A chicken is an egg's way of making another egg.
Samuel Butler
A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
Louis Nizer
A hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.
C.S. Lewis
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Robert A. Heinlein
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
H. H. Munro
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Charles M. Schwab
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
A man should be greater than some of his parts.
Peter De Vries
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
Gore Vidal
A neighbor came to Nasrudin, asking to borrow his donkey. "It is out on loan," the teacher replied. At that moment, the donkey brayed loudly inside the stable. "But I can hear it bray, over there." "Whom do you believe," asked Nasrudin, "me or a donkey?"
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Albert Einstein
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Herm Albright
A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
Alistair Cooke
A pseudointellectual is a person who knows what "pseudo" means.
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Samuel Goldwyn
A young doctor means a new graveyard.
German proverb
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
George Orwell (1903-1950)
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Cato the Elder
All that is needed for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
Edmond Burke.
Alle Kunst
ist umsunst
Wenn ein Engel auf das
Zuendloch brunzt.
(All skill is in vain when an angel
pees in the touchhole of your musket.)
Old German Proverb
Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.
Henry Spencer
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
An easily understood, workable falsehood is more useful than a complex, incomprehensible truth.
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
Elbert Hubbard
An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus (1913-1960)
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin Franklin
Anything that doesn't kill you will make you stronger.
Nietzsche
Art is "I"; science is "we".
Claude Bernard (1813-1878)
As long as you've lit one candle, you're allowed to curse the darkness.
Walt Leipold
As my grandfather used to say, "If we all liked the same thing, the world would be after your grandma."
Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life begin when you get what you want.
Irving Kristol
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
Blake Clark
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw
Dear God: You do such wonderful things for complete strangers; why not for me?
Yiddish proverb
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
Do not take life too seriously; you will not get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.
Don't be humble. You're not that great.
Golda Meir
Anthony's Law of Force
Don't force it --- get a bigger hammer.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing; it was here first.
Mark Twain
Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They're a different breed of dog.
Josh Billings
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
W.B.Yeats
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
Every time you think about how dumb the average man is, just remember: by definition, half of them are even dumber than that.
Everything in life is six to five against.
Damon Runyon
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine
Faith may move mountains, but it was the whip that built the pyramids.
Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
Blaise Pascal
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
For they know they will sooner gain their end by appealing to men's pockets, in which they have generally something of their own, than to their heads, which contain for the most part little but borrowed or stolen property.
Samuel Butler
Given enough time, what you put off doing today will eventually get done by itself.
G. Gestra
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napolean Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Barry LePatner
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant
Having it all doesn't necessarily mean having it all at once.
Stephanie Luetkehans
He promised me earrings, but he only pierced my ears.
Arabian proverb
Hell is paved with Good Samaritans.
William M. Holden
His absence is good company.
Scottish saying
History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
Bruce Sterling
History doesn't repeat itself --- historians merely repeat each other.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
Honesty is the best policy --- when there is money in it.
Mark Twain
I agree with what you say, but I will kill you if you say it again.
Alan S. Watt
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Stephen Leacock
I am firm. You are obstinate. He is a pig-headed fool.
Katharine Whitehorn
I am not young enough to know everything.
James Matthew Sarrie
I don't think adversity necessarily builds character, but it certainly gives you an opportunity to display it.
Gary Bean
I feel that lying is a way of taking personal responsibility for reality.
Garrison Keillor
I know very few ideas worth dying for, none worth killing for.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Alexandre Dumas the Younger (1824-1895)
If a man says to you, "It isn't the money; it's the principle of the thing," I'll lay you six to one it's the money.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
If it were not for lawyers, we wouldn't need them.
A.K.Griffin
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
Doug Larson
If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel you are looking the wrong way.
Barry Commoner
If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.
O. Osbourne
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw
If you look 'round the table and can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
If you want a track team that can win the high jump, you find one person who can jump seven feet, not seven people who can jump one foot.
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Kurt Lewin
If you wish to live wisely, ignore sayings --- including this one.
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
Marie Osmond
Attila the Hun's Rule
If you're going to rape, pillage, and burn, be sure to do things in the right order.
Immorality is the morality of those who are having more fun than we are.
H.L.Mencken
In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.
Hector Hugo Munro
Law of the Conservation of Filth
In order for something to become clean, something else must
become dirty.
COROLLARY: You can get everything dirty
without getting anything clean.
In the long run, we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
Josh Billings
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
Lord Chesterfield
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham
It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry.
It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are not to our taste.
Tyndall
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
Irish Proverb
It is better to be a mouse in a cat's mouth than a man in a lawyer's hands.
Spanish proverb
It is better to go into a corner slow and come out fast, than to go in fast and come out dead.
Stirling Moss
It is better to say nothing and have people think you are stupid than to open your mouth and remove any doubt.
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake (1757-1827)
It is easier to wear slippers than to carpet the entire world.
It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.
la Rochefoucauld
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Goethe
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another --- it is one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)
It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.
Addison Walker
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
Sydney Smith
It only takes a little bit of greed to get a whole lot of stuff.
Joe Martin
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
It's better to have a horrible ending than to have horrors without end.
It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
Georges Courteline
It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.
It's not the things we don't know that get us into trouble; it's the things we do know that ain't so.
Will Rogers
Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs *at* you.
Leftover nuts never match leftover bolts.
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
Ovid (43 BC-AD 18)
Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
Life is a comedy to those who think and a tragedy to those who feel.
Voltaire
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen
Life is what happens while you are making other plans.
John Lennon
Like all self-made men, he worships his creator.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisified at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
Mark Twain
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
Addison Mizner
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
Abraham Lincoln
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
Jean Rostand
Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
Jones's Principle
Needs are a function of what other people have.
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
Never pet a burning dog.
Steve Gadd
Never worry about your heart until it stops beating.
No good deed goes unpunished.
Clare Boothe Luce
No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.
Garrison Keillor
No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge
No problem is so large that it can't be fit in somewhere.
No question is so difficult as that to which the answer is obvious.
Nobody ever promised me life would be easy...but, then again, nobody ever warned me it might be impossible.
Jake Vest
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Nothing is good or bad but by comparison.
Thomas Fuller
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
Nothing simple is ever easy.
Jim Becker
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
E. Joseph Cossman
Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing.
Herodotus
One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.
Chateaubriand (1768-1848)
One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
Only dead fish swim with the stream.
Only vegetables are happy.
William Faulkner (1897-1962)
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Heinrich Heine
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Joseph F. Newton
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
Perseverence is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
Walter Elliot
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfil it.
George Santayana, "Life of Reason"
Quantity has a quality of its own.
Leninist maxim
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.
Byron J. Langenfield
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Philip K. Dick
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
C. C. Colton
Smoking is a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembles the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
James I
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillor
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Don Marquis
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
Ruth E. Renkel
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian proverb
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
Sam Ewing
Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do. Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do.
Savielly Tartakover
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Max Frisch
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Jacqueline Schiff
The best substitute for brains is silence.
The best way to get praise is to die.
Italian proverb
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
attributed to Sigmund Freud
The further away the disaster or accident occurs the greater the number of dead and injured.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
The gods too are fond of a joke.
Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn.
David Russell
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Ashley Montagu
The more things change, the more they stay insane.
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
American proverb
The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.
William Lloyd George
The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
Japanese proverb
The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action.
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
Doug Larson
The only thing an unbreakable toy is good for is breaking other toys.
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
Henry L. Stimson
The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.
C.S.Lewis
The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven written in green but you learn not to expect this.
Garrison Keillor
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Neitzsche
The things we know best are things we haven't been taught.
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
Heywood Brown
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views...which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.
Dr Who
The way some people find fault, you'd think there was a reward.
The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
Henry David Thoreau
The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.
Frederick Locker-Lampson
There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.
Jules Renard (1864-1910)
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi
There is no gravity. The earth sucks.
There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.
Dante
There is no happiness; there are only moments of happiness.
Spanish proverb
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.
John W. Raper
There is nothing more obnoxious than someone else's good luck.
F. Scott
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few mistakes early in life.
T. H. Huxley
There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.
Maurice Switzer
Time is a great teacher, but it kills all its pupils.
To do two things at once is to do neither.
Publilius Syrus, 100 B.C.
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.
Robert A. Heinlein
Treading on thin ice is safer than trying to walk on water.
True, you can't take it with you, but then that's not the place where it comes in so handy.
Brendan Francis
Two farmers each claimed to own a certain cow. While one pulled on its head and the other pulled on its tail, the cow was milked by a lawyer.
Jewish parable
We all have the strength to endure the misfortune of others.
La Rochefoucauld
We are all lying in the gutter --- but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
John W. Gardner
We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
C.S. Lewis
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do.
Samuel Smiles
We would not take a voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing, without hope of ever telling.
Blaise Pascal
What I hear, I forget;
What I see, I remember;
What I
do, I understand.
Chinese Proverb
What doesn't kill me makes me stranger.
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Samuel Johnson
When dealing with the insane, it is best to pretend to be sane.
Hermann Hesse
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong --- or you are absolutely right.
Albert Guinon
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Goethe
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
Leo Burnett
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Henry J. Kaiser
Where there's a will, there's a won't.
Whoever dies with the most toys, wins.
You are no bigger than the things that annoy you.
Jerry Bundsen
You can't measure time in days the way you can money in dollars because every day is different.
Jorge Luis Borges
You know how people are. They only recognize greatness when some authority confirms it.
Calvin (Bill Watterson)
You know you're getting old when everyone you meet reminds you of someone you used to know.
You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupery