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  • A man without justice is a beast, and a man who would make himself a beast forgets the pain of being a man.
        Timothy Leary   Best?
  • If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing.
        Zimbabwean Proverb   Best?
  • I feel that we read to learn new things, sure, absolutely, but more often than not, what we really get out of the good books we read is self- recognition. We read and discover stuff about life that we already knew, except that we didn't know we knew it until we read it in a particular book. And this self-recognition, this discovering ourselves in the writings of others can be very exciting, can make us feel a little less isolated inside our own thing and a little more connected to the larger world.
        Richard Price   Best?
  • If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
        Louisa May Alcott   Best?
  • Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
        Terry Pratchett   Best?
  • All romantics meet the same fate someday. Cynical and drunk and boring someone in some dark cafe.
        Joni Mitchell   Best?
  • We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
        Emily Dickinson   Best?
  • I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.
        Georges Duhamel   Best?
  • Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.
        Jane Austen   Best?
  • The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
        Harry Golden   Best?
  • We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
        Dr. Seuss   Best?
  • The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
        Paul Valery   Best?
  • The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
        Thucydides   Best?
  • It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
        Aesop   Best?
  • My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • The lazy man always does twice the work.
        Spanish Proverb   Best?
  • The wisest men follow their own direction.
        Euripedes   Best?
  • The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • One of the tortures of jealousy is that it can never turn its eyes away from the thing that pains it.
        Georges Eliot   Best?
  • Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.
        Oprah Winfrey   Best?
  • No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
        Plato   Best?
  • Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
        Anne Frank   Best?
  • How many legs does a dog have if you count his tail as a leg? Four. You can call a tail a leg if you want to, but that doesn't make it a leg.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • ...that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic--on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg--or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • I don't want to become immortal through my work, I want to become immortal through not dying.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
        Alfred Hitchcock   Best?
  • During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  • The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.
        Hunter S. Thompson   Best?
  • I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.
        J. C. Penny   Best?
  • You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
        Vince Lombardi   Best?
  • A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.
        Washington Irving   Best?
  • A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project.
        Dear Abby   Best?
  • He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
        Zig Ziglar   Best?

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