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In art, technical proficiency is a great help in letting an artist manifest his vision. Technical *perfection* though, is a false goal and not very helpful, indeed it may lead to the audience feeling overwhelmed instead of uplifted. - Eolake Stobblehouse

Be an opener of doors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

But one must have one indulgence, and I don’t smoke

Another pay-off of my old KISS philosophy, Keep It Simple, Sweetheart. (Also known as Laziness Made Virtue.) Eolake

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. -- Henry David Thoreau

If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance. -- W. S. Gilbert

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. - Abigail Van Buren

Man's naked form... belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all eras. -- Auguste Rodin

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor

They change their clime, not their disposition, who run beyond the sea. - Horace

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. -- Robert Benchley

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. -- Abba Eban

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. -- Gail Godwin

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. -- Mark Twain

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead. -- Publilius Syrus

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. -- Laurence J. Peter

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. -- Rabbinical Saying

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. -- Ken Keyes Jr.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. -- Lyndon B. Johnson

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. -- Theophrastus

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -- Mark Twain

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci

I am never afraid of what I know. -- Anna Sewell

We are always the same age inside. -- Gertrude Stein

It proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself. - Charles Baudelaire

Throughout the world, so-called holy men have maintained that to look at a woman is something totally wrong [...] They have starved their hearts and minds; they are dehydrated human beings; they have banished beauty because beauty is associated with woman. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught. -- Georgia O'Keeffe

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. -- Herbert Agar

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. -- George Burns

When you're through with sex, with ambition, what can an old man create? Art. of course, a piece of art that will go beyond him into the lives of young people, the people who haven't had time to create. The old man meets the young people and lives on. - William Carlson Williams

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. - Theodore Drieser

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity. - Dale Carnegie

Only the closed mind is certain

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. -- Thomas Merton

"Everything everybody just said is either obvious or wrong!" - Grandpa Simpson, The Simpsons

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. - Leon Trotsky

Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth. -- Barbra Streisand

You can't think yourself out of a writing block, you have to write yourself out of a thinking block. -- John Rogers

A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood. -- Mark Ardis

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. -- Mark Twain

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. -- John Russell

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. -- Peter McArthur

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. - Albert Einstein

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. -- Peter Ustinov

Men have become the tools of their tools. -- Henry David Thoreau

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date. -- Dale Carnegie

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. -- Orson Welles

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen. -- Anonymous

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. -- Michael Crichton

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. -- Socrates

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. -- Alexander Pope

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns. -- John Clarke, Economist

Aspiring to a small business that does what it does very well is a noble pursuit. -- Narenda Rocherolle

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. -- Marcel Proust

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. -- Samuel Johnson

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. -- Edith Sitwell

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. -- G. H. Hardy

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. -- Philip K. Dick, Valis

He who promises runs in debt. — The Talmud

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. -- Pablo Picasso

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. -- Lord Byron

When you're through changing, you're through. -- Bruce Barton

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. -- R. Buckminster Fuller

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it. -- Howard Newton

I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. -- Meryl Streep

Speak only when your words will be an improvement on silence.

Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

You can  never have a greater or a less dominion than that over yourself. — Leonardo da Vinci

It can’t be wrong if *we* are doing it; we are the good ones! — Margrat Garlic, Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing. — Terrance

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. -- Anaïs Nin

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men. -- Marcus Valerius Martialis

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. -- Stanislaw J. Lec

There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. - unknown

Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. -- Benjamin Franklin

The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you. -- A. L. Kitselman

A schoolmaster of mine long ago said: You can only learn from the second-raters. The first-raters are out of range; you can't see how they get their effect. - Raymond Chandler

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. -- William Blake

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. -- Simone de Beauvoir

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame. -- Orison Swett Marden

History never looks like history when you are living through it. -- John W. Gardner

True power consists in the mastery of oneself. — Loren Eiseley

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. -- Dr. David M. Burns

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. -- Thomas Fuller

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. -- Herbert Hoover

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Ken Olsen, President, Digital Equipment, 1977

To speak of "mere words" is much like speaking of "mere dynamite." — C. J. Ducasse

Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does. -- Evan Esar

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect. -- Paul Theroux

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. -- Confucius

We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on. - Steve Jobs

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it. — L.M. Montgomery

Crowding a life does not always enrich it. — Rose Kennedy

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. -- Bertrand Russell

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. -- H. L. Mencken

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden. — Plato

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth." -- Quincy Jones, Victory of the Spirit

When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. -- Alan Paton

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. -- Calvin Coolidge

Courage is a strange thing: one can never be sure of it. - Raymond Chandler

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. -- Thomas Mann

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others. — La Rouchfoucauld

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. -- James Lane Allen

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance. — Joseph Addison

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement. -- Lois McMaster Bujold

The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell. — John Foster

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. -- Bob Wells

It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong. -- Warren Buffett

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. -- Bertrand Russell

"Image is powerful. But image is superficial." — Cameron Russell, model

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -- Alvin Toffler

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. -- J. K. Rowling

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. -- Martin Gardner, "The Mathematical Magic Show"

To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. -- Henry Miller

Oh for a book and a shady nook... -- John Wilson

Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly. -- Hugh Macleod

I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. -- Buzz Aldrin

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. -- Edward R. Murrow

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity. -- Andre Gide

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there. -- Clare Booth Luce

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. -- George Orwell

True friends are always together in spirit. -- L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. - Malcolm Cowley

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. -- Ovid

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. -- Dandemis

The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their audience. -- David P. Mikkelson

A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. -- May Sarton

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. -- Jawaharlal Nehru

You don’t have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form. -- Francis Ford Coppola

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. -- Sophia Loren

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.' -- Andre Gide

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. -- Segal's Law

Whatever the circle of hell in which we live, I think we are free to break out of it. And if people do not break out, they stay there of their own free will. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. -- Aristotle

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which. -- Douglas Adams

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.   Robert A. Heinlein

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. -- Vachel Lindsay

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think. -- Edwin Schlossberg

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. -- Dave Barry


By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up. -- Eve Babitz

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. -- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. -- J. Arthur Thomson

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself. -- Paul Hawken

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. -- Benjamin Disraeli

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.  - Lord Chesterfield

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. -- Evan Esar

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. -- Andre Gide

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. -- Anatole France

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. -- Henry David Thoreau

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, last words

Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason. -- John Kord Lagemann

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings. -- George Tooker
"They keep saying I'm some sort of 'sexual innovator'... I never thought of any of my poses as being sexual in any way, I never had anything like that in my mind." -- Bettie Page

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. -- David Friedman

In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon
Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside. -- Albert Schweitzer

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. -- Raoul Vaneigem 

One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong. -- Sean Stewart

Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain. -- Sharon Salzberg

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. -- Thomas Paine

The only way to have a friend is to be one. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.


Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. -- Robert Orben

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. -- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

I am no more humble than my talents require. -- Oscar Levant

Beauty is the light in the heart. - Kahlil Gibran

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. -- Arthur C. Clarke

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.           -- Edith Wharton

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed. -- Etty Hillesum

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.  ~Johann von Goethe

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes


Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.            -- Anne Tyler

I shut my eyes in order to see.   -- Paul Gauguin

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks! - Takayuki Ikkaku

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. - Laurens Van der Post

Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.  ~Grey Livingston

Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile. -- William Raspberry

The wisest men follow their own direction. -- Euripides

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. -- Franklin P. Jones

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.  -- Victor Hugo

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. -- Lord Chesterfield

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.   -- Kent Nerburn

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. -- Lord Brabazon

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated. -- Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket"

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. -- John Russell

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. -- George Burns

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. -- Rabbinical Saying

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world. -- C. S. Lewis

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. -- Bob Newhart

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. -- Mark Twain

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some. -- Jose Marti

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.   -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am the cat, who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. - Kipling

Our first view of others is as reflections of ourselves. An untrusting man is often untrustworthy.

Honest people seldom tell you how honest they are--it simply doesn't occur to them that you would believe, or indeed, be, otherwise.

Question everything. In particular, question your assumptions. Sometimes the obvious is only obvious to you.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. – Thomas Alva Edison

Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.  ~A.A. Latimer

If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.  ~Author Unknown

Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe.  ~Gabriela Mistral

Business is the art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.  ~Max Amsterdam

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.  ~Bob Hope

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.  ~Saint Augustine

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.  ~Sam Ewing

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is the promise of happiness.  ~Stendhal

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.  ~John Ruskin

Inflation is taxation without legislation.  ~Milton Friedman

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

[T]hose who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way.  ~George J.W. Goodman

In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder.  ~ Author Unknown

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.  ~ Rosalind Russell

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people. -- Lillian Eichler Watson

Why do strong arms fatigue themselves with frivolous dumbbells? To dig a vineyard is worthier exercise for men. -- Marcus Valerius Martialis

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. -- G. K. Chesterton

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- R. Buckminster Fuller

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. -- Terry Pratchett

Complete nudity in itself is not erotic. It becomes so only when preceded by or contrasted to a state of dress. In this limited context then, all clothes become somewhat immoral, if we define immorality as inciting sexual interest. Habitual nakedness may indeed be capable of elevating man to a higher mental plane - Lucy Irvine

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. - Aung San Suu Kyi

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income. -- Errol Flynn

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. - Bertrand Russell

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. - Shelley Winters

There's something therapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things about a character. Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same - Kevin Bacon

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. -- Alan Alda

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. -- Albert Camus

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. --- Billy Wilder

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. - George Iles

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. -- Abraham Lincoln

Finding God's most glorious work to be Woman, that all human beauty had been concentrated in her, I resolved to dedicate myself to painting . . . God's most glorious work, more finely than ever had been done. - William Etty

There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? -- Dick Cavett

The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. -- H. L. Mencken

Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings. - Max Ernst

The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended. -- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative

Storms make oaks take deeper root. -- George Herbert

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. -- Laurence J. Peter

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. -- M. Cartmill

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. -- Mary Hirsch

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence. -- Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. -- Jodie Foster

Nihilism is best done by professionals. -- Iggy Pop

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day. -- Lillian Carter, in her 80s

Man's naked form... belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages. -- Auguste Rodin

The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. -- Florence Shinn

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. -- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. -- Soren Kierkegaard

"Absolute cuteness corrupts absolutely" - From Phineas And Ferb

To live is to dance, to dance is to live. - Peanuts, Snoopy

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.  ~Frank Hubbard

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament.  Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help. - Scott Westerfeld

We are always the same age inside. - Gertrude Stein

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth." - Peter McWilliams

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.  ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember.  ~Author Unknown

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. - Henry Miller

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. - Sir Wilfred Grenfell

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself. - Spanish Proverb

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. - Aneurin Bevan

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. - Lord Salisbury

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you. - Lord Chesterfield

"It's better to be looked over than overlooked" - Mae West

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.  ~Guy de Maupassant

"All I want is what everybody wants: preferential treatment!"  - Homer Simpson

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. - Jerome K. Jerome

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. - W. C. Fields

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.  ~Mignon McLaughlin

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. - John J. Plomp

Mustard's no good without roast beef. - Chico Marx

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.  ~Christopher Morley

Men who don't like girls with brains don't like girls.  ~Mignon McLaughlin

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. - Charles Caleb Colton

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. - Galileo Galilei

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them. - Nancy Astor

I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.  ~Author Unknown

The only reason a great many American families don't own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.  ~ Mad Magazine

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. - Sir Francis Bacon

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust. - Henry L. Stimson

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. - Peter McArthur

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. - R. Buckminster Fuller

Curve:  The loveliest distance between two points.  ~ Mae West

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow. - Evan Esar

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it. - Henry Moore

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. - Anna Quindlen

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. - Eddie Cantor

We turn not older with years, but newer every day. - Emily Dickinson

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them. - Franklin P. Adams

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. - Poul Anderson

"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."     - Oscar Wilde

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.   -Khalil Gibran

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.  ~ Laurence J. Peter

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living. - Doug Larson

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. - Alec Bourne

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. - Unknown

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. - Andre Gide

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. - Don Herold

Exercise relieves stress. Nothing relieves exercise. - Takayuki Ikkaku

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. - George Carlin

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. - Bill Nye

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Lane Allen

The problem with theft is that it's an affirmation of lack. -- Stuart Wilde

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust

A single day is enough to make us a little larger. - Paul Klee

Careful. We don't want to learn from this. - Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbes"

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change. - Dan Quayle, 5/22/89

When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears. -- Czech Proverb

"There are ways of treating others in which only consistent courtesy, even in very little things, is offered. This is a very healing habit to acquire."
-- ACIM, urtext

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.             -- George C. Marshall

Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is.             -- Hugh Macleod

The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that it is difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine. - Abraham Lincoln

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. -- Robertson Davies

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. - Mark Twain

It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day. - Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy

For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news. - Gloria Borger

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. - Milton Friedman

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. - Herbert Agar

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. -- Howard Aiken

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. - Abraham Lincoln

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed. - Josh Billings

Nothing I did where the reason for doing it was only the money was ever worth doing it, except as bitter experience. - Neil Gaiman

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. -- Flannery O'Connor

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self. - Whitney Young

I never thought I was doing anything wrong by posing nude, because after all, I don't believe God disapproves of nudity, he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, naked as jaybirds... -- Bettie Page

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. - John Andrew Holmes

"People said it was my smile. That I looked very happy, that I enjoyed my work, and I did." -- Bettie Page

The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble. - Ellen DeGeneres

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. -- Og Mandino

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. - Gilda Radner

I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading. - Zach Braff

  It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. -- Mahatma Gandhi

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death. - Joan D. Vinge, Catspaw

It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. - Jerome K. Jerome

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. - Carl Sandburg

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me. - Dave Barry

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. - Colette

Be kinder than necessary, because everyone you meet is fighting some sort of battle.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. - Thomas Jefferson

When you drink the water, remember the spring. -- Chinese Proverb

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. - Jane Wagner

I think it would be a good idea. -- Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. - H. L. Mencken

Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper. - Kazuo Inamori

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. - Jilly Cooper

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. - Emo Phillips

Throughout the world, so-called holy men have maintained that to look at a woman is something totally wrong: they say you cannot come near to God if you indulge in sex, therefore they push it aside although they are eaten up with it. But by denying sexuality they put out their eyes and cut out their tongues for they deny the whole beauty of the earth. They have starved their hearts and minds; they are dehydrated human beings; they have banished beauty because beauty is associated with woman. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti

One wouldn’t want to meet the ghost of a dog even if one didn’t believe in him. — LM Montgomery, The Golden Road

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it. - Mark Twain

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. - Henry David Thoreau

Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings. - W. Lee Grant

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.  - Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. - Edmund Burke

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. - George Iles

Never answer a critic, unless he's right. -- Bernard M. Baruch

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. - Lord Chesterfield

A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else. - Cardinal de Retz, Memoires

A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else. - Cardinal de Retz, Memoires

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. - Garrison Keillor

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first. - Anna Quindlen

Nothing. It means nothing." -- Charles Chaplin to Albert Einstein when the latter asked him "what does it mean!?" about the throngs of cheering people surrounding them in New York City

"You're real lucky if you manage to have success in a profession that's fun." - Clint Eastwood

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. - Peter Ustinov

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath. - Dave Barry

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. - Russell Baker

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds. -- Tryon Edwards

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. - Margaret Mitchell

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. - Edward Chapin

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. - Horace Mann

Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield. - Price Cobb

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. - Charles M. Schulz

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. - Robert Orben

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't. - W. Somerset Maugham

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. - John Wilmot

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. - Stanislaw J. Lec

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. - Benjamin Disraeli

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer. - From the 1985 movie Bliss

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old" - Franz Kafka

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part. - Aimee Mullins

Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. - Thomas Fuller

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. - John Viscount Morley

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. - Evan Esar

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. - George Bernard Shaw

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head. - Dennis Miller

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble. - Sidney J. Harris

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. - Charles Dickens

Art is life in concentrated form. - Unknown

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. - Gerry Spence

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket. -- Kin Hubbard

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. - Victor Hugo

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. - Oscar Wilde

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. - Miss Piggy

The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. - Margo Kaufman

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. - Alexander Humboldt

You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know. - Joanna Field

Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned. -- Gautama Buddha

I am no more humble than my talents require. - Oscar Levant

The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place. -- George Bernard Shaw

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. - G. K. Chesterton

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. - Harold Taylor

The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. - Aldous Huxley

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. - Arthur C. Clarke

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. - Bertrand Russell

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame. - Rod Steiger

The truth is more important than the facts. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere. - W. Somerset Maugham

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice. - Meister Eckhart

Laughter is the closest distance between two people. - Victor Borge

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? - Henry David Thoreau

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. - George Jean Nathan

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. - Abraham Maslow

Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. - Richard Greenberg

[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. - Thomas Dekker

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. - Aesop

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind. - John Stuart Mill

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. - Margaret Cho

Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance. - Unknown

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. - Bob Newhart

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. - Voltaire

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away. - Phyllis Mcginley

"You know you're old when you notice how young the derelicts are getting." - Jeanne Phillips

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age. - Gloria Pitzer

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. - Andre Maurois

We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here? - Steve Jobs

On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero. - Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996

I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye. - Chuck Sigars

A white birch is a beautiful Pagan maiden who has never lost the Eden secret of being naked and unashamed. - LM Montgomery, Rilla Of Ingleside (LMG's books are warmly recommended)

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. - Patricia Moyes

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. - Marie Curie

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. - Al Franken

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. - Anonymous

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling. - Margaret Lee Runbeck

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. - Vernon Howard

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. - Samuel Johnson

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. - Lydia M. Child

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. - Susan Sontag

I have made plenty of enemies in my lifetime, but none has ever done me as much injury as I do myself. - Kathryn L. Nelson

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills. - Minna Thomas Antrim

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?  —  L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us. - Charles de Gaulle

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. - Lois McMaster Bujold

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be. - Og Mandino

The best way to get approval is not to need it. - Hugh Macleod

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.  - Steve Jobs

My life wasn’t really going anywhere. I was part of the whole goth/death-metal subculture, but it wasn’t making me happy, it was all a bit gloomy. — Richmond, The I.T. Crowd

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. - Dee Hock

Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. - John le Carre

                                       Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. - Tom Stoppard, "Artist Descending a Staircase"

Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is. - Elbert Hubbard

She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation. - Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important. - Madeleine L'Engle

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Rene Descartes

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. - H. L. Mencken

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. - Ovid

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. - Abraham Lincoln

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. - Michael Crichton

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. - Scott Westerfeld

Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned. - Gautama Buddha

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. - Confucius

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. - George Bernard Shaw

Truth is the only safe ground to stand on. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. - Japanese Proverb

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans." (uncertain, possibly Thomas La Mance)

There comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it's all just conditioning. It's the rare man who truly know who he is. - Brian Buckner

Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside. - Albert Schweitzer

Truth has beauty, power and necessity. - Sylvia Ashton-Warner

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. - Sir Winston Churchill

Humankind cannot stand very much reality. - T. S. Eliot

If an artist has no desire at all to please people, he loses his audience. If he has nothing but desire to please people, he loses himself. - Eolake

The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein

Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why. - Eddie Cantor

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. - William Hazlitt

If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. - Lois McMaster Bujold

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? - Dr. Robert Schuller

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. - Socrates

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak. - Jay Leno

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. - Hermann Hesse

Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. - Howard Thurman

You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions. — Idries Shah

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. - Robert Benchley

Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help. - Scott Westerfeld

Underpromise; overdeliver. - Tom Peters

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. - Stephen Jay Gould

I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted. - Og Mandino

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.            -- Sir Winston Churchill

This is my first trip on the mail rowte... I sorter like it. O' course it gets rather tejus. Part of the time I sits and thinks, and the rest I jest sits.  -- Mrs. Skinner, Anne of the Island by LM Montgomery
[Note that the last part of this quote has been wrongly attributed to other people.]

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. - Joseph Campbell

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. - Lord Chesterfield

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. - General Douglas MacArthur

Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings. - Max Ernst

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. - G. K. Chesterton

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures. - Han Suyin

To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. - Bernard M. Baruch

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for. - Earl Warren

You never can see into someone else's marriage. - Sean Stewart

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it. - Mark Twain

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable. - Eric Hoffer

Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds. - Hugh Elliott

We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be. - Oprah Winfrey

You try to give away what you want yourself. - Lois McMaster Bujold

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. - Michel de Montaigne

Drive thy business or it will drive thee. - Benjamin Franklin

Health is not valued till sickness comes. - Dr. Thomas Fuller

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. - Peter Ustinov

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box. - Italian Proverb

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - H. L. Mencken

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. - Leonardo da Vinci

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps. - Benjamin Disraeli

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard

If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return? - Margot Fonteyn

When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does. - Bill Nye

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. - George Bernard Shaw

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. -- Nelson Mandela

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. - Oscar Wilde

I believe our longing for an innate harmony runs deeper than our longing for righteousness. - Evelyn Rodriguez

Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal. - Marya Mannes

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. - Henry David Thoreau

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. - James Baldwin

Nihilism is best done by professionals. - Iggy Pop

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

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are. - Nicholas Chamfort

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. - Samuel Johnson

Great people make others feel great. Small people make others feel small. -- Rick Warren

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one. - Laurence J. Peter

No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. - Sir Frederick G. Banting

Reality continues to ruin my life. - Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

In the fight between you and the world, back the world. - Frank Zappa

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary. - Vidal Sassoon

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow. - Norman Vincent Peale

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it. - Salma Hayek

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. - Rita Mae Brown

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. - Doris Mortman

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. - Amelia Burr

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. - Vic Gold

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. - Judith Martin

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. - Dick Cavett

Abnormal is so common, it's practically normal. - Cory Doctorow

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. - Hazrat Inayat Khan

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. - Quintilian

It's harder to be kind than clever.

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. - Marie de Sevigne

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. - Frances Willard

"I don't know whether my life has been a success or a failure. But not having any anxiety about becoming one instead of the other, and just taking things as they come along, I've had a lot of extra time to enjoy life." - Harpo Marx

"The problem with success is that by the time you're old enough to sleep late, you tend to wake up early."

"The executive who works twelve hours every day will be successful, and be fondly remembered by his wife's second husband."

"If you're skating on thin ice, skate fast."

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. - Russell Green

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. - Edward Abbey

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. - H. G. Wells

Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel. - T. S. Eliot

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. - Salma Hayek

"Cause and effect are one thing. And what is that one thing? You. That’s why what you do and what happens to you are the same thing." - Zen teacher John Daido Loori

We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win. - Edward Gibbon

I have seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces
And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too. - John Masefield

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. - Steve Jobs

Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. - George Burns

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. - W. C. Fields

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt. - Mary Pettibone Poole

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco

If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun. - Benjamin Franklin

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. - Miss Piggy

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution. - Wernher von Braun

Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. - Howard Scott

I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. - Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. - Samuel Johnson

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. - Henry David Thoreau

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves. - Alexander Humboldt

Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition. - Ed Norton

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me. - Anwar el-Sadat

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. - Benjamin Franklin

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means. - Sir Henry Taylor

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. - Fred Allen

"Not to be absolutely certain is, I think one of the essential things of rationality."  Bertrand Russell

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. - Woody Allen

If you really want to do something, you do it. You don't save it for a sound bite. - Liz Friedman

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."

I'm getting more and more around to the idea that even our seemingly most basic ideas are just beliefs and not to be trusted. - Eolake Stobblehouse

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. - Vachel Lindsay

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it? - L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. - Anatole France

"Be gentle with yourself. Bear in mind that depression is anger without enthusiasm."
- Les Barker

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. -- Hubert H. Humphrey

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. -- Thomas Jefferson

"A closed mouth gathers no feet." - Les Barker

"It's just transfusions, don't worry about the words." - Patti Smith

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Charles DuBois

When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here. It's a wonderful life and I love it. - Jim Henson

Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected. - George McDonald

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. - H. L. Mencken

Finding God's most glorious work to be Woman, that all human beauty had been concentrated in her, I resolved to dedicate myself to painting . . . God's most glorious work, more finely than ever had been done. - William Etty

Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.: Gautama Siddharta ("Buddha")

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. - R. Buckminster Fuller

Nothing is easy to the unwilling. - Nikki Giovanni

Rapists, according to the Goldstein study, came from homes that were sexually repressive. Others have found similar things. When the ban on pornography was lifted in Denmark, sex crimes went down 31 percent - Dr. Marilyn A. Fithian

Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings. - Max Ernst

Judge ideas, not people - The Disappearance of the Universe

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. - W. Somerset Maugham

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale

I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours. - Stephanie Klein

People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you. - Ruben Studdard

Do you not see that, among human beauties, it is a very beautiful face and not rich ornaments that stop passers-by? ... Do you not see beautiful young people diminish their excellence with excessive ornamentation? - Leonardo da Vinci

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Give a fish a man, and he'll eat for weeks. - Takayuki Ikkaku

Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin

The highest result of education is tolerance. - Helen Keller

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. - David Lloyd George

Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella

Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.  ~Florenz Ziegfeld

I've developed a new philosophy . . . I only dread one day at a time. - Charlie Brown, Peanuts

To some extend it's a universal situation (feeling confused and out of date as to what technology can actually do now). There are probably 15-year-olds right now who don't suffer from that. ... By the time they're 16, they're slightly behind the curve. - William Gibson

Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.  ~George Horace Lorimer

If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying? - Shantideva

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. - Richard Feynman

I've developed some special talents because I work with men. One is selective hearing. - Amber Martorelli, animator

What can I do? I am a figment of your imagination. - Gusteau, Ratatouille

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. - Thomas Berger

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. - Albert Einstein

Complete nudity in itself is not erotic. It becomes so only when preceded by or contrasted to a state of dress. In this limited context then, all clothes become somewhat immoral, if we define immorality as inciting sexual interest. Habitual nakedness may indeed be capable of elevating man to a higher mental plane - Lucy Irvine

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. - Aung San Suu Kyi

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. - Bertrand Russell

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. - Shelley Winters

There's something therapeutic about nudity. Clothing is one of the external things about a character. Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same - Kevin Bacon

If there is a significant difference between theory and practice, then the theory is wrong or incomplete - Eolake Stobblehouse

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. - George Iles

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe

Living in a vacuum sucks. - Adrienne E. Gusoff

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. - Ray Bradbury

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine. - Martha Beck

May I never miss a sunset or a rainbow because I am looking down. - Sara June Parker

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. - George Burns

My body is naked now & it was born naked. No matter how I dress up or undress' I'm naked. The hours of the early morning find me naked & I find the hours & the morning just as naked as they find me... The best & juiciest of humanly truths are our naked truths. Our fittest honesty is our naked honesty... This is what I call being truthfully democratic. - Woodrow (Woody) Guthrie

Finding God's most glorious work to be Woman, that all human beauty had been concentrated in her, I resolved to dedicate myself to painting . . . God's most glorious work, more finely than ever had been done. - William Etty

Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings. - Max Ernst

Modern Art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. - John Ciardi

The Greeks perfected the nude in order that man might feel like a god, and in a sense this is still its function, for although we no longer suppose that God is like a beautiful man, we still feel close to divinity in those flashes of self-identification when, through our own bodies, we seem to be aware of a universal order. -- Kenneth Clark

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.            -- Evan Esar

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."       -- William S. Burroughs

No human thing is of serious importance.            -- Plato

Man's naked form... belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages. -- Auguste Rodin

"The wise man is astonished by everything."
-- André Gide

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -- Aristotle

There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body. -- Robert Henri

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently. -- Ernest Hemingway

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. -- Piet Mondrian

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. -- Clarence Thomas

I have unbounded admiration for the nude. I worship it like a god. - Auguste Rodin

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. -- Franklin P. Jones

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for. -- Barbara Mikkelson

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for. -- Barbara Mikkelson

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination. -- Victor Hugo

You toy with my heart like it's a toy heart. - Lisa Simpson

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness. -- Kent Nerburn

Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves. -- Herbert W. Boyer

Why am I soft in the middle
the rest of my life is so hard
- Paul Simon, You Can Call Me Al

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes... -- Benjamin Franklin

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. -- Agatha Christie

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. -- W. Somerset Maugham

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. -- Martin Fraquhar Tupper

In the old days a man who saved money was a miser; nowadays he's a wonder.  ~Author Unknown

October:  This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in.  The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.  ~Mark Twain

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this:  most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time.  Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.  ~Douglas Adams

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.  ~Rosalind Russell

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.  ~Mark Twain

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"

The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. -- William Gibson

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.  ~Johann von Goethe

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.  ~George Eliot

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.  ~Confucius

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inflation hasn't ruined everything.  A dime can still be used as a screwdriver.

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.  ~Errol Flynn

There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune:  go there with a large one.  ~Jack Yelton

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. - Mark Twain

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.  ~Frank Hubbard

Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.  ~Grey Livingston

To live is to dance, to dance is to live. - Peanuts, Snoopy

"My parents are always saying to me: 'go to college, Bruce, get a little something for yourself'. What they never understood is that I want Everything." - Bruce Springsteen

This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this. - Peanuts, Charlie Brown

No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from! Peanuts, Linus Van Pelt

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament.  Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.  ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.  ~Karl Lagerfeld

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.  ~Thomas Carlyle

Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember.  ~Author Unknown

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.  ~Kahlil Gibran

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.  ~Rabindrath Tagore

I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be.  ~Benny Hill

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.  ~Oliver Goldsmith