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Anger Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
- William Congreve
Art What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
- John Updike
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
- Ansel Adams
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
- Octavio Paz
Business If you have to forecast, forecast often.
- Edgar R. Fiedler
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
- Blaine Lee
Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
- Thomas J. Watson
Computers Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
- Andy Rooney
Dreams Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
- Eugene Ionesco
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory.
- Andre Breton
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
- Erma Bombeck
Education Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Equality In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
- John James Ingalls
Experience We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
- Mark Twain
You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.
- Stephen King
Faith Faith is reason grown courageous.
- Sherwood Eddy
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
- William Congreve
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
- Quentin Crisp
It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
- Lana Turner
Friendship A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
- Pam Brown
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
- Thomas Jefferson
A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.
- Pam Brown
Government The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
- Lewis Mumford
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
- Thomas Paine
History Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
- Henry B. Adams
Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
- Sandra Day O'Connor
Failure is impossible.
- Susan B. Anthony
Humor Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.
- Oscar W. Firkins
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James
If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.
- Joan Rivers
Imagination I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
- George S. Patton
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
- L. Frank Baum
Intelligence Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
- Josh Billings
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Life I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
- John Burroughs
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
- Mel Brooks
Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Love A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
- Rupert Brooke
In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.
- Erich Fromm
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Marriage There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first.
- Adela Rogers St. Johns
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Mortality Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."
- Bill Maher
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
- Clarence Darrow
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
- Mark Twain
Movies Spielberg isn't a filmmaker, he's a confectioner.
- Alex Cox
The secret to film is that it's an illusion.
- George Lucas
I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.
- Oskar Werner
| Music You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
- Bryan Ferry
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
- Robert Browning
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- W. H. Auden
Nature Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
- Henry Havelock Ellis
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Old Age It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
- Bill Vaughn
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
- Bob Hope
The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
- Bob Wells
On Change When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits - all without any directing intelligence at all.
- Bruce Barton
When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
- Stanislaw Lec
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
- Carl T. Rowan
Patriotism It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
- Arthur C. Clarke
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
- William R. Inge
Peace Poetry A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
- Edward M. Forster
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
- Lionel Trilling
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
- Jean Cocteau
Politics He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
- Henry B. Adams
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
- Ambrose Bierce
Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
- Dan Quayle
Religion If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
- Kahlil Gibran
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
- John Morley
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
- George Bernard Shaw
Science Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
- Marcus Aurelius
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
- James D. Watson
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Society Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
- Thomas Szasz
It is not a fragrant world.
- Raymond Chandler
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
- Bill Vaughan
Sports Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
- Frank Gifford
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
- Jim Bishop
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali
Success The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
- Salvador Dali
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
- Oscar Wilde
There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
- Carrie Fisher
Technology Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
- Gene Spafford
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
- Larry Wall
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
- Al Boliska
Time Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.
- Henry Austin Dobson
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
- Dion Boucicault
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
- James M. Barrie
War Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
- Stuart Chase
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
- Napoleon Hill
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
- Henry Havelock Ellis
Words to the Wise There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
- Charles Dickens
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
- Benjamin Franklin
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James
Workplace Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
- Ann Landers
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
- Pablo Picasso
Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work.
- David Sarnoff
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