Best Richard Adams Quotes: The most famous quotes by Richard Adams
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal but ideas are immortal. — Richard Adams
My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today. — Richard Adams
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. — Richard Adams
Best Samuel Adams Quotes: The most famous quotes by Samuel Adams
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. — Samuel Adams
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms… — Samuel Adams
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen. — Samuel Adams
Best Scott Adams Quotes: The most famous quotes by Scott Adams
I believe everyody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn’t trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string. — Scott Adams
There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as ‘nutty methods.’ Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as a complete waste of time. — Scott Adams
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. — Scott Adams
I’m slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can’t motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles. — Scott Adams
Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. — Scott Adams
No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot. — Scott Adams
We’re a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants. — Scott Adams
We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational. — Scott Adams
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. — Scott Adams
The Dilbert Principle The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage–Management. — Scott Adams
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. — Scott Adams
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. — Scott Adams
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public. — Scott Adams
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask Do they get smart just in time to ask questions — Scott Adams
Best William Adams Quotes: The most famous quotes by William Adams
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide. — William Adams
Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be. — William Adams
My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it. — William Adams
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official — not to say arbitrary — in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity. — William Adams
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me. — William Adams
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day. — William Adams
You can have anything you want–if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. — William Adams
Faith is a continuation of reason. — William Adams
Best Jane Addams Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jane Addams
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. — Jane Addams
Best Joseph Addison Quotes: The most famous quotes by Joseph Addison
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. — Joseph Addison
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage. — Joseph Addison
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. — Joseph Addison
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. — Joseph Addison
When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations. — Joseph Addison
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. — Joseph Addison
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. — Joseph Addison
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. — Joseph Addison
There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty. — Joseph Addison
One’s religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success. — Joseph Addison
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. — Joseph Addison
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes. — Joseph Addison
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. — Joseph Addison
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. — Joseph Addison
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. — Joseph Addison
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. — Joseph Addison
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves. — Joseph Addison
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. — Joseph Addison
‘We are always doing’, says he, ‘something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us. — Joseph Addison
What pity is it that we can die but once to serve our country — Joseph Addison
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief. — Joseph Addison
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. — Joseph Addison
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. — Joseph Addison
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. — Joseph Addison
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. — Joseph Addison
If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling. — Joseph Addison
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. — Joseph Addison
True happiness… arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self. — Joseph Addison
Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. — Joseph Addison
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. — Joseph Addison
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. — Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. — Joseph Addison
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. — Joseph Addison
How beautiful is death, when earn’d by virtue Who would not be that youth What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country — Joseph Addison
True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. — Joseph Addison
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. — Joseph Addison
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. — Joseph Addison
Best George Ade Quotes: The most famous quotes by George Ade
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. — George Ade
Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry. — George Ade
‘Whom are you’ he asked, for he had attended business college. — George Ade
Best Sybil Adelman Quotes: The most famous quotes by Sybil Adelman
Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here What was it about Was it her smile Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart That’s an age-old question. It’s perfect food for thought on a bright midsummer’s night. — Sybil Adelman
Think about a woman. Doesn’t know you’re thinking about her. Doesn’t care you’re thinking about her. Makes you think about her even more. — Sybil Adelman
Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out. — Sybil Adelman
Ok. Sex is fine. Sex is good. Sex is GREAT Okay, okay, we need men for sex… Do we need so many — Sybil Adelman
In Kyudo philosophy, you don’t aim–you become one with the target. Then, in fact, there’s nothing to aim at. I find it works well with women, too. Give it a try. — Sybil Adelman
I thought I loved him, but I really just needed him. There was so much death and when I was in bed with him, I wasn’t thinking about death…Look, what I’m trying to say is that we can’t know what’s in another person’s heart, we can’t even know what’s in our own. Life turns on a dime, and somehow we muddle through. — Sybil Adelman
Best Konrad Adenauer Quotes: The most famous quotes by Konrad Adenauer
Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat. — Konrad Adenauer
Best Alfred Adler Quotes: The most famous quotes by Alfred Adler
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. — Alfred Adler
If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up somewhere else. — Alfred Adler
There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow. — Alfred Adler
The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment … both of individuals and of humanity. — Alfred Adler
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even murder with the truth. — Alfred Adler
Best Felix Adler Quotes: The most famous quotes by Felix Adler
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear. — Felix Adler
The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered. — Felix Adler
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit. — Felix Adler
Best Morris Adler Quotes: The most famous quotes by Morris Adler
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. — Morris Adler
Best Mortimer Adler Quotes: The most famous quotes by Mortimer Adler
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think. — Mortimer Adler
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. — Mortimer Adler
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. — Mortimer Adler
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. — Mortimer Adler
Best Richard P. Adler Quotes: The most famous quotes by Richard P. Adler
All television is children’s television. — Richard P. Adler
Best Stella Adler Quotes: The most famous quotes by Stella Adler
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. — Stella Adler
Best Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno Quotes: The most famous quotes by Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public. — Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. — Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. — Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 1-foot chain. — Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Let us talk sense to the American people. Let us tell them the truth, that there are not gains without pains. — Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Best Aeschylus Quotes: The most famous quotes by Aeschylus
‘Honour thy father and thy mother’ stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness. — Aeschylus
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old. — Aeschylus
Sweet is a grief well ended. — Aeschylus
There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain. — Aeschylus
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil. — Aeschylus
Words are the physicians of the mind diseased. — Aeschylus
Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. — Aeschylus
The wisest of the wise may err. — Aeschylus
Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend’s success without envy. — Aeschylus
Exiles feed on hope. — Aeschylus
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. — Aeschylus
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder. — Aeschylus
For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying. — Aeschylus
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden. — Aeschylus
The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it. — Aeschylus
When a man’s willing and eager, the gods join in. — Aeschylus
Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart. — Aeschylus
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. — Aeschylus
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. — Aeschylus
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. — Aeschylus
Time as he grows old teaches all things. — Aeschylus
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. — Aeschylus
In war, truth is the first casualty. — Aeschylus
For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends. — Aeschylus
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another’s might. — Aeschylus
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. — Aeschylus
Only when man’s life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy. — Aeschylus
His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best. — Aeschylus
Best Aesop Quotes: The most famous quotes by Aesop
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. — Aesop
The gods help them that help themselves. — Aesop
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. — Aesop
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. — Aesop
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin. — Aesop
Little friends may prove great friends. — Aesop
There is always someone worse off than yourself. — Aesop
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. — Aesop
United we stand, divided we fall. — Aesop
Appearances often are deceiving. — Aesop
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. — Aesop
Only cowards insult dying majesty. — Aesop
Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in. — Aesop
Familiarity breed contempt. — Aesop
Faithful are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. — Aesop
Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth — don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. — Aesop
Any excuse will serve a tyrant. — Aesop
Plodding wins the race. — Aesop
It is easy to despise what you cannot get. — Aesop
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him. — Aesop
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. — Aesop
We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. — Aesop
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. — Aesop
Men often applaud an imitation, and hiss the real thing. — Aesop
You may share the labours of the great, but you may not share the spoil. — Aesop
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. — Aesop
Please all, and you will please none. — Aesop
Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. — Aesop
Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything. — Aesop
Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear. — Aesop
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth. — Aesop
A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. — Aesop
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. — Aesop
It is easier to get into the enemy’s toils than out again. — Aesop
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters. — Aesop
In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest. — Aesop
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. — Aesop
Persuasion is often more effectual than force. — Aesop
Put your shoulder to the wheel. — Aesop
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. — Aesop
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. — Aesop
What a splendid head, yet no brain. — Aesop
People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. — Aesop
Union gives strength. — Aesop
It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. — Aesop
The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. — Aesop
I am sure the grapes are sour. — Aesop
Slow and steady wins the race. — Aesop
I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath. — Aesop
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. — Aesop
While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy’s toils than out again. — Aesop
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find – nothing. — Aesop
Best Afranius Quotes: The most famous quotes by Afranius
The wise man will love all others will desire. — Afranius
Best Herbert Agar Quotes: The most famous quotes by Herbert Agar
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. — Herbert Agar
Best Andre Agassi Quotes: The most famous quotes by Andre Agassi
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose. — Andre Agassi
Best Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
I cannot afford to waste my time making money. — Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
Best Elaine Agather Quotes: The most famous quotes by Elaine Agather
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. — Elaine Agather
Attitude is more important than reality. — Elaine Agather
Best Agathon Quotes: The most famous quotes by Agathon
Even God cannot change the past. — Agathon
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past. — Agathon
Best Child Age 13 Quotes: The most famous quotes by Child Age 13
I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween. — Child Age 13
I’ve learned that if you want to cheer yourself up, you should try cheering someone else up. — Child Age 13
What I’ve learned. . . . I’ve learned that just when I get my room the way I like it, Mom makes me clean it up. — Child Age 13
Best Child Age 15 Quotes: The most famous quotes by Child Age 15
I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don’t have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life — Child Age 15
I’ve learned that although it’s hard to admit it, I’m secretly glad my parents are strict. — Child Age 15
Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle A truck — Child Age 15
The people who think Tiny Tim is strange are the same ones who think it odd that I drive without pants. — Child Age 15
Best Child Age 6 Quotes: The most famous quotes by Child Age 6
Home is where the house is. — Child Age 6
Best Child Age 7 Quotes: The most famous quotes by Child Age 7
As you make your way through this hectic world of ours, set aside a few minutes each day. At the end of the year, you’ll have a couple of days saved up. — Child Age 7
I’ve learned that you can’t hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk. — Child Age 7
I’ve learned that I like my teacher because she cries when we sing Silent Night. — Child Age 7
Best Child Age 9 Quotes: The most famous quotes by Child Age 9
I’ve learned that when I wave to people in the country, they stop what they are doing and wave back. — Child Age 9
Best James Agee Quotes: The most famous quotes by James Agee
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. — James Agee
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. — James Agee
A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children. — James Agee
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God. — James Agee
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