, 1911-1993)

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

LAUGHTER : He laughs best who laughs last. (English proverb)

LAUGHTER : He who laughs, lasts. (Unknown source)

LAUGHTER : Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness. (Phyllis Bottome, British novelist and short story writer., 1884-1963)

LAUGHTER : One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself. (Sara Jeannette Duncan, Canadian author and journalist, 1861-1922)

LAUGHTER : Laughter is inner jogging. (Norman Cousins, U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990)

LAUGHTER : Laughter is the liberation of the soul. (Paul Snyder, U.S. educator, Born 1938)

LAWS : Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. (Unknown Source)

LAWS : Where the law ends tyranny begins. (Henry Fielding, English novelist, dramatist, London magistrate, and considered to be the founder of London's first police force, 1707-1754)

LAWS : For every prohibition you create you also create an underground. (Unknown source)

LAWS : Lawâ€™s history is the history of the moral development of the race. (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)

LAWS : No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns. (Finley Peter Dunne, U.S. humorist, social critic, and writer, 1867-1936)

LAWS : When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. (Cicero, Roman philosopher, politician, 106 BCE-43 AD)

LAWS : A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. (Robert Frost, U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer prizes and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for his poetic works, 1874-1963)

LAWS : No man is above the law, and no man is below it. (Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President-as quoted upon seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time, 1858-1919)

LAWS : Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. (Oliver Goldsmith, Anglo-Irish writer and physician, 1730-1774)

LAWS : Where law ends, there tyranny begins. (William Pitt, Sr., British statesman of the Whig group who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1708-1788)

LAWS : We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free. (Cicero, Roman philosopher, politician, 106 BCE-43 AD)

LAWS : Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. (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)

LAWS : Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. (Plato, Greek philosopher and founder of the Academy in Athens, 428-347 BCE)

LAWS : Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. (Charles de Montesquieu, French lawyer and political philosopher, 1689-1755)

LAWS : Useless laws weaken the necessary laws. (Unknown Source)

LAWYERS : To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. (Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American professor and lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1882-1965)

LAZINESS : We are lazier in our minds than in our bodies. (La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

LAZINESS : People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals that do not inspire them. (Anthony Robbins, U.S. entrepreneur and author of self-help books, Born 1960)

LEADERSHIP : You may lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. (English proverb)

LEADERSHIP : The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. (Marie-Henri Beyle - pseudonym Stendhal, French novelist, 1783-1842)

LEADERSHIP : No leader can be too far ahead of his followers. (Eleanor Roosevelt, politician, diplomat, and activist who was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, 1884-1962)

LEADERSHIP : There are two ways of spreading light. To be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. (Unknown Source)

LEADERSHIP : He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind. (German proverb)

LEADERSHIP : Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. (Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

LEADERSHIP : There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear. (Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader during the French Revolution who also served twice as Emperor of the French, 1769-1821)

LEADERSHIP : A leader is a dealer in hope. (Napoleon Bonaparte, French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

LEADERSHIP : To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead. (William Hazlitt, English essayist and literary critic, 1778-1830)

LEADERSHIP : To lead the people, walk behind them. (Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604-531 B.C.E.)

LEADERSHIP : I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles. But today it means getting along with people. (Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India, 1917-1984)

LEADERSHIP : A frightened captain makes a frightened crew. (Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster, playwright, and polymath, 1921-2006)

LEADERSHIP : Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers from which they dare not dismount. (Hindu proverb)

LEADERSHIP : It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. (Daniel Defoe, English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy, known for his authorship of Robinson Crusoe, 1660-1731)

LEADERSHIP : The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. (Walter Lippmann, U.S. journalist who coined the term stereotype, 1889-1974)

LEADERSHIP : When we think we lead we most are led. (Lord Byron, English poet, peer, and politician, 1788-1824)

LEADERSHIP : Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Muriel Strode, U.S. poet and writer, 1875-1930)

LEADERSHIP : The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. (Marie-Henri Beyle - pseudonym Stendhal, French novelist, 1783-1842)

LEADERSHIP : If you allow weak leadership, then you must contend with it. (Unknown source)

LEADERSHIP : You know it's time for change when children act like leaders and leaders act like children. (Unknown source)

LEADERSHIP : In a gentle way, you can shake the world. (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)

LEADERSHIP : Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Unknown Source)

LEADERSHIP : Great leaders use ambiguity but avoid unpredictability. (Martin Dempsey, United States Army general who served as the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Born 1952)

LEADERSHIP : To lead people, walk behind them. (Lao Tzu, ancient Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604-531 B.C.E.)

LEADERSHIP : In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. (Iroquois Nation maxim)

LEADERSHIP : Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Muriel Strode, U.S. poet and writer, 1875-1930)

LEADERSHIP : The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; but the realist adjusts the sails. (William A. Ward, U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

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

LEADERSHIP : A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

LEADERSHIP : One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. (Arnold H. Glasow, U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

LEADERSHIP : Leaders need to know who they are-including how others see them. (Unknown Source)

LEADERSHIP : Remember the three Ds: Do it, Delegate it, or Dump it. (Unknown source)

LEARNING : Men learn while they teach. (Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 BCEâ€“AD 65)

LEARNING : A learned man is an idler who kills time by study. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

LEARNING : One of the best reasons to learn something is to give it away. (Unknown Source)

LEARNING : The most useful piece of learning . . . is to unlearn what is untrue. (Unknown Source)

LEARNING : Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of. (John Wolfenden, British educationalist who supported the decriminalization of homosexuality, 1906-1985)

LEARNING : Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. (Ivan Illich, Croatian-Austrian philosopher, priest, and polemical critic of the institutions of Western culture, 1926-2002)

LEARNING : I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

LEARNING : It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. (Leo Buscaglia, U.S professor and a motivational speaker, 1924-1998)

LEGACIES : What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. (Pericles, Greek statesman and orator, 495-429 BCE)

LEGACIES : The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast you. (Unknown Source)

LEGACIES : If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. (Unknown Source)

LEGACIES : The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. (Cicero, Roman philosopher, politician, 106 BCE-43 AD)

LEGACIES : Our life is made by the death of others. (Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)

LEGACIES : Be ashamed to die until you've scored some victory for humanity. (Horace Mann, U.S. politician and educational reformer, 1796-1859)

LEGACIES : What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. (Unknown Source)

LEGACIES : What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. (Pericles, Greek statesman and orator, 495-429 BCE)

LEGACIES : There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. Similarly, there are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. (Hannah Szenes, Hungarian poet and paratrooper, one of 37 Jewish parachutists to assist in the rescue of Hungarian Jews, 1921-1944)

LEISURE : Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. (Benjamin Disraeli, British politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

LEISURE : Leisure is the mother of philosophy. (Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy, 1588-1679)

LENDING : Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown. (Thomas Fuller, English churchman, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

LIBERTY : Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. (Harry Emerson Fosdick, U.S. prominent liberal minister of the early 20th century, 1878-1969)

LIBERTY : It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people. (Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American professor and lawyer who served as Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1882-1965)

LIBERTY : Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have. (Henry Emerson Fosdick, U.S. liberal pastor, 1878-1969)

LIBERTY : I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say â€˜Noâ€™, where it is dangerous to say â€˜Noâ€™. (Friedrich Nietsche, German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

LIBERTY : The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants. (Bertrand Barere, French politician, freemason, journalist, and one of the most prominent leaders of the French Revolution, 1755-1841)

LIBERTY : Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. (John Philpot Curran, Irish orator, politician, lawyer and judge,1750-1817)

LIBERTY : Give me liberty, or give me death. (Patrick Henry, attorney, planter, orator, and one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1736-1799)

LIBERTY : Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely according to conscience, above all other liberties. (John Milton, English poet, 1608-1674)

LIBERTY : Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. (William Allen White, newspaper editor, politician, author, and leader of the Progressive movement, 1868-1944)

LIBERTY : If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. (George Orwell, English writer, 1903-1950Disabilities: The test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. (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)

LIBERTY : If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. (George Orwell, English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic, 1903-1950)

LIBERTY : We can afford no liberties with liberty itself. (Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court justice and chief U.S. prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials, 1892-1954)

LIBERTY : Liberty without wisdom and virtue is the greatest of all possible evils. (Edmund Burke, Irish statesman who served in the British Parliament, author, orator, and political philosopher, 1729-1797)

LIBRARIES : The most dangerous political force In the U.S. today is a long memory ï¿½ and memory will not die in the Special Collections room of a good library. (J. Quinn Brisben, U.S. teacher and political activist, 1934-2012)

LIBRARIES : A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. (Unknown source)

LIBRARIES : A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone. (Unknown Source)

LIES : Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. (Unknown Source)

LIES : A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Colombian novelist, journalist, Nobel laureate, Born 1927)

LIES : Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. (George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

LIFE : The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

LIFE : There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval. (George Santayana, U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

LIFE : Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. (John Gardner, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1912-2002)

LIFE : We wanderers begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

LIFE : The secret of living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure. (Tibetan proverb)

LIFE : The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. (Japanese scholar and leader of the arts in Japan, 1862-1913)

LIFE : Life is not a jouirney to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to ski in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a Ride!” (Unknown source)

LIFE : Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. (J. Pettit-Senn, Swiss poet, 1792-1870)

LIFE : People are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit and seldom draw to their full extent. (Horace Walpole, English novelist and art historian,1717-1797)

LIFE : Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! (Andre Gide, French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

LIFE : Life is the sum of all your choices. (Albert Camus, French Nobel prize-winning writer and philosopher, 1913-1960)

LIFE : The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it. (Buckminster Fuller, U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983)

LIFE : We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. (E. M. Forster, U.S. novelist, 1879-1970)

LIFE : In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. (Ivan Panin, Russian emigrant to the United States who achieved fame for discovering numeric patterns in the text of the Hebrew and Greek Bible, 1855-1942)

LIFE : Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism. The way you play it is free will. (Jawaharal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India as a secular democratic republic who was a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence, 1889-1964)

LIFE : There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. (George Santayana, U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

LIFE : All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. (Unknown Source)

LIFE : I am who I am because of the bridges I have crossed. (Rhea Zakich, U.S. communications consultant and creator of the 'Ungame,' Born 1935)

LIFE : The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. (H.T. Leslie)

LIFE : Life is to be lived forward but understood backward. (Soren Kierkegaard, Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, and poet, 1813-1855)

LIFE : God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. (Thomas Deloney, English novelist and balladist, 1543-1600)

LIFE : There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. (Willa Cather, U.S. writer and the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, 1873-1947)

LIFE : Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. (Unknown Source)

LIFE : The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. (John Galsworthy, English author, Nobel Prize winner, 1867-1933)

LIFE : Life is to be lived forward, but understood backward. (Soren Kierkegaard, Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, and poet, 1813-1855)

LIFE : The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. (Corrie ten Boom, Dutch watchmaker who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust, but who was arrested and sent to a Nazi concentration camp, 1892-1983)

LIFE : If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. (Louis Brandeis, U.S. lawyer and associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, 1856-1941)

LIFE : Normality is a paved road: Itâ€™s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow. (Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

LIFE : Falling down is part of life; getting back up is living. (Jose N. Harris, U.S. neuropsychologist and family law mediator, Born 1962)

LIFE : There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. (Norman Mailer, U.S. novelist, journalist, and liberal political activist, 1923-2007)

LIFE : The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. (John Milton, English poet, 1608-1674)

LIFE : As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die. (Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and painter, 1898-1936)

LIFE : All philosophy in two words - sustain and abstain. (Epictetus, Greek Stoic philosopher, 55-135 A.D,)

LIFE : Adulthood is overrated; maturity is underrated. (Michael Louis Diamond â€” AKA Mike D â€” U.S. rapper and songwriter, Born 1965)

LIFE : We canâ€™t always choose the music life plays for us, but we can choose how we dance to it. (Unknown source)

LIFE : The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. (Karl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher and science professor, 1902-1994)

LIFE : The unexamined life is not worth living. (Socrates, classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.)

LIFE : Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. (Peace Pilgrim, U.S. non-denominational spiritual teacher and peace activist who for 28 years walked across the United States, speaking with others about peace, 1908-1991)

LIFE : All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. (Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine essayist and poet, 1899-1986)

LIFE : 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)

LIFE : The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

LIFE : A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author and aviator, 1900-1944)

LIFE : We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies? (Edward Young, English poet, critic, and theologian, 1683-1765)

LIFE : The trouble with life is you're halfway through before you realize it's a do-it-yourself project (Ann Landers, U.S. advice columnist, 1918-2002)

LIFE : We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. (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)

LIFE : An unexamined life is not worth living. (Socrates, classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, 470-399 BCE)

LIFE : The secret of living well and longer is eat half, walk double, laugh triple, and love without measure. (Tibetan proverb)

LIFE : We are all part of the Ocean of Consciousness - in its beauty, vibrancy, majesty, power, expansiveness, and serenity. Each of us may be seen as a wave and never alone. (Unknown source)

LIFE : 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)

LIFE : You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. (Joan Baez, U.S. singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose folk music often includes songs of protest, Born 1941)

LIFE : Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying. (Christian Furchtegott Gellert, German poet, 1715-1769)

LIFE PATHS : I dreamed of a thousand paths. I awoke to find mine and to follow it. (Oriental Proverb)

LIFE PATHS : I dreamed of a thousand paths. I awoke to find mine and to follow it. (Unknown Source)

LIFE PATHS : I dreamed of a thousand paths. I awoke to find mine and to follow it. (Oriental Proverb)

LIFESPAN : An individual human existence should be like a river. Small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. (Unknown Source)

LIFESPAN : The first 25 years of your life, you learn; the next 25 years, you accumulate; the next 25 years, you try to get rid of everything. (Unknown Source)

LIFESPAN : An individual human existence should be like a river: small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. (Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

LIFESPAN : The first 25 years of your life, you learn; the next 25 years, you accumulate; the next 25 years, you try to get rid of everything. (Unknown source)

LIFESPAN : Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. (Unknown source)

LIGHT : There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. (James Thurber, U.S. cartoonist, author, humorist, journalist, playwright, 1894-1961)

LIGHT - ILLUMINATION : There are two kinds of light -- the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures. (Unknown Source)

LIGHT—DARK : Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. (Terry Pratchett, English author of fantasy novels, 1948-2015)

LIGHT—DARK : For the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. (Unknown Source)

LINGUISTICS : The extinction of a language is equivalent to the extinction of a species.... If we lose a different way of linguistically organizing thought, we lose a possible way of seeing reality. (Unknown source)

LIST UNIVERSITIES : The three major administration problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. (Clark Kerr, U.S. economist and twelfth president of the University of California, 1911-2003)

LISTENING : He who listens to truth is not less than he who utters truth. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

LISTENING : We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. (Epictetus, Greek Stoic philosopher, 55-135 A.D,)

LISTENING : One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them. (Dean Rusk, U.S. politician and one of the longest serving U.S. Secretaries of State, 1909-1994)

LISTENING : LISTEN and SILENT are spelled with the same letters. Think about it. (Unknown source)

LISTENING : The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

LISTENING : When you listen generously to people they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. (Rachel Naomi Remen, U.S. author and teacher of alternative medicine in the form of integrative medicine, Born 1938)

LITERACY : Reading print is one form of literacy, but there are many types of literacy. Some indigenous groups (such as native Americanscan read the clouds, or Pacific Islanders are said to be able to read the waves and swells of the ocean. (Nikki Giovanni, U.S. poet, writer, activist, and educator, Born 1943)

LITERACY : Being literate is the only way to be free. (Unknown Source)

LITERACY : We learn to read, so we can read to learn. (Ben Johnson, English playwright, 1572-1637)

LITERACY : Reading print is one form of literacy, but there are many types of literacy. Some indigenous groups such as native Americans can read the clouds, or Pacific Islanders are said to be able to read the waves and swells of the ocean. (Nikki Giovanni, U.S. poet, writer, activist, and educator, Born 1943)

LIVING TOGETHER : There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other. (Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist, 1884-1969)

LOGIC : No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical. (Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, promoter of scientific research, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1885-1962)

LONELINESS : Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. (Eugene O'Neill, U.S. playwright and Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1888-1953)

LONELINESS : The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. (Mark Twain, U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

LONELINESS : What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? (George Eliot [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], English novelist, 1819-1880)

LONELINESS : Loneliness is the ultimate poverty. (Abigail Van Buren, U.S. advice columnist and radio show host who began the Dear Abby column in 1956 which became the most widely syndicated newspaper column in the world, 1918-2013)

LONELINESS : Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. (Paul Tournier, Swiss physician and author, 1898-1986)

LONESOMENESS : The you that you are with others is not you. To be lonesome is to be who you most fully are. (Charles Frazier, U.S. novelist who won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction, Born 1950)

LOSS : Anything you lose . . . automatically doubles in value. (U.S. journalist and author, (Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983)

LOVE : Love is trembling happiness. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

LOVE : Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

LOVE : Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931)

LOVE : Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away. (Dorothy Parker, U.S. writer, satirist, social critic, 1893-1967)

LOVE : Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author and aviator, 1900-1944)

LOVE : If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. (Michel de Montaigne, French philosopher and essayist, 1533-1592)

LOVE : Love is a battle in which two free subjects each try to get hold of the other’s freedom while at the same time trying to free themselves from the hold of the other. (John-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, writer, and literary critic, 1905-1980)

LOVE : Love is like war, easy to begin but hard to end. (Unknown source)

LOVE : The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. (Benjamin Disraeli, British politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

LOVE : There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not. (Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, French author of memoirs and aphorisms, 1613-1680Patriotism: 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, 1919-1990Kindness: Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. (Samuel Johnson, English lexicographer, 1709-1784Art: Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery. (William Golding, British novelist, playwright, poet, and Nobel laureate, 1911-1993)

LOVE : There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not. (Francois de la La Rochefoucauld, French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

LOVE : Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. (Unknown Source)

LOVE : 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)

LOVE : When we live to love, we love to live. (Rhea Zakich, U.S. communications consultant and creator of the 'Ungame,' Born 1935)

LOVE : Love isn't love 'til you give it away. (Rhea Zakich, U.S. communications consultant and creator of the 'Ungame,' Born 1935)

LOVE : Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays in the palm; clutch it, and it darts away. (Dorothy Parker, U.S. writer, satirist, social critic, 1893-1967)

LOVE : Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. (Thornton Wilder, U.S. novelist and playwright who won three Pulitzer Prizes, 1897-1975)

LOVE : Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle. (Sam Levenson, U.S. humorist, television host, and journalist, 1911-1980)

LOVE : Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone---but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. (Bette Davis, U.S. actress of film, television, and theater, 1908-1989)

LOVE : Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French author and aviator, 1900-1944)

LOVE : The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. (Thomas Merton, U.S. theologian, social activist and student of comparative religion, 1915-1968)

LOVE : Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. (Unknown Source)

LOVE - HATE : To love and feel loved is to feel the sun from both sides. (David Viscott, U.S. psychiatrist and media personality, 1938-1996)

LUCK : Luck is what happens when it meets preparation. (Unknown Source)

LUCK : Luck affects everything. Let your hook be always cast. In the stream where you least expect it; there will be fish. (Ovid, Roman poet, a contemporary of the older Virgil and Horace, with whom he is often ranked as one of the three canonical poets of Latin literature, 43 BCE-17 AD)

LUCK : Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

LUCK : Luck serves . . . as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny. (Hannah Arendt, German-born, U.S. political theorist who is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, 1906-1975)

LUCK : Luck is a word devoid of sense; nothing can exist without a cause. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)

LUCK : The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck. (B.C. Forbes, Scottish-born American financial journalist and author who founded Forbes magazine, 1880-1954)

LUCK : The champion makes his own luck. (Red Blaik, U.S. football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and U.S. Army officer, 1897-1989)

LUCK : Chance never helps those who do not help themselves. (Sophocles, one of three ancient Greek tragedians - along with Aeschylus and Euripides - whose plays have survived, 496-406 BCE)

LUCK : I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. (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)

LUCK : Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise. (Baltasar Gracian, Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

LUCK : The lucky fellow is the plucky fellow who has been burning midnight oil and taking defeat after defeat with a smile. (James B. Hill, U.S. inventor, 1856-1945)

LUCK : Chance favors those in motion. (Dr. James H. Austin, U.S. neurologist and author of books on the human brain and the practice of meditation, 1928-2017)

LUCK : A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. (James A. Garfield, U.S. politician and 20th president of the United States, serving only six and a half months until his death by assassination 1831-1881 )

LUCK : Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. (Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 BCEâ€“AD 65)

LUCK : You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it. (Henry Moore, English artist who is best known for his monumental bronze sculptures located around the world, 1898-1986)

LUCK : Luck is good planning, carefully executed. (Unknown source)

LUCK : I think that one can have luck if one creates an atmosphere of spontaneity. (Federico Fellini, Italian film director and screenwriter, 1920-1993)

LUCK : Motivation triggers luck. (Mike Wallace, U.S. journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality, 1918-2012)

LUCK : Luck is largely a matter of paying attention. (Susan M. Dodd, U.S. fiction writer, Born 1847)

LUCK : Fortune is with you for an hour, and against you for ten! (Arab proverb)

LUCK : If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth. (Persian proverb)

LUCK : I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the badluck of the early worm. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

LUCK : If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs. (Russian proverb)

LUCK : The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck. (Hector Berlioz, French Romantic composer and symphony conductor, 1803-1869)

LUCK : The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. (UNKNOWN SOURCE)

LYING : Travelers from afar can lie with impunity. (French proverb)

LYING : Who lies for you will lie against you. (Bosnian proverb)

LYING : The cruelest lies are often told in silence. (Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet, 1850-1894)

LYING : A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations. (Saki [AKA Hector Hugh Monro], British writer and social critic, 1870-1916)

LYING : A half-truth is a whole lie. (Jewish proverb)

LYING : A liar should have a good memory. (Quintilian [Marcus Fabius Quintilianus], Roman rhetorician from Hispania, 35-100 AD)

LYING : Thou shalt not bear witness against thy neighbor. (The Bible)