Ambrose Bierce Quotes

A man is known by the company he organizes.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
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Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.
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Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
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Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
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Abstainer - a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking.
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Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
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AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
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An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
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Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
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Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
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Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
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Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
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Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
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Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
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Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
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Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
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COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
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Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
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Conservative - a statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from a Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
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Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.
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Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.
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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
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Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
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Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.
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CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
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Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
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Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
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Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
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Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
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Doubt is the father of invention.
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
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Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
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Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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Education, n.: That which discloses the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Education. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
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Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
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Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
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Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
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Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
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Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
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Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.
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I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
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Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
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It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
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JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
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Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
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Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
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Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
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Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
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Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
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Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
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Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
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Patience - a minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.
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Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.
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Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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Business Quotes

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.
William Feather

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry Ford

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey

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

Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by moments of stark terror.
Al Boliska

All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.
Will Rogers

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
Andrew Carnegie

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
Tim Berners-Lee

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.
Edgar R. Fiedler

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle

Business is a combination of war and sport.
Andre Maurois

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
Henry R. Luce

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.
Peter Drucker

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
Stanislaw Lem

Carpe per diem - seize the check.
Robin Williams

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
Evan Esar

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
Evan Esar

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
Gary Ryan Blair

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
Stanislaw Lem

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
Will Rogers

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
Colin Powell

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

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard Aiken

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.
Herbert Hoover

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.
Andy Warhol

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
Robert Orben

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
Ted Turner

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Robert H. Schuller

For a lot of people, the weekly paycheck is "take-home pay" because home is the only place they can afford to go with it.
Charles A. Jaffe

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
Norman Cousins

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.
Theodore Isaac Rubin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar R. Fiedler

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
Charles Kettering

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston Churchill

I buy when other people are selling.
J. Paul Getty

I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations.
Ralph Nader

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese

I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for - getting paid for doing what you love.
Tiger Woods

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Edward Appleton

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau

I want to put a ding in the universe.
Steve Jobs

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
Jennifer Aniston

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
Lord Acton

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Jane Fonda

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
Thomas J. Watson

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
Will Rogers

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
J. Paul Getty

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Kahlil Gibran

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B. C. Forbes

If you have to forecast, forecast often.
Edgar R. Fiedler

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. Schuller

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.
Theodore White

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
J. Paul Getty

In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
William Wordsworth

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold S. Geneen

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Scott Adams

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network.
Mitchell Kapor

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
Dale Dauten

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Will Rogers

It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.
Charles A. Jaffe

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
Robert Browning

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.
Meg Whitman

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker

My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Ted Turner

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.
Richard Nelson Bolles

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
Isaac Asimov

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
Thomas J. Watson

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
Arnold H. Glasow

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
A. C. Benson

Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
Scott McNealy

Our favorite holding period is forever.
Warren Buffett

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Edward Gibbon

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'
Sinclair Lewis

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell

Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
B. C. Forbes

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
Scott Adams

So little done, so much to do.
Cecil Rhodes

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Paul Tournier

Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.
Charles A. Jaffe

Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
Walter Scott

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
Arthur C. Clarke

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.
Rupert Murdoch

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
Michael Korda

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
Max de Pree

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose Bierce

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Walter Lippmann

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
Blaine Lee

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
Albert Einstein


There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
Peter Drucker

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
Alvin Toffler

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Clement Stone

We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference.
Steve Ballmer

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
Tim Berners-Lee

Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.
Charles A. Jaffe

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.
Blaine Lee

What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'
Steve Ballmer

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
Paul A. Volcker

When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
James H. Boren

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson

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

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.
William A. Ward

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Tom Brokaw

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.
Steve Ross

Quotations of Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore, also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was born in Calcutta, India into a wealthy Brahmin family. He was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A cultural icon of Bengal and India, he became Asia's first Nobel laureate when he won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's works included Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World). His verse, short stories, and novels - many defined by rhythmic lyricism, colloquial language, meditative naturalism, and philosophical contemplation - received worldwide acclaim. Tagore was also a cultural reformer and polymath who modernised Bangla art by rejecting strictures binding it to classical Indian forms. Two songs from his rabindrasangeet canon are now the national anthems of Bangladesh and India: the Amar Shonar Bangla and the Jana Gana Mana. He was born on 7 May 1861 in Kolkata, India and Died on 7 August 1941 in Kolkata, India.

1. You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
2. I slept and dreamt that life was Joy. I woke and saw that life was Duty. I acted, and behold, Duty was Joy.
3. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
4. The emancipation of our physical nature is in attaining health, of our social being in attaining goodness, and of our self in attaining love.
5. Do not say, “It is morning,” and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.
6. Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God’s dust is greater than your idol.
7. According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and therefore capable of giving us joy. For us the highest purpose of this world is not merely living in it, knowing it and making use of it, but realizing our own selves in it through expansion of sympathy; not alienating ourselves from it and dominating it, but comprehending and uniting it with ourselves in perfect union.
8. I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door - or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
9. We live in the world when we love it.
10. We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
11. Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.
12. Objects of knowledge maintain an infinite distance from us who are the knowers. For knowledge is not union. Therefore the further world of freedom awaits us there where we reach truth, not through feeling it by senses or knowing it by reason, but through union of perfect sympathy.
13. It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
14. If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
15. Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.
16. Asks the Possible of the Impossible, “Where is your dwelling-place?” “In the dreams of the Impotent,” comes the answer.
17. Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization.
18. Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the universal being; truth the perfect comprehension of the universal mind. We individuals approach it through our own mistakes and blunders, through our accumulated experience, through our illumined consciousness - how, otherwise, can we know truth?
19. We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
20. There are two kinds of adventurers; those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won’t.
21. In love all the contradiction of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance. Love must be one and two at the same time. Only love is motion and rest in one. Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest. Bondage and liberation are not antagonistic in love. For love is most free and at the same time most bound.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

In the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy as a prisoner's chains.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

No one should ever sit in this office over 70 years old, and that I know.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only Americans can hurt America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our pleasures were simple - they included survival.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pessimism never won any battle.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The purpose is clear. It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The sergeant is the Army.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The United States strongly seeks a lasting agreement for the discontinuance of nuclear weapons tests. We believe that this would be an important step toward reduction of international tensions and would open the way to further agreement on substantial measures of disarmament.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

War settles nothing.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

'Worry' is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

George Will Quotes

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
George Will

A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind.
George Will

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.
George Will

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.
George Will

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
George Will

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.
George Will

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.
George Will

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
George Will

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will

Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.
George Will

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
George Will

In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
George Will

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.
George Will

Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.
George Will

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
George Will

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
George Will

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"
George Will

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
George Will

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
George Will

The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
George Will

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.
George Will

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes.
George Will

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
George Will

World War II was the last government program that really worked.
George Will

You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
George Will

English Proverbs & Sayings Part

1. Plenty is no plague.
2. Politeness costs little (nothing), but yields much.
3. Poverty is no sin.
4. Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
5. Practise what you preach.
6. Praise is not pudding.
7. Pride goes before a fall.
8. Procrastination is the thief of time.
9. Promise is debt.
10. Promise little, but do much.
11. Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them.
12. Put not your hand between the bark and the tree.
13. Rain at seven, fine at eleven.
14. Rats desert a sinking ship.
15. Repentance is good, but innocence is better.
16. Respect yourself, or no one else will respect you.
17. Roll my log and I will roll yours.
18. Rome was not built in a day.
19. Salt water and absence wash away love.
20. Saying and doing are two things.
21. Score twice before you cut once.
22. Scornful dogs will eat dirty puddings.
23. Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
24. Self done is soon done.
25. Self done is well done.
26. Self is a bad counsellor.
27. Self-praise is no recommendation.
28. Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.
29. Set a thief to catch a thief.
30. Shallow streams make most din.
31. Short debts (accounts) make long friends.
32. Silence gives consent.
33. Since Adam was a boy.
34. Sink or swim!
35. Six of one and half a dozen of the other.
36. Slow and steady wins the race.
37. Slow but sure.
38. Small rain lays great dust.
39. So many countries, so many customs.
40. So many men, so many minds.
41. Soft fire makes sweet malt.
42. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
43. Soon learnt, soon forgotten.
44. Soon ripe, soon rotten.
45. Speak (talk) of the devil and he will appear (is sure to appear).
46. Speech is silver but silence is gold.
47. Standers-by see more than gamesters.
48. Still waters run deep.
49. Stolen pleasures are sweetest.
50. Stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach.
51. Stretch your legs according to the coverlet.
52. Strike while the iron is hot.
53. Stuff today and starve tomorrow.
54. Success is never blamed.
55. Such carpenters, such chips.
56. Sweep before your own door.
57. Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
58. Take us as you find us.
59. Tarred with the same brush.
60. Tastes differ.
61. Tell that to the marines.
62. That cock won't fight.
63. That which one least anticipates soonest comes to pass.
64. That's a horse of another colour.
65. That's where the shoe pinches!
66. The beggar may sing before the thief (before a footpad).
67. The best fish smell when they are three days old.
68. The best fish swim near the bottom.
69. The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good.
70. The busiest man finds the most leisure.
71. The camel going to seek horns lost his ears.
72. The cap fits.
73. The cask savours of the first fill.
74. The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream.
75. The cat would eat fish and would not wet her paws.
76. The chain is no stronger than its weakest link.
77. The cobbler should stick to his last.
78. The cobbler's wife is the worst shod.
79. The darkest hour is that before the dawn.
80. The darkest place is under the candlestick.
81. The devil is not so black as he is painted.
82. The devil knows many things because he is old.
83. The devil lurks behind the cross.
84. The devil rebuking sin.
85. The dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
86. The Dutch have taken Holland !
87. The early bird catches the worm.
88. The end crowns the work.
89. The end justifies the means.
90. The evils we bring on ourselves are hardest to bear.
91. The exception proves the rule.
92. The face is the index of the mind.
93. The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love.
94. The fat is in the fire.
95. The first blow is half the battle.
96. The furthest way about is the nearest way home.
97. The game is not worth the candle.
98. The heart that once truly loves never forgets.
99. The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.
100. The last drop makes the cup run over.

101. The last straw breaks the camel's back.
102. The leopard cannot change its spots.
103. The longest day has an end.
104. The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
105. The moon does not heed the barking of dogs.
106. The more haste, the less speed.
107. The more the merrier.
108. The morning sun never lasts a day.
109. The mountain has brought forth a mouse.
110. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the flesh.
111. The pitcher goes often to the well but is broken at last.
112. The pot calls the kettle black.
113. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
114. The receiver is as bad as the thief.
115. The remedy is worse than the disease.
116. The rotten apple injures its neighbours.
117. The scalded dog fears cold water.
118. The tailor makes the man.
119. The tongue of idle persons is never idle.
120. The voice of one man is the voice of no one.
121. The way (the road) to hell is paved with good intentions.
122. The wind cannot be caught in a net.
123. The work shows the workman.
124. There are lees to every wine.
125. There are more ways to the wood than one.
126. There is a place for everything, and everything in its place.
127. There is more than one way to kill a cat.
128. There is no fire without smoke.
129. There is no place like home.
130. There is no rose without a thorn.
131. There is no rule without an exception.
132. There is no smoke without fire.
133. There's many a slip 'tween (== between) the cup and the lip.
134. There's no use crying over spilt milk.
135. They are hand and glove.
136. They must hunger in winter that will not work in summer.
137. Things past cannot be recalled.
138. Think today and speak tomorrow.
139. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
140. Time and tide wait for no man.
141. Time cures all things.
142. Time is money.
143. Time is the great healer.
144. Time works wonders.
145. To add fuel (oil) to the fire (flames).
146. To angle with a silver hook.
147. To be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth.
148. To be head over ears in debt.
149. To be in one's birthday suit.
150. To be up to the ears in love.

100 English Proverbs & Sayings -part 2

1. If there were no clouds, we should not enjoy the sun.
2. If things were to be done twice all would be wise.
3. If we can't as we would, we must do as we can.
4. If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
5. If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow.
6. If you cannot bite, never show your teeth.
7. If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have.
8. If you dance you must pay the fiddler.
9. If you laugh before breakfast you'll cry before supper.
10. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
11. If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too.
12. If you throw mud enough, some of it will stick.
13. If you try to please all you will please none.
14. If you want a thing well done, do it yourself.
15. Ill-gotten gains never prosper.
16. Ill-gotten, ill-spent.
17. In every beginning think of the end.
18. In for a penny, in for a pound.
19. In the country of the blind one-eyed man is a king.
20. In the end things will mend.
21. In the evening one may praise the day.
22. Iron hand (fist) in a velvet glove.
23. It is a good horse that never stumbles.
24. It is a long lane that has no turning.
25. It is a poor mouse that has only one hole.
26. It is an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
27. It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.
28. It is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait.
29. It is easy to swim if another hoids up your chin (head).
30. It is enough to make a cat laugh.
31. It is good fishing in troubled waters.
32. It is never too late to learn.
33. It is no use crying over spilt milk.
34. It is the first step that costs.
35. It never rains but it pours.
36. It's as broad as it's long.
37. It's no use pumping a dry well.
38. It's one thing to flourish and another to fight.
39. It takes all sorts to make a world.
40. Jackdaw in peacock's feathers.
41. Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail.
42. Judge not of men and things at first sight.
43. Just as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined.
44. Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
45. Keep your mouth shut and your ears open.
46. Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
47. Last, but not least.
48. Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.
49. Learn to creep before you leap.
50. Learn to say before you sing.
51. Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
52. Least said, soonest mended.
53. Leaves without figs.
54. Let bygones be bygones.
55. Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.
56. Let sleeping dogs lie.
57. Let well (enough) alone.
58. Liars need good memories.
59. Lies have short legs.
60. Life is but a span.
61. Life is not a bed of roses.
62. Life is not all cakes and ale (beer and skittles).
63. Like a cat on hot bricks.
64. Like a needle in a haystack.
65. Like begets like.
66. Like cures like.
67. Like father, like son.
68. Like draws to like.
69. Like master, like man.
70. Like mother, like daughter.
71. Like parents, like children.
72. Like priest, like people.
73. Like teacher, like pupil.
74. Little chips light great fires.
75. Little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
76. Little pigeons can carry great messages.
77. Little pitchers have long ears.
78. Little strokes fell great oaks.
79. Little thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
80. Little things amuse little minds.
81. Live and learn.
82. Live and let live.
83. Live not to eat, but eat to live.
84. Long absent, soon forgotten.
85. Look before you leap.
86. Look before you leap, but having leapt never look back.
87. Lookers-on see more than players.
88. Lord (God, Heaven) helps those (them) who help themselves.
89. Lost time is never found again.
90. Love cannot be forced.
91. Love in a cottage.
92. Love is blind, as well as hatred.
93. Love me, love my dog.
94. Love will creep where it may not go.
95. Make haste slowly.
96. Make hay while the sun shines.
97. Make or mar.
98. Man proposes but God disposes.
99. Many a fine dish has nothing on it.
100. Many a good cow has a bad calf.

Popular Quotes About Computer & Technology

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

–– Scott Adams

There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.

–– Guy Almes

There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.

–– Jeremy S. Anderson

If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.

–– John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life

Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three hours of usenet.

–– Anonymous

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

–– Anonymous

Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!

–– Rory Bremner

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

–– Andrew Brown

Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.

–– Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA

By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. There are no plans to replace it, since it was never needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above.

–– Ken Iverson

Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming.

–– Guy Kawasaki

I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

–– D. H. Lawrence

Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all across the country know about it.

–– Mark Leeper

Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?

–– Michael Meissner

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

–– Dennis Miller, "Saturday Night Live," U.S. television show

The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.

–– Jerry Olson

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

–– Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

–– Jeff Raskin

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

–– B. F. Skinner

If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens.

–– Joseph Snipp

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

If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine.

–– Rob Stampfli

Men have become the tools of their tools.

–– Henry David Thoreau

Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.

–– John Tudor

Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.

–– Unknown author

Popular Quotes About Health

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

–– Carol Burnett

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

–– Ellen DeGeneres

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

–– Jean Kerr

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.

–– Carol Leifer

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.

–– George H. Mead

I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.

–– Richard Nixon, U.S. President

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

–– Mark Twain

You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax––tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough.

–– Pearl Williams

Popular Quotes About Friendship

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

–– Arnold Bennett

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

–– Samuel Butler

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

–– Fr. Jerome Cummings

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.

–– Benjamin Disraeli

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

–– Euripides

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!

–– Henry Ford

There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

–– Benjamin Franklin

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

–– E. W. Howe

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

–– Thomas Jones

The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

–– Eugene Kennedy

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

–– Abraham Lincoln

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

–– Aaron Machado

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

–– Henry Miller

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

–– Friedrich Nietzsche

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.

–– Anaïs Nin

We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.

–– Caroline Norton

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate now knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

–– Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.

–– Samuel Paterson

Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

–– Rainer Maria Rilke

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that sense it is more ideal and less subject to trouble than marriage is.

–– George Santayana

Good friends are good for your health.

–– Irwin Sarason

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

–– Sydney Smith

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

–– Robert Louis Stevenson

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

–– Walter Winchell

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

–– Virginia Woolf

Popular Quotes About Success-Failure

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

–– Maya Angelou

There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

–– Neils Bohr

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

–– Niels Bohr

Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived.

–– William Jennings Bryant

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

–– Francis Crawford

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

–– Josephus Daniels

... I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

–– Thomas Edison

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

–– Albert Einstein

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

–– Henry Ford

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

–– Robert G. Ingersoll

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

–– James Joyce

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

–– Abraham Lincoln

The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

–– Abraham Lincoln

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

–– Orison Swett Marden

No other success can compensate for failure in the home.

–– David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism

What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

–– Robert Schuller

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?

–– Robert Schuller

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

–– Beverly Sills

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.

–– Sydney Smith

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

–– Arnold Toynbee

If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.

–– Abigail Van Buren

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

–– Gore Vidal

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

–– George E. Woodberry

Popular Quotes About Experience

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

–– Albert Camus

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

–– Albert Einstein

Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.

–– Elbert Hubbard

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

–– Aldous Huxley

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

–– Aldous Huxley

Experience teaches only the teachable.

–– Aldous Huxley

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

–– Vernon Law

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

–– Vince Lombardi

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

–– George Bernard Shaw

Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.

–– Sioux Indian Prayer

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

–– Don Stanford

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

–– Robert L. Stevenson

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

–– Oscar Wilde

Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes.

–– Oscar Wilde

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience––well, that comes from poor judgement.

–– Cousin Woodman

Popular Quotes About Communication

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.

–– Alford

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

–– Anonymous

The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.

–– Anonymous

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say –– unless you insist on saying it.

–– Anonymous

The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

–– Josh Billings

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

–– Edward Bulwer-Lytton

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

–– Calvin Coolidge

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

–– Gandhi

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

–– Ernesto "Che" Guevara

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

–– Ernest Hemingway

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

–– Kin Hubbard

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.

–– Aldous Huxley

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

–– Stanislaw J. Lec

I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

–– Tom Lehrer

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

–– Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

–– Abraham Lincoln

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

–– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.

–– Mignon McLaughlin

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

–– John Stuart Mill

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

–– John Stuart Mill

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

–– Mother Teresa

It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.

–– Tom Robbins

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

–– George Bernard Shaw

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

–– Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

–– James McNeill Whistler

Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will.

–– Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Popular Quotes About Education

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches,
but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their
ear to find out if it stopped.
–– Marcel Achard


Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
–– Anonymous


Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
–– Francis Bacon


Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
–– Jacques Barzun


Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
–– Hector Louis Berlioz


It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
–– Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed


It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
–– J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man


The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
–– Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
–– Albert Camus


A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
–– Thomas Carruthers


Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
–– Chinese Proverb


A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
–– John Ciardi


The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
–– Cicero


The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
–– Robertson Davies


Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
–– Benjamin Disraeli


The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
–– Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945


Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
–– Norman Douglas


How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
–– Alexandre Dumas fils


If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
–– Tryon Edwards


It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
–– Albert Einstein


Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
–– Ralph Waldo Emerson


The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
–– Anatole France


You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
–– Robert Frost


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


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


I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember.
–– Shecky Greene


Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role.
–– William Torrey Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, 1889


Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
–– Aldous Huxley


Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
–– Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?)


If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
–– Pope John Paul I


To teach is to learn twice.
–– Joseph Joubert


An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
–– Carl Gustav Jung


University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
–– Henry Kissinger


Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
–– Bob Perelman


A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and I don't care.
–– Richard Pratt, Pacific Computer Weekly, 20 July 1990


Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
–– John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics)


It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.
–– Bertrand Russell


It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
–– Leslie Jeanne Sahler


A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
–– George Bernard Shaw


Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
–– B.F. Skinner


The philosophy exam was a piece of cake –– which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
–– Smith & Jones


I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
–– Socrates


Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
–– G. M. Trevelyan


I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
–– Mark Twain


The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
–– William Arthur Ward


If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
–– John Watson, University of Canterbury


The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
–– Virginia Woolf