To him who in love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. (from Thanatopsis) - Bryant
The woods were made for the hunter of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song. - Sam Walter Foss
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction.... Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal. (speech, 1874) - Ingalls
Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee. - The Bible, Job 12:8
Everything in nature acts in conformity with law. - Immanuel Kant
Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine! (from Paradise Lost) - John Milton
Nature abhors a vacuum. (from Gargantua) - Rabelais
To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature. (from Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2) - William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. (from Troilus and Cressida, Act 3, Scene 3) - William Shakespeare
I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. (from "The Brook") - Tennyson
When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place - a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow of Nature. - Henry David Thoreau
Nature has always had more force than education. (from Life of Moliere) - Voltaire
Nature never did betray The heart that loved her. (from "Lines Composed above Tintern Abbey") - William Wordsworth
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. (Lebanese Poet and Novelist, Author of "The Prophet" - 1883-1931) - Kahlil Gibran
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. - Kahlil Gibran
All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature. - Aristotle
Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there's no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal. - Binney
I love not man the less, but nature more. - Byron
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. - Dryden
Nature is a volume of which God is the author. - Harvey
Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. - Victor Hugo
Natura genetrix. (Nature is our mother.) - Latin Proverb
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the enlightened mind the whole world sparkles and burns. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature. - Henry David Thoreau
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's life may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. - Wendell Berry
If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere. - Vincent Van Gogh
Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Eliot
A house without a cat, and a well-fed, well-petted, and properly revered cat, may be a perfect house, perhaps, but how can it prove its title? - Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, "I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?" - Bette Midler
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. - Jeff Valdez
Man is a dog's idea of what God should be. - Holbrook Jackson
For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. - Henry Beston
Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas. - Francis Galton
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeak toys? - Douglas Coupland
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. - John Weitz
The more I know about men, the more I like dogs. - Gloria Allred
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. - George Bird Evans
The horse is a companion like a dog or cat and can go places a car cannot. - Debbie Britt-Hay
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive. - Gilda Radner
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. - Joseph Wood Krutch
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. - Jean Cocteau
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. - English Proverb
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it. - Robert Heinlein
The dog is the only being that loves you more than you love yourself. - Fritz von Unruh
The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. - Phillip Brooks
If I tell you that I would be disobeying the god and on that account it is impossible for me to keep quiet, you won't be persuaded by me, taking it that I am ironizing. And if I tell you that it is the greatest good for a human being to have discussions every day about virtue and the other things you hear me talking about, examining myself and others, and that the unexamined life is not livable for a human being, you will be even less persuaded. - Socrates
Space is the breath of art. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. - H.L. Mencken
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. - Thomas Jefferson
Man is a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. - Thomas Jefferson
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the natural rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. - Thomas Jefferson
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently . - Nietzsche
He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. - Nietzsche
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates
Logic is in the eye of the logician. - Gloria Steinem
Hell is other people. - Jean-Paul Sartre
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main… any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. - John Donne
All work is an act of philosophy. - Ayn Rand
Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the axioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it. - Ayn Rand
A "no" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. - Mahatma Gandhi
Plato was a bore. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal. - Leo Tolstoy
Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? And If I am compelled to take part in it, Where is the director? I want to see him. - Soren Kierkegaard
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also add that some things are more nearly certain than others. - Bertrand Russell, "Am I an Atheist or an Agnostic?
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. - Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomis
Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not. - Isaiah Berlin
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it. - Albert Einstein
Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as a man is free to attempt to survive by any random means, as a parasite, a moocher or a looter, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment - so he is free to seek his happiness in any irrational fraud, any whim, any delusion, any mindless escape from reality, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment not to escape the consequences. - Ayn Rand
It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary. - Ayn Rand
The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power. - Ayn Rand
Out of clutter, find simplicity. - Albert Einstein
Universalists are often asked where they stand. The only true answer to give to this question is that we do not stand at all, we move. - L.B. Fisher
The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Cogito, ergo sum (I think; therefore I am) - René Descartes
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero! (Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow) - Horace
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. - Jean-Paul Sartre
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self? - William Law
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. - Carl Jung
There is no reality except the one contained within us. - Hermann Hesse
Philosophy is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat which isn’t there. - Lord Bowen
I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which keeps me from putting myself before others. Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. - Lao-Tzu
If you want a certain thing, you must first be a certain person. Once you are that certain person, obtaining that certain thing will no longer be a concern of yours. - Zen proverb
The human doesn't see things as they are, but as he is. - Racter
There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path. You may remember this "something" as a signal moment in childhood when an urge out of nowhere, a fascination, a peculiar turn of events struck like an annunciation: This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am. {from The Soul's Code} - James Hillman
Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life. - Dale Carnegie
...{A} rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule. {from The Will to Believe} - William James
Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. - Buddha
Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land. {U.S. Supreme Court Justice} - Frank Murphy
We have a God who delights in impossibilities. - Andrew Murray
There was never yet the philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. {from Much Ado About Nothing. Act V. Scene 1} - Shakespeare
Our country is where ever we are well off. - John Milton
One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it -- incredibly. (Theravandan Meditation Master) - Achaan Chah Subato
You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are, and you will not find that person anywhere. - Buddhist Expression
Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will be liberated when grasps that nature, to be apprehended, must be obeyed - that the rules of cognition must be derived from the nature of existence and the nature, the identity, of his cognitive faculty. - Ayn Rand
A traveler in ancient Greece, the story goes, met an old man walking along the road and asked him how to get to Mount Olympus. The old man, who turned out to be Socrates, replied: 'Just make sure that every step you take is in that direction.' - Anonymous
Know, oh beloved, that we were not created in jest or at random, but marvelously made and for some great end. (1058-1117 - Islamic Theologion, Philosopher, Mystic) - Al-Ghazzali
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to the stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear on cheerfully, do all bravely, awaiting occasions, worry never; in a word to, like the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. - William Henry Channing
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it. - R. Buckminster Fuller
It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end. - Ursula Le Guin
We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. - T.S. Eliot
To laugh often and much: To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher; and philosophy begins in wonder. - Plato
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - John Keats
Just as life is an end in itself, so every living human being is an end in himself, not the means to the ends or the welfare of others - and, therefore, man must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. - Ayn Rand
We cannot fight against anything, unless we fight for something -- and what we must fight for is the supremacy of reason, and a view of man as a rational being. - Ayn Rand
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be. - Ayn Rand
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. - Buddha
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. - Henry David Thoreau
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways; the point is to change it. - Karl Marx
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. - Buddha
Life, liberty and property do not exist because men made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. - Frederick Bastiat
Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward. - Soren Kierkegaard
I think therefore I am. (Cogito ergo sum) - Rene Descartes
Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then - we elected them. - Lily Tomlin
We can never make taxation popular, but we can make taxation fair. - Richard M. Nixon
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote? - Bertrand Russell
Gerry Ford is a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off. - Lyndon B. Johnson
Walter Mondale has all the charisma of a speed bump. - Will Durst
Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans. - H.L. Mencken
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. - Thomas Jefferson
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. - Thomas Jefferson
I have never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as a cause for withdrawing from a friendship. - Thomas Jefferson
Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority. - William Jennings Bryan
Act as if the whole election depended on your single vote… - John Wesley
It is better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains. - Thomas Huxley
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger
Vote early and vote often. - Al Capone
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? - Abraham Lincoln
Peace is more precious than a piece of land. - Anwar al-Sadat
Forgive your enemies but never forget their names. - John F. Kennedy
If the happiness of the mass of mankind can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. - Thomas Jefferson
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. - Alfred North Whitehead
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. - Abraham Lincoln
If all that Americans want is security they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government. - Dwight Eisenhower
I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice. - Senator Russell Long
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. - Will Rogers
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. - Will Rogers
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. - Will Rogers
True, lasting peace cannot be secured through the strength of arms alone. Among free peoples, the open exchange of ideas ultimately is our greatest security. - Ronald Reagan
He who slings mud generally loses ground. - Adlai Stevenson
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. - Adlai Stevenson
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! - Will Rogers
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol
The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today. - President Lyndon B. Johnson
There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow. - Christopher Morley
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. - Aristotle
Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am." - Theodore Parker
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. - William Penn
What do I believe? As an American I believe in generosity, in liberty, in the rights of man. These are social and political faiths that are part of me, as they are, I suppose, part of all of us. Such beliefs are easy to express. But part of me too is my relation to all life, my religion. And this is not so easy to talk about. Religious experience is highly intimate and, for me, ready words are not at hand. - Adlai E. Stevenson, speech, Libertyville, Illinois
In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. - Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1959
Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals - that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government - that it is not a charter for government power, but a charter of the citizens' protection against the government. - Ayn Rand
If physical force is to be barred from social relationships, men need an institution charged with the task of protecting their rights under an objective code of rules. This is the task of a government - of a proper government - its basic task, its only moral justification and the reason why men do need a government. A government is the means of placing the retaliatory use of physical force under objective control - i.e., under objectively defined laws. - Ayn Rand
If the misery of our poor is caused not by the laws of nature, but by our great institutions, great is our sin. - Charles Darwin
Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics. - French Proverb
To sum up my political philosopy, I am a fiscal conservative with a social conscience. - Powell, Colin L., My American Journey
Unlike with Reagan and Bush, who seemed groomed for this kind of thing, you get the feeling with Clinton that every now and then, he closes the shades of the Oval Office, locks the door, and screams, 'Whoa! This is really cool!' - Tilford, Mike
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. - Abraham Lincoln
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. - John F. Kennedy
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. - John F. Kennedy
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war. - John F. Kennedy
There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. - John F. Kennedy
The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear. - John F. Kennedy
The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed upon him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual. - Mikhail Bakunin
All the extravagance and incompetence of our present Government is due, in the main, to lawyers, and, in part at least, to good ones. They are responsible for nine-tenths of the useless and vicious laws that now clutter the statute-books, and for all the evils that go with the vain attempt to enforce them. Every Federal judge is a lawyer. So are most Congressmen. Every invasion of the plain rights of the citizens has a lawyer behind it. If all lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones sold to a mah jong factory, we'd be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half. - H.L. Mencken
Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old." - Sir William Osler
The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others. - Ayn Rand
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan
There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation. - James Madison
In a body like Congress where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate, and frequently the more trifling the subject the more animated and protracted the discussion. - Millard Fillmore
There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two. - Bertolt Brecht
Public sentiment is everything, without it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed. - Abraham Lincoln
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. - Inaugural Address, 1841 - William Henry Harrison
The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights. - Inaugural Address, 1841 - John Tyler
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? - Inaugural Address, 1861 - Abraham Lincoln
He serves his party best who serves his country best. - Inaugural Address, 1877 - Rutherford Birchard Hayes
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong. - Henry David Thoreau
I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell. - Harry S. Truman
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all. - Henry Ward Beecher
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. - Henry Ward Beecher
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. - Inaugual Address, 1885 - Grover Cleveland
We want no war of conquest... War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed. - Inaugural Address, 1897 - William McKinley
A government is for the benefit of all the people... - Veto of Arizona Enabling Act, 1911 - William Howard Taft
We mean to have less of Government in business and more business in Government. - Address to Congress, 1921 - Warren Gamaliel Harding
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws and mot of men. Here, the people rule... - Inaugural Address, 1974 - Gerald Rudolph Ford
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. - George Washington
We travel together as passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and I'll say the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave to the ancient enemies of man, half free in liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival of us all. {American Statesman, 1952 Democratic Presidential Candidate} - Adlai Stevenson
With firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in... to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves. - Abraham Lincoln
The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it. {Twenty Years at Hull House} - Jane Addams
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. {Historical Review of Pennsylvania} - Benjamin Franklin
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter. - Benjamin Franklin
There never was a good war or a bad peace. {Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773} - Benjamin Franklin
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. {Letter 3/2/1788 to James Madison} - George Washington
Discipline without freedom is tyranny. Freedom without discipline is chaos. - Cullen Hightower
Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land. {U.S. Supreme Court Justice} - Frank Murphy
If the British public falls for Labour's policies, I say it will be stark staring bonkers. (1964) - Lord Hailsham
Your talking to someone who really understands rock music. - Tipper Gore
Government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people. - Theodore Parker
If you can't convince them, confuse them. - Harry S. Truman
Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader. (written in 1555) - Nostradamus
If we can prevent the Government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy. - Thomas Jefferson
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. - Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
The whole subject of trusts is of vital concern to us, because it presents one, and perhaps the most conspicuous, of the many problems forced upon our attention by the tremendous industrial development which has taken place during the last century, a development which is occurring in all civilized countries, notably in our own. (from speech at Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 20, 1902) - Theodore Roosevelt
This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant. (journalist, political commentator) - George F. Will
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. (from 'The Prince') - Niccolo Machiavelli
The program of classical liberalism, condensed into a single word, would have to read: property. - Ludwig von Mises
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting for the vote. - Benjamin Franklin
Americans can always be counted upon to do the right thing - after all other possibilities have been exhausted. - Winston Churchill
All of this will not be finished in the first one hundred days, nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. - John F. Kennedy
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. - John, Lord Morley
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate. - Hubert H. Humphrey
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. - Nikita Khrushchev
Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. - George Burns
Ninety percent of all politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissenger
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty. - John F. Kennedy
A politician thinks of the next election - a statesman, of the next generation. - James Freeman Clarke
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F. Kennedy
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. - John F. Kennedy
I don't agree with a word you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire
No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out. (1907-1998 - U.S. Senator from Tennessee and Father of U.S. Vice President Al Gore) - Al Gore
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H. L. Mencken
What has destroyed liberty and the rights of men in every government that has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating of all cares and powers into one body. - Thomas Jefferson
The more state 'plans' the more difficult planning becomes for the individual. - Friedrich von Hayek
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side. - Jewish proverb
One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world. - Jewish proverb
When a habit begins to cost money, it's called a hobby. - Jewish proverb
Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water. - Indian proverb
Call on God, but row away from the rocks. - Indian proverb
A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he. - Indian proverb
There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. - Russian proverb
A book is a garden carried in the pocket. - Arabian proverb
A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. - Arabian proverb
If you don't see the bottom, don't wade. - Scottish proverb
It is the beautiful bird that gets caged. - Chinese proverb
A dog that barks all the time gets little attention. - Argentinan proverb
A man who develops himself is born twice. - Argentinan proverb
When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him. - Hindu proverb
Wisdom outweighs strength. - African Proverb
Don't ask questions of fairy tales. - Jewish proverb
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it. - Indian proverb
Fear not the man who fears God. - Arabian proverb
When the heart is full the tongue will speak. - Scottish proverb
A man in this world without learning is as a beast of the field. - Hindu proverb
The goal of my therapy is eccentricity. - James Hillman
I am working toward a psychology of the soul that is based on a psychology of image. {from We've Had A Hundred Years Of Psychotherapy And The World's Getting Worse} - James Hillman
I would rather define self as the interiorization of community. - James Hillman
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Robertson Davies
It is often just as sacred to laugh as it is to pray. - Charles R. Swindoll
Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun. {German-born Author, Psychiatrist} - Ruth Westheimer
A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. - German proverb
The good thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people. - Dorothy S Harper
One learns that the opinions formulated by the pens of our great thinkers over the centuries are strange indeed. (from 'The Ethics of Psychoanalysis' - 1959) - Jacques Lacan
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. - Dr. Joyce Brothers
It is a reduction of our Humanity to hide from pain, our own or others'... Be open, be available, be exposed, be skinless. Skinless? Dance around in your bones. - Wallace Stegner
It is not so much that man is a herd animal, said Freud, but that he is a horde animal led by a chief. - Ernest BeckerScience
Science and art belong to the whole world, and the barriers of nationality vanish before them - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjectures out of such trifling investment of fact. - Mark Twain
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. - Edsgar Dijkstra
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms. - Paul Erdos
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan
All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them. - Albert Einstein
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? - Niels Bohr
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. - Buckminster Fuller
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. - Paul Dirac
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. - John von Neumann
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. - John von Neumann
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. - H. H. Munro (Saki)
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries. - Karl Friedrich Gauss
The grand aim of science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. - Albert Einstein
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. - Wilson Mizner
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli, upon reading a young physicist's p
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. - Wernher Von Braun
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Albert Einstein, Living Philosophies, 1931
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts. - Heinz Pagels, The Dreams of Reason, 1988
The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science. - Sagan, Carl
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. - Albert Einstein
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. - Ernest Rutherford
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert von Szent-Gyorgy
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
The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter. - James Clerk Maxwell
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton
I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery. - René Descartes
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened. - Douglas Adams
There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. - Desmond Morris
It has become increasingly difficult to keep abreast of and to assimilate the investigative reports which accumulate day after day. My friend. . .was ill at ease because he felt unable to control even the area of his own discipline; one suffocates, he once told me, through exposure to the massive body of rapidly growing information. (German Surgeon 1872) - Bernhard von Langenbeck
...we live in a culture of relentless, round-the-clock boosterism for science and technology. With each new discovery and invention, the virtues are always oversold, the drawbacks understated. Who can forget the freely mobile society of the automobile, the friendly atom, the paperless office, the impending crisis of too much leisure time, or the era of universal education ushered in by television? We now hear the same utopian claims about the Internet. But everyone knows science and technology are inevitably a mixed blessing. (from Ritual Abuse, Hot Air, and Missed Opportunities SCIENCE 5 March 1999; 283 (5407): 1461) - Michael Crichton
The simplest schoolboy is not familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed this life. - Ernest Renan
Science belongs to no one country. - Louis Pasteur
If I have been able to see farther than others, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants. - Sir Isaac Newton
Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge. - Aristotle
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. - Thomas Alva Edison
Anatomy is destiny. - Sigmund Freud
You are not thinking. You are merely being logical. - Neils Bohr to Albert Einstein
The great tragedy of Science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. - Thomas Henry Huxley
No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking. - Voltaire
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. - Charles F. Kettering
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. - Eden Phillpotts
Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness. - Gustave Le Bon
Faith is the force of life. - Leo Tolstoy
There is always time in a day to do God's will. - Roy Lessin
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Think positively about yourself, keep your thoughts and your actions clean, ask God who made you to keep on remaking you. - Norman Vincent Peele
I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness. - Mother Teresa
Our humanity were a poor thing were it not for the divinity that stirs within us. - Francis Bacon
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. - Confucius
Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner. - Walter R. Rutherford
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925
The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish on from the other. - Reinhold Niebuhr
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. - Mother Teresa
If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious heaven. - Dante Alighieri
Children can have no better inheritance than believing parents. Religion can become real in the midst of the family as in practically no other way. Many of us have inherited great riches from our parents - the bank account of their personal faith and family prayers. - Nels F.S. Ferre
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new; everything becomes sacred. - Sun Bear
We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it. - Harriet Martineau
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. - George Santayana, Scepticism and Animal Faith, 192
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear. - Felix Adler, "The Ethical Philosophy of Life"
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. - Felix Adler
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. - Matthew Arnold
Heaven, n.: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own. - Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Jesus'ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made--life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control? - Joan B. Campbell, Sojourners, August-September, 19
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. - Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1927
Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die. - F. Forrester Church
All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by...religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need. - Harvey Cox, The Seduction of the Spirit, 1973
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. - H.H. the Dalai Lama
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, Dayton, Tennessee,
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others. - William O. Douglas, opinion, United States v. Ball
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it? I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life. - Albert Einstein, The World as I See It, 1934.
In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done. - Sophia Lyon Fahs
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth. - Harry Emerson Fosdick, The Living of These Days, 1
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. - Abraham Joshua Heschel, New York Journal-American,
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. - Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one. - Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book o
Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life. - William James, The Varieties of Religious Experien
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. - Thomas Jefferson
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. - Thomas Jefferson
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion. - Thomas Jefferson
...it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg. - Thomas Jefferson
The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed. - Mark Morrison-Reed
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. - Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times, December 3,
Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. - Paul Tillich, Saturday Evening Post, June 14, 1958
In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. - Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1959
A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain. - Jessamyn West, The Quaker Reader, 1962
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Connecticut Baptists
We have come from somewhere and are going somewhere. The great architect of the universe never built a stairway that leads to nowhere. - Robert A. Millikan
In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith. - August Wilhelm Von Schlegel
Any religion...is for ever in danger of putrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion. - T.S. Eliot
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. - Buddha
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. - Rabbi Abraham Heschel
It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I. - Charles R. Swindoll
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, "I can't." - Oswald Chambers
Reverence for God gives a man deep strength; his children have a place of refuge and security. - The Bible, Proverbs 14:26
Nothing is life is more wonderful than faith. - Sir William Osler
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: "I." - Ayn Rand
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. - Peter De Vries
If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides. - Old Yiddish proverb
I believe in Christianity as I believe in the sun--not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. - C. S. Lewis
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. - Thomas Paine
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. - Albert Einstein
God gives people every opportunity to make the right choice. - Dr. James Dobson
Know you are where you are not by accident, but by the design of your Creator, for your own development or for the development of those around you. - Abdu'l-Baha
Satan does not try to tempt or deceive good people, he does not know where to find them! - Langenhoven
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking. - H. L . Mencken
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person. - Professor Blackie
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures. - Henry David Thoreau
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Martin Luther King Jr.
There is a divinity which shapes our ends, rough-hew them as we might. {Hamlet} - Shakespeare
We are all pencils in the hand of God. - Mother Theresa
In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. - John Bunyan
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. - Henry Ward Beecher
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. - Henry Ward Beecher
How wonderful, O Lord, are the works of your hands, the sun and the stars, the valleys and the hills, the rivers and lakes all disclose your presence. The beasts of the field, the birds of the air bespeak your wondrous will. In your goodness you have made us able to hear the music of the world, a divine voice sings through all creations. - Hebrew prayer
It is cynicism and fear that freezes life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Act with God in the greatest simplicity. Speak to Him frankly and plainly. Implore His assistance in your affairs just as they are happening; He will never fail to grant it. - Brother Lawrence
Faith expects from God what is beyond all expectation. - Andrew Murray
The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it in my work; my walk, my prayer - in everything. - Mother Teresa
When you see God face to face... He will hold you accountable for what was entrusted to you. - Dr. Paul Meier
Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities. - Robert Murray McCheyne
Be assured, if you walk with God and look to Him and expect help from Him, He will never fail you. - George Mueller
God's gift of wisdom makes us more humble, more joyful, more godly, more quick-sighted as to His will, more resolute in the doing of it. - J.I. Packer
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. - Hudson Taylor
Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there. - A.W Tozer
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed. - Maya Angelou
Faith is not a shelter against difficulties, but belief in the face of all contradictions. - Paul Tournier
The resource from which God gives is boundless, measureless, unlimited, unending, abundant, almighty, and eternal. - Jack Hayford
With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again. - Gloria Gaither
If faith, for us, does mean following, the I believe it will one day carry us to a point when we begin to glimpse all that Christ means. - Michael Card
Our assurance... is built upon a confident assurance in the faithfulness of God. - Richard J. Foster
Times may be hard and people may be demanding, but never forget that life is special. Every single day is a special day. God is at work in you! - Charles R. Swindoll
Faith is like a boomerang; begin using what you have and it comes back to you in greater measure. - Charles Allen
Obedience to God today is the best preparation for tomorrow. - Roy Lessin
This is what I found out about religion: it gives you the courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to a higher power. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
We can go through all the activities of our days in joyful awareness of God's presence. - Richard J. Foster
The storms of life can be used for good in our lives if we let them drive our spirits higher and closer to God. - Roy Lessin
Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. - C.S. Lewis
It is by faith you stand firm. - The Bible, 2 Corinthians 1:24 NIV
A person consists of his faith. Whatever is his faith, even so is he. - Indian proverb
Let never the night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done. - William Shakespeare
My marks and scars I carry with me, to be a witness for me, that I have fought His battles who now will be my Rewarder. - John Bunyan
God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created. - Mark Twain
The Promised Land belongs to the person who takes the risks, whose face is marred by dust and sweat, who strives valiantly while daring everything. - Tony Campolo
Faith is simultaneously long perseverance and unwavering confidence. - Pierre-Yves Emery
Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there. - Cullen Hightower
Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't. - Max Lucado
Be faithful in the little things, for in them our strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small. - Mother Teresa
Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led. But it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. - Oswald Chambers
Faith declares what the senses do not see, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them, not contrary to them. - Blaise Pascal
Let the past sleep, but let it sleep in the sweet embrace of Christ, and let us go on into the invincible future with Him. - Oswald Chambers
God aids the valiant.... Both to you and to me He will give the help needed. - Teresa of Avila
God is with us, and His power is around us. - Charles H. Spurgeon
The motivation and strength to live a life of purity is a by-product of a spiritual commitment. - Dr. James Dobson
He made you so you could share in His creation, could love and laugh and know Him. - Ted Griffen
Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge so as to meet successfully the emergencies of life. Men may acquire knowledge, but wisdom is a direct gift from God. - Bob Jones
If God made us in his image, we have more than repaid the compliment. - Voltaire
We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what he is. - St Augustine
We are pencils in God's hand. - Mother Teresa
Faith has no questions; doubt has no answers. - Author Unknown
Meekness is giving in to God; weakness is giving into self. - Author Unknown
We look at some people as if they were special, gifted, divine. Nobody is special and gifted and divine. No more than you are, no more than I am. The only difference, the very only one, is that they have begun to understand what they really are and have begun to practice it. - Richard Bach
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of the wilderness. - Havelock Ellis
If you knew who walked beside you, you would never fear. - Author Unknown
God has a purpose for everything we face in life. No matter how screwed up and terrible our situations may be; we can find rest and peace just knowing that some day down the road, a more mature person will look back with a smile and know why the trials were necessary. - Charity Kauffman
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. - Buddha
Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down. If you cannot refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven, and like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled, and it will be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven... (from "Women Who Run With The Wolves") - Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all? (from But for the Grace of God) - Sister Miriam Godwinson
Why don't I have a hundred arms to aid these poor ones calling for help? (16th century) - St. Camillus de Lellis
I got up early one morning and rushed right into the day. I had so much to accomplish that I didn't have time to pray. Problems tumbled about me; and heavier became each task, "Why doesn't God help me?" I wondered and He answered, "You didn't ask me." - Francis Gray
Dear Lord, be good to me, the sea is so wide and my boat is so small. - Irish Fisherman's Prayer
I love you my brother whoever you are, whether you worship in your church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosq ue. You and I are all children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of one Supreme Being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all. - Kahlil Gibran
I never behold them (the heavens filled with stars) that I do not feel I am looking into the face of God. I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God. - Abraham Lincoln
Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable and fall asleep and miss your life. - Brian Andreas
Don't go to heaven in search of angels, seek to find heaven from angels! - Langenhoven
The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. And just so does our God to us. (American Minister and Reformer - 1832-1911) - Hannah Whitall Smith
We are not a post-war generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming. (1892-1983) - Corrie ten Boom
If God is with us, who can be against us? - (in The Power of Positive Thinking) - Norman Vincent Peale
Conceit is God's gift to little men. - Bruce Barton
have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read. - Thomas Jefferson
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. - Frederick Buechner
For God Himself works in our souls, in the deepest depths, taking increasing control as we are progressively willing to be prepared for His wonder. - Thomas R. Kelly
By living fully, recognizing that all we do is by His power, we honor God; He in turn blesses us. - Becky Laird
We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength... waiting for the endless good which God is always giving as fast as He can get us to take it in. - George MacDonald
For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see? - Augustine
No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our wings of faith and allow the winds of God's spirit to lift us, no obstacle is too great to overcome. - Roy Lessin
When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. - Barbara J. Winter
If you believe in the Lord, He will do half the work - but only the second half. He helps those who help themselves. - Cyrus H.K. Curtis
Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart. - Joseph Fort Newton
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of faith is to see what we believe. - St. Augustine
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done. - Charles Wesley
A good man is not a perfect man; a good man is an honest man, faithful, and unhesitatingly responsive to the voice of God in his life. - John Fischer
God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. - Richard J. Foster
I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. - The Bible, Matthew 17:20
I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-make world, not a man-made world. - Helen Keller
And I saw a river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was 'suffering'... And then I saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was 'love.' (1542-1591 - Spanish Mystic, Theologian) - St. John Of The Cross
Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them...he cried, 'Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?'... God said, 'I did do something. I made you.' - Sufi Teaching
Faith in God is like believing a man can walk over Niagara Falls on a tightrope while pushing a wheelbarrow. Trust in God is like getting into the wheelbarrow! To believe God can do something miraculous is one thing; to risk his willingness to do it in your life is another. - James C. Dobson
A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty. - Mahatma Gandhi
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses. - Cato the Elder
You can't put off being young until you retire. - Philip Larkin
The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one. - Simone de Beauvoir
Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire. - Alex Comfort
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking. - Gail Sheehy
Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh. - Horace
Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. - Shakespeare
Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak Whispers the o're-fraught heart, and bids it break. {The Tragedy of Macbeth, IV, iii) - Shakespeare
My age is as a lusty winter Frosty, but kindly. - Shakespeare
The better part of valor is discretion. - Shakespeare
Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast. - Shakespeare
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - Shakespeare
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. - Shakespeare
The very substance of the ambitions is merely the shadow of a dream. - Shakespeare
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. - Shakespeare
There was never yet the philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. {from Much Ado About Nothing. Act V. Scene 1} - Shakespeare
But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail. - Shakespeare
Better three hours too soon, than one minute too late. - Shakespeare
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite. - Shakespeare
There is a divinity which shapes our ends, rough-hew them as we might. {Hamlet} - Shakespeare
Brevity is the soul of wit. - Shakespeare
No legacy is so rich as honesty. - Shakespeare
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. - Shakespeare
If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me... {from Macbeth} - Shakespeare
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. - Shakespeare
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree, such a hare is madness the youth to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. {The Merchant of Venice} - William Shakespeare
And, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of Heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun. {Romeo and Juliet} - William Shakespeare
Let never the night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done. - William Shakespeare
The miserable have no other medicine; but only hope. (Claudio, in Measure for Measure Act 3, Scene 1) - William Shakespeare
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. - William Shakespeare
I am not a slut, though I thank the Gods I am foul. - William Shakespeare
In converting Jews to Christians, you raise the price of pork. - William Shakespeare
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. (from Troilus and Cressida, Act 3, Scene 3) - William Shakespeare
Ay, sir; to be honest - as this world goes - is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. - William Shakespeare
To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature. (from Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2) - William Shakespeare
What's gone and what's past help should be past grief. - William Shakespeare
It is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself; it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest. - William Shakespeare
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. - William Shakespeare
And then the whining schoolboy..., creeping like snail unwillingly to school... {As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII} - William Shakespeare
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. - William Shakespeare
Is it not strange that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies? - William Shakespeare
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds. - William Shakespeare
It is a wise father who knows his own child. - William Shakespeare
Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war. - William Shakespeare {Julius Caesar, III:2}
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel!in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! - William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - William Shakespeare, "MacBeth"
Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all. - Bruce Springsteen
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. - Broadway musical "Rent"
Where it all ends, I can't fathom, my friends. - Jimmy Buffett
Oh, Mister Porter, what shall I do? I wanted to go to Birmingham, but they've carried me on to Crewe. - Marie Lloyd
You know my temperature's risin', The Jukebox's blowin' a fuse, My heart's beatin' rhythm, My soul keeps a singin' the blues - Roll over Beethoven - Chuck Berry
The words of the prophets are written/On the subway walls. - Simon and Garfunkel
I don't care too much for money, money can't buy me love. (The Beatles) - John Lennon and Paul McCartney
In olden days a glimpse of stocking Was looked on as something shocking But now, God knows anything goes. - Cole Porter
Lovely Rita, meter maid. - John Lennon and Paul McCartney
If I knew how you did it to me then I'd do it to you. - Gerry and the Pacemakers
Girls just wanna have fun. - Cyndi Lauper
In Penny Lane the barber shaves another customer. - The Beatles
R-E-M-O-R-S-E! Those dry Martinis did the work for me: Last night I feel like thirty cents, My eyes are blurred, my coppers hot, I'll try to eat, but I cannot. It is no time for mirth and laughter, The cold, gray dawn of the morning after. - George Ade
So I want to warn you laddy, Though I think you're perfectly swell, That my heart belongs to daddy, And my daddy he treats it so well. - Cole Porter
In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty, I first set my eyes on Molly Malone. - Irish ditty
When the night has been too lonely, and the road has been too long, and you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong, just remember, in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, lies the seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the rose. (from 'The Rose,' performed by Bette Midler) - Amanda McBroom
If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend. - Stone Temple Pilots
I'll lean on you and you lean on me and we'll be okay. - Dave Matthews Band
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind. - Bob Dylan
For the times they are a-changin'. - Bob Dylan
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends, but there's nothing like seeing your history in the faces of your friends. - Ani DiFranco
Make the best of this test and don't ask why... it's not a question but a lesson learned in time. It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right... I hope you have the time of your life. - Green Day
No other road, no other way, no day but today. - Broadway musical "Rent"
If we weren't all crazy we would go insane. - Jimmy Buffett
It's the end of the world as we know it... and I feel fine. - REM
You've got to be tough when consumed by desire, 'cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire. - Garth Brooks
They say there's a heaven for those who await... some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints... the sinners are much more fun. - Billy Joel
There I am in younger days, star gazing. Painting picture perfect maps of how my life and love would be. Not counting the unmarked paths of misdirection, my compass faith in love's perfection... I missed ten million miles of road I should have seen. - Indigo Girls
All you need is love, Love is all you need. - The Beatles
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere. - Tim McGraw
Don't worry - Be happy. - Avatar Meher Baba
An atheist is a guy who watches a Notre Dame-SMU football game and doesn't care who wins. - Dwight Eisenhower
A team should be an extension of the coach's personality. My teams were arrogant and obnoxious. - Al McGuire
If I ever needed a brain transplant, I'd choose a sportswriter because I'd want a brain that had never been used. - Norm Van Brocklin
Toots Shor's restaurant is so crowded nobody goes there anymore. - Yogi Berra
You've got to be a man to play baseball for a living, but you've got to have a lot of little boy in you, too. - Roy Campanella
Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. {1960} - Joe Garagiola
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi
A ball player's got to be kept hungry to become a big-leaguer. That's why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues. - Joe DiMaggio
We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. - Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Maveri
Half this game is ninety percent mental. - Yogi Berra
It takes a lot of character and mental toughness to go out there and play everyday no matter how you feel. - Todd Benzinger of the Cincinnati Reds on Cal Ripke
[D]on't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. - Leroy [Satchel] Paige, New York Post, October 4, 1
An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens. - Robert Benchley
The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. - Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback and sports
Courage... is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. - Harper Lee
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. - Yogi Berra
Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is. - Yogi Berra
We have deep depth. - Yogi Berra
We made too many wrong mistakes. - Yogi Berra
If people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them. - Yogi Berra
Fatigue makes cowards of us all. - Vince Lombardi
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser. - Lou Holtz
I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. - Lou Holtz
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated. - Lou Holtz
Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them. - Lou Holtz
Don’t let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times. - Lou Holtz
You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose. - Lou Holtz
Have a dream. Make a plan. Go for it. You'll get there, I promise. (A woman with multiple sclerosis who required 24 hours on crutches but finished the 1993 New York City Marathon - 26.2 miles) - Zoe Koplowitz
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. - John Wooden
Floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee. - Muhammad Ali
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. - Winston Churchill
Never ask a better player to hit with you... - Pancho Segura
If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. - Phil Jackson
I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost more than 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life... And that is why I succeed. - Michael Jordan
In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke. - William T. Tilden II
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. - Hank Aaron
If you don't succeed at first, don't despair. Remember, it takes tim