Best Brian Aldiss Quotes: The most famous quotes by Brian Aldiss
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. — Brian Aldiss
Best Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes: The most famous quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Best Archibald Alexander Quotes: The most famous quotes by Archibald Alexander
Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it. — Archibald Alexander
Best Lamar Alexander Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lamar Alexander
I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now. — Lamar Alexander
Best Lloyd Alexander Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lloyd Alexander
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. — Lloyd Alexander
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. — Lloyd Alexander
Best Russell G. Alexander Quotes: The most famous quotes by Russell G. Alexander
Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions. — Russell G. Alexander
Best Shana Alexander Quotes: The most famous quotes by Shana Alexander
A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you’ve been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice. — Shana Alexander
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. — Shana Alexander
We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. — Shana Alexander
Best Rodan of Alexandria Quotes: The most famous quotes by Rodan of Alexandria
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers. — Rodan of Alexandria
Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined. — Rodan of Alexandria
Best Conte Vittorio Alfieri Quotes: The most famous quotes by Conte Vittorio Alfieri
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. — Conte Vittorio Alfieri
What we plan we build. — Conte Vittorio Alfieri
Best Nelson Algren Quotes: The most famous quotes by Nelson Algren
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom’s. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own. — Nelson Algren
Best Muhammad Ali Quotes: The most famous quotes by Muhammad Ali
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. — Muhammad Ali
The man who has no imagination has no wings. — Muhammad Ali
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. — Muhammad Ali
Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. — Muhammad Ali
The fight is won or lost far away from witnessesbehind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights. — Muhammad Ali
It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am. — Muhammad Ali
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. — Muhammad Ali
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. — Muhammad Ali
It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up. — Muhammad Ali
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. — Muhammad Ali
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. — Muhammad Ali
Me, we. (Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.) — Muhammad Ali
Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer. — Muhammad Ali
There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people. — Muhammad Ali
My toughest fight was with my first wife. — Muhammad Ali
Best Dante Alighieri Quotes: The most famous quotes by Dante Alighieri
Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire. — Dante Alighieri
Through me you pass into the city of woeThrough me you pass into eternal painThrough me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric movedTo rear me was the task of power divine,Supremest wisdom, and primeval love.Before me things create were none, save thingsEternal, and eternal I shall endure.All hope abandon, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act — Dante Alighieri
There’s not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault. — Dante Alighieri
All hope abandon, ye who enter here — Dante Alighieri
A great flame follows a little spark. — Dante Alighieri
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence. — Dante Alighieri
The experience of this sweet life. L’esperienza de questa dolce vita. — Dante Alighieri
He listens well who takes notes. — Dante Alighieri
There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. — Dante Alighieri
Consider your origin you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. — Dante Alighieri
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. — Dante Alighieri
O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall. — Dante Alighieri
Best Saul David Alinsky Quotes: The most famous quotes by Saul David Alinsky
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life. — Saul David Alinsky
When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters – one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. — Saul David Alinsky
Best Charles L. Allen Quotes: The most famous quotes by Charles L. Allen
Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it. — Charles L. Allen
Best Dick Allen Quotes: The most famous quotes by Dick Allen
If a cow can’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it. — Dick Allen
Best Fred Allen Quotes: The most famous quotes by Fred Allen
California is a fine place to live–if you happen to be an orange. — Fred Allen
The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover’s Lane holding his own hand. — Fred Allen
If the grass is greener in the other fellow’s yard – let him worry about cutting it. — Fred Allen
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there. — Fred Allen
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. — Fred Allen
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer’s heart. — Fred Allen
Imitation is the sincerest form of television. — Fred Allen
I can’t understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. — Fred Allen
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns he should be drawn and quoted. — Fred Allen
Committee–a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. — Fred Allen
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. — Fred Allen
What’s on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement — Fred Allen
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. — Fred Allen
Television is a new medium. It’s called a medium because nothing is well-done. — Fred Allen
Television is the triumph of machine over people. — Fred Allen
Best George Herbert Allen Quotes: The most famous quotes by George Herbert Allen
Man is what he believes. — George Herbert Allen
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. — George Herbert Allen
Best George Mathew Allen Quotes: The most famous quotes by George Mathew Allen
Have a variety of interests … These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest. — George Mathew Allen
Best Gracie Allen Quotes: The most famous quotes by Gracie Allen
When I was born I was so surprised I didn’t talk for a year and a half. — Gracie Allen
Best Henry Allen Quotes: The most famous quotes by Henry Allen
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. — Henry Allen
Best James Allen Quotes: The most famous quotes by James Allen
Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results. — James Allen
You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. — James Allen
The outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs. — James Allen
We do not attract what we want, But what we are. — James Allen
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. — James Allen
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. — James Allen
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. — James Allen
Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him. — James Allen
Best James Lane Allen Quotes: The most famous quotes by James Lane Allen
You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. — James Lane Allen
Best Roger Allen Quotes: The most famous quotes by Roger Allen
In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. — Roger Allen
Best William R Allen Quotes: The most famous quotes by William R Allen
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs. — William R Allen
Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality. — William R Allen
Best Woody Allen Quotes: The most famous quotes by Woody Allen
It is no secret that organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one considers that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies. — Woody Allen
Eighty percent of success is showing up. — Woody Allen
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought – particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things. — Woody Allen
I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers. — Woody Allen
If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative. — Woody Allen
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. — Woody Allen
Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. — Woody Allen
It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune. — Woody Allen
Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind. — Woody Allen
When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. — Woody Allen
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work… I want to achieve it through not dying. — Woody Allen
Should I marry W. Not if she won’t tell me the other letters in her name. — Woody Allen
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. — Woody Allen
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. — Woody Allen
I am at two with nature. — Woody Allen
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. — Woody Allen
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick — not wounded — dead. — Woody Allen
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, and receives new truth as an angel from Heaven. — Woody Allen
It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens. — Woody Allen
I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. — Woody Allen
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. — Woody Allen
The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion. — Woody Allen
At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time. — Woody Allen
Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats. — Woody Allen
Thought Why does man kill He kills for food. And not only food frequently there must be a beverage. — Woody Allen
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. — Woody Allen
Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered — Woody Allen
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. — Woody Allen
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. — Woody Allen
I tended to place my wife under a pedestal. — Woody Allen
How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter — Woody Allen
How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size — Woody Allen
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. — Woody Allen
As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree’ — probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. — Woody Allen
I can’t listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. — Woody Allen
I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. — Woody Allen
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. — Woody Allen
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off. — Woody Allen
If only God would give me some clear sign Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. — Woody Allen
If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. — Woody Allen
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better… while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. — Woody Allen
The government is unresponsive to the needs of the little man. Under 5’7, it is impossible to get your congressman on the phone. — Woody Allen
Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. — Woody Allen
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. — Woody Allen
Most of the time I don’t have much fun. The rest of the time I don’t have any fun at all. — Woody Allen
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon. — Woody Allen
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness. — Woody Allen
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. — Woody Allen
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman — Woody Allen
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep. — Woody Allen
To you I’m an atheist to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition. — Woody Allen
When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room. — Woody Allen
What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream Or what’s worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists — Woody Allen
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. — Woody Allen
Best Margery Allingham Quotes: The most famous quotes by Margery Allingham
When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us. — Margery Allingham
Best W. Allingham Quotes: The most famous quotes by W. Allingham
Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it but if often costs the world very dear. — W. Allingham
Best Dorothy Allison Quotes: The most famous quotes by Dorothy Allison
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open. — Dorothy Allison
Best Gordon William Allport Quotes: The most famous quotes by Gordon William Allport
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. — Gordon William Allport
Love recieved and love given comprise the best form of therapy. — Gordon William Allport
Best Gloria Allred Quotes: The most famous quotes by Gloria Allred
The more I know about men the more I like dogs. — Gloria Allred
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