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With just enough of learning to misquote
– Lord Byron; English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 66.

 A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
– Oscar Wilde

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
– Oscar Wilde

A great many people think they are thinking
when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
– William James

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man,
but he is brave five minutes longer.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

A home without books is a body without soul.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech
when words become superfluous.
– Ingrid Bergman

A liar needs a good memory.
– Marcus Fabius Quintalianus

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
– George Bernard Shaw

A man cannot reason with the woman he loves: he cares about her too much.
– Anonymous

A man falls in love through his eyes,
a woman through her ears.
– Woodrow Wyatt

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
– Oscar Wilde

A mighty pain to love it is, and ’tis a pain that pain to miss;
but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.
– Anonymous

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are
– Gore Vidal.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
– Edmond de Concourt

A real man isn’t a player. Little boys play games.
A real man works for what he wants then appreciates it once he finally gets it!

A rich man is not the one who has the most but the one who needs the least.

A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
– Stalin

A winner listens, a looser just waits until it is their turn to talk.

A woman either loves or hates; she knows no medium.
– Anonymous

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
– François de la Rochefoucauld

According to my calculations,
the problem doesn’t exist.

Ageing isn’t that bad if you consider the alternatives.
– Maurice Chevalier

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
– Walt Disney

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
– Oscar Wilde

All the darkness in the world could not put out the light of one small candle.
– Found on a Jewish Holocaust victims headstone

All models are wrong, some models are useful.
– Edward Deming

Als liefde blind is, hoe gaat ze mij dan vinden?
– G. v. d. Berghe

Always remember you’re unique,
just like everyone else.

An anthropologist once asked a Hopi why so many of his people’s songs were about rain. The Hopi replied that it was because water is so scarce. Is that why so many of our songs are about love?

An economist will forcefully express the view that the only meaningful goal of the rational business executive is the maximization of his own profits. But, even that is not going to ring true to anyone who has ever experienced a situation where he had to put his son-in-law in a business.
– John D. French, “A lawyer’s response,” Antitrust Law Journal; Volume 52, Issue 3, September 1983, p. 647.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right and wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
– Oscar Wilde

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. So why the fcuk did we go to soohcl?

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination.
When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
– Oscar Wilde

Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you’ll get ten different answers, but there’s one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won’t just take us. It’ll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu and Einstein and Morobuto and Buddy Holly and Aristophenes .. and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars.
– Babylon 5

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference

Beauty is an experience, nothing else.
It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features.
It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.
What ails us is that our sense of beauty is so bruised and blunted,
we miss all the best.
– D. H. Lawrence

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
– Charles Reade

Beauty unaware of itself is the most beautiful.

Because I have loved life,
I shall have no sorrow to die.
– Amelia Burr

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage.
– Lao Tzu

Believe me, every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not;
and of times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.Men should be more careful.
– Oscar Wilde

C’est le ton qui fait la musique.

Chance favours the prepared mind.
– Louis Pasteur

Change is valuable, because it lets oppressed be tyrants.

China? There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep. For when he wakes he will move the world.
– Napoleon

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
– Confucius

Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
– Joseph Joubert

Churchill was overly optimistic to say that “You can always rely on America to do the right thing, once it has exhausted the alternatives.”
Is not America the country of endless opportunities and possibilities?
– Claus Brillowski; The Economist: Letters to the editor, July 27th 2002

Collecting is a passion so violent that it is inferior to love or ambition only in the pettiness of its aims.

Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
– Samuel Lover

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
– Mark Twain

Critize a friend in private, praise him in public.
– Leonardo da Vinci

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
– Oscar Wilde

Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don’t.
– Lord Raglan

Dance like nobody’s watching and love like its never going to hurt.

De mannelijke ijdelheid is zo groot,
dat zij slechts nog door de vrouwelijke overtroffen wordt.
– Otto Weiss

De mens vecht en verliest de strijd,
en dat waarvoor hij vocht, komt toch, ondanks zijn nederlaag,
en dan blijkt het niet te zijn wat hij bedoelde,
zodat anderen moeten vechten voor wat zij bedoelden,
onder een andere naam.
– William Morris

Democracy is the worst of all types of government invented by mankind,
with the possible exception of all the other types of government.
– Winston Churchill

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation
– Oscar Wilde

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
– Mark Twain

Don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
– Patton

Don’t talk, just act.
Don’t say, just show.
Don’t promise, just prove.

Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness
– Oscar Wilde

Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be — because you only have one life and one chance to do all the things that you want to do.
– Britta Fiksdal

Each time one loves is the only time one has ever loved.
Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion.
It merely intensifies it.
– Oscar Wilde

Economic analysis cherishes the illusion that one good reason should be enough.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
– Oscar Wilde

Education is the progressive realization of one’s own ignorance.

Er zijn maar twee soorten economen:
zij die het niet weten
en zij die weten dat ze het niet weten
– John Kenneth Galbraith

Er zijn twee soorten mensen die nooit genoeg hebben.
Zij die dorsten naar kennis en zij die hebzuchtig zijn naar rijkdom
– Arabisch spreekwoord

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
– Kahlil Gibran

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography
– Oscar Wilde

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
– Mark Twain

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
– Leo Tolstoy

Everything has its beauty
but not everyone sees it.
– Confucius

Everything that irritates us about others
can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
– Carl Jung

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
– Vernon Law, baseball pitcher

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake
when you make it again.
– F. P. Jones

Experience is the best teacher,
and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers.
But you learn; my God do you learn.
– C. S. Lewis

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
– Jim Morrison

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
– Aldous Huxley

Falling in love is awfully simple,
but falling out of love is simply awful.
– Anonymous

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
– Oscar Wilde

Few women admit their age,
few men act it.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
– Ivan Panin

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
– Arabian Proverb

Freedom is achieved only when man cares no longer about the impression he is making or about to make.
– Bruce Lee

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.
– Charles Caleb Colton

Geen enkel aanvalsplan overleeft het eerste contact met de vijand
– Moltke, Duits strateeg en veldmaarschalk (1800-1891)

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
– Henry David Thoreau

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp,
but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
– Salvador Dali

Having a secret crush that you’ve never told is painful,
but to have that secret turn into “What Might Have Been” is a life long torture.
– Jonathan Greenberg

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.
– Giacomo Leopardi

Hell has no fury like a woman scorned

Het gras zal altijd groener zijn, aan de andere kant van de heuvels.
– Lennaert Nijgh

Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time — a tremendous whack.
– Winston Churchill

Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto
– Terentius

Hope, sometimes that’s all that love is.

I always knew I’d look back at times I cried with you and laugh but I never thought I’d look back at times I laughed with you and cry.

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more I seem to have of it.
– Thomas Jefferson

I’m not supposed to love you, I’m not supposed to care, I’m not supposed to live my life wishing you were there. I’m not supposed to wonder where you are or what you do…I’m sorry I can’t help myself, I’m in love with you.
– Anonymous

I didn’t fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

I find television very educating.
Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
– Groucho Marx

I have a dream… that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
– Martin Luther King Jr., address at the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963

I have learned not to worry about love;
but to honor its coming with all my heart.
– Alice Walker

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
– Xenocrates of Chalcedon

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
– Oscar Wilde

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
– Albert Einstein

I love you not only for what you are,
but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself,
but for what you are making of me.
I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
– Anonymous

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
A small bird will drop frozen dead
From a bough without ever having
Felt sorry for itself
– D.H. Lawrence

I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
– Oscar Wilde

I tried to forget you, but the harder I tried, the more I thought about you
– Anne Frank

I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
– Bernard Berenson

I wish I was a kid again, skinned knees are easier to heal than broken hearts.
– Anonymous

If a man has no enemies, he has no character.
– Frank Sinatra

If a man loves the labour of his trade,
apart from any question of success or fame,
the gods have called him.
– Robert Louis Stevenson

If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
– W. H Auden

If I look confused it’s because I’m thinking.
– Samuel Goldwyn

If music be the food of love, play on …
– William Shakespeare

If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
– Thich Nhat Hahn

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed.
– Einstein

If you are killing time, it’s not murder. It’s suicide.
– Lou Holte

If you can put into words why you love a person,
then you do not love that person enough.

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

If you love someone set them free.
– Sting

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid a hundred days of sorrow.
– Tibetan proverb

If you think that any human system of justice is infallible, then you are ignorant. If you think that no person has been falsely condemned to death, then you are naive. If you think that even one innocent person, ripped from heir life and their passion and to put to death at the hands of the state is in any way justifiable, then you are evil.
– Joshua W. H. Steiner

If you wish to live, you must first attend your own funeral.
– Anonymous

Imagination is more important than knowledge,
for knowledge is limited,
while imagination embraces the entire world
– Albert Einstein

In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
– Andre Maurois

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything,
and two minus one equals nothing.
– Mignon McLaughlin

In the end we will not remember the insults of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
– Martin Luther King Jr

Integrity is not how you act when others are looking, but how you act when no one is around.

It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return. But what is more painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let that person know how you feel.
– An Vo

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
– Winston Churchill

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

It is best to love wisely, no doubt;
but to love foolishly is better than
not to be able to love at all.
– William Thackeray

It is better to be deceived by a friend, than to suspect him.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
– H. L. Mencken

It is impossible to love and be wise.
– Francis Bacon

It is impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside.

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
– Theodore Roosevelt

It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes
– Oscar Wilde

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is necessary for us to learn from others’ mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.
– Adm. Hyman G. Rickover

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition.
My discovery was the result of musical perception.
– Albert Einstein (When asked about his theory of relativity)

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

It’s better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.
– Alfred Tennyson

It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
– Attributed to Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
– Vince Lambardi

It’s paradoxical that the idea of living long appeals to everyone but no one wants to get old.
– Andy Rooney

Judge someone not by their mistakes but rather how they react to them.
– Bradly Wilkins

Just as eating against one’s will is injurious to health,
so study without a liking for it spoils the memory,
and it retains nothing it takes in.
– Leonardo da Vinci

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
– Mark Twain

La nostalgie n’est plus ce qu’elle était.
– Simone Signoret

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering,
and it’s all over much too soon.
– Woody Allen

Life is too important to take seriously.
– Corky Siegel

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
– Soren Kierkegaard

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans
– John Lennon

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
– Anais Nin

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
– Lord Dunsany

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken.
If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal.
Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements.
Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket–safe, dark, motionless, airless–it will change.
It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
To love is to be vulnerable.
– C.S. Lewis

Love creates an “us” without destroying a “me.”
– Anonymous

Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand:
The more you are in it, the deeper you sink.
And when it hits you, you’ve just got to fall.
– UB40

Love is blind only to the eyes.
The heart sees everything clearly.
– Anonymous

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
– Joan Crawford

Love is a verb, not a noun.
– Anonymous

Love is everything it’s cracked up to be.
That’s why people are so cynical about it.
It really is worth fighting for,
being brave for,
risking everything for.
And the trouble is,
if you don’t risk anything,
you risk even more.
– Erica Jong

Love is life’s energy

Love is like an hourglass
With the heart filling up
As the brain empties
– Jules Renard

Love is merely madness…
– William Shakespeare

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
– Robert Heinlein

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee,
to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.
Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
– Erich Fromm

Love that is not madness is not love.
– Pedro Calderon

Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement.
To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.
– Leo Buscaglia

Love works in miracles every day:
such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak;
making fools of the wise,
and wise men of fools;
favouring the passions,
destroying reason,
and in a word,
turning everything topsy-turvy
– Marguerite De Valois

Luck is a skill.
– Adel Ebraheem

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
– E. Letterman

Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is to you.
– Emerson

Making the decision to have a child–it’s momentous.
It is to decide to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
– Elizabeth Stone

Many things will catch your eye, but few with catch your heart. Pursue these.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.
They are sent into the world with bills of credit,
and seldom withdraw to their full extent.

Men verwijt mij dat ik teveel aan vrouwen denk.
Wat is er verder nog om aan te denken?
– Auguste Rodin

Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.
– Chaim Weizmann

Mom, romance is dead. It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
– Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons – Television Cartoon Show)

Most of us are pawns in a game of love we don’t understand.
– Leo Buscaglia

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but want a different one.

My goal is simple: the complete understanding of the Universe.
– Steven Hawkings

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest…no country in the world today show any but patronizing regard for the weak. Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism. True democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village.
– Gandhi

Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams.
– Mary Ellen Kelly

Never act out of fear, and never let fear stop you from acting.

Never apologize for showing feeling.
When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
– Benjamin Disraeli

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
– Henry Ward Beecher

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence.
It may be that you will not meet again in this life.
– Anonymous

No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine own were. Any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.
– John Donne

No matter how hard the past, one can always begin again today.
– Buddha

Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.
– C. Lacey

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
– Oscar Wilde

Now are thoughts thou shalt not banish –
Now are visions ne’er to vanish –
From thy spirits shall they pass
No more – like dew-drops from the grass
– Edgar Allen Poe, Spirits of the Dead

Now we are all sons of bitches.
– Kenneth Bainbridge, physicist, on the occasion of the Trinity atomic bomb test (7/16/45)

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
– Oscar Wilde

Obviousness is always the enemy of correctness.
– Bertrand Russel, Mathematics and Metaphysicians.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps
the most fatal to true happiness.
– Bertrand Russell

One forgives to the degree that one loves.
– François de la Rochefoucauld

One of the hardest things to do in life is telling the girl that you love that you like her.
– Arturo Novoa

One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life:
That word is love.
– Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

Only in the struggles of love
true passion can be discovered

Only show a select few your inner self and remember that they are doing the same, so cherish those whom you have really met.

Only when the last tree has been felled, the last river poisoned and the last fish caught, man will know, that he cannot eat money.”
– Old indian chief somewhere in the U.S.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall
– Confucius

Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk.
It must be a thing of action and sincerity.
– I John 3:18

Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions.
– Science, Volume 217, 9 July 1982, p. 106.

Parting is all we need to know of hell.
– Emily Dickinson

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
– Soren Kierkegaard

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau

Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules.
Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world
– Shelley

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
– Voltaire (1694-1778)

Profanity is a feeble mind trying to express itself forcefully.
– Thomas Andy Dale

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
– H. L. Mencken

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour,
sit next to a pretty woman for an hour and it seems like a minute.
That’s relativity.
– Albert Einstein

Quod ratio non quit saepe sanavit mora
Time often heals what reason cannot

Respect is neither an obligation nor an entitlement; politeness is both.
– J. Steven Jeffries, “Ruminations for Ruminants”

Sanity is only the madness preferred by the majority.
– Kevin Blonske

Saying “I Love You” is like a warm fuzzy, it feels good for only a short while.
When you tell someone you love them by doing something for them,
the message will mean much more and last longer.
– Anonymous

Self-pity is the ultimate luxury.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow
– Oscar Wilde.

Smile; it the second best thing one can do with one’s lips.
– Anonymous

Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. Then, for the second time in history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Some pray to marry the man they love,
my prayer will somewhat vary:
I humbly pray to Heaven above
that I love the man I marry.
– Rose Stokes

Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up.

Sometimes the deepest scars are the ones that you can’t see.
– Rowan Meade, filmmaker

Sometimes the hardest thing to let go of is the thing you never really had.

Success is 99 percent failure.
– Soichiro Honda

Take a mental walk through the cancer wards, the children hospitals, the insane asylums, and the homeless ghettos, and then re-ask yourself what is bothering you.

Take away love, and our earth is a tomb.
– Robert Browning

Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
– Oscar Wilde

Tell me whom you love, and I’ll tell you who you are.
– Creole Proverb

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
– Voltaire (1694-1778)

The average man thinks he isn’t.

The best portion of a good man’s life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and of love.
– William Wordsworth

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance the idea that anything is possible.
– Ray Bradbury

The closest we ever come to perfection is on our resume.

The courses of true love never did run smooth.
– William Shakespeare

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
– Oscar Wilde

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

The grand essentials in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
– Addison

The greatest battles aren’t fought on the battlefield, they are fought in your mind:
Conquer your mind, conquer the world.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
– William James

The greatest pain that comes from love is loving someone you can never have.
– Anonymous

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re still alive.
– O. A. Battista

The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.
– Jacques Benigne Bossuel

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality
– Dante

The large print giveth, the small print taketh away.
– Penn of Penn & Teller

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.
– Benjamin Disraeli

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
– Rebecca West

The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men.

The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
– Atrributed to Frank Zappa or Taffee Marchant

The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is,
the more unbearable does life seem without it.
It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied,
we are partly dead…
– John Boorman

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.
– Arthur Koestler

The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss.
– Anonymous

The most important thing in conversation is hearing what isn’t being said.
– R. Lanz

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness
which becomes at times almost insupportable.
– Victor Hugo

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman’s heart.
– Josiah G. Holland

The nice thing about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being proven right or pleasantly surprised.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
– John Stuart Mill: “On Liberty”

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
– Edmund Burke

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
– Oscar Wilde

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The opposite sex is the most addictive drug but the high is unlike anything else.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds;
and the pessimist fears this is true.
– Irving Caesar

The path of excess leads to the palace of wisdom
– William Blake

The price of greatness is responsibility
– Winston Churchill

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you,
but in what he cannot reveal to you.
Therefore, if you would understand him,
listen not to what he says
but rather what he does not say.
– Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), Sand and Foam

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
– George Bernard Shaw

The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. Never failure but low aim, is life greatest tragedy.
– Benjamin E. Mayes

The truth always hurts when it comes from the one you love most,
especially when the truth is “I don’t love you.”
– Sierra Mallett

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
– Martin Luther King Jr.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is,
at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
– Charles Darwin

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
– Oscar Wilde

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.
– Samuel Huntington

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in a single, solitary, even humble individual. For it is within the soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
– Henry Thoreau

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
– Bertrand Russel

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
– Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

There are no little events with the heart. It magnifies everything;
it places in the same scales the fall of an empire of fourteen years
and the dropping of a woman’s glove, and almost always the glove
weighs more than the empire.
– Honore de Balzac

There are two classes of people.
Those who divide people into two classes, and those who don’t.
I belong to the second class.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
– Oscar Wilde.

There’s a difference between beauty and charm.
A beautiful woman is one I notice.
A charming woman is one who notices me.
– John Erskine

There is always an easy solution to every human problem,
neat, plausible and wrong
– H. L. Mencken

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you.
Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.
– Millicent Carey McIntosh

There is no instinct like that of the heart.
– Lord Byron

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man.
True nobility is being superior to your formal self.
– Thom Yorke of Radiohead

There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

There’s no proof that human life has a serious purpose.

There is nothing wrong with today’s teenager that 20 years won’t cure.

There’s two possible outcomes:
If the result confirms the hypothesis, then you’ve made a measurement.
If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you’ve made a discovery.
– Fermi

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
– Oscar Wilde

They may forget what you said,
but they will never forget how
you made them feel.
– Carl W. Buechner

Think about how hard it is to change yourself and then you’ll realize what little chance you have of changing others.

Those that live life without folly are not as wise as they think they are.
– from a drawing dated 1804

Those who restrain desire, do so because
theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
– William Blake

Time is just nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.

Time is a great master, unfortunately it kills all its apprentices.
– Hector Berlioz

Time you enjoy wasting is never wasted
– John Lennon

To die for love…what could be more glorious?
– Anonymous

To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup,
whenever you’re wrong, admit it;
whenever you’re right, shut up.
– Ogden Nash

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
– William MacNeile Dixon

To love another person is to see the face of God.
– Victor Hugo, “Les Miserables” (Broadway Version)

To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To hope is to risk pain.
To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken,
because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

To test a man’s character, give him power.
– Abraham Lincoln

To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
– Mahatma Gandhi

To travel is to live
– Hans Christian Andersen

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill.
To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence.
– Sun Tzu, The Art of War

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say,
and to finish without knowing what you have written.
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
– John F. Kennedy

True beauty is seen without the eyes.
– Joe Fields

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself.
It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations:
it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
– Honore de Balzac

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
– Voltaire

True love is knowing a person’s faults,
and loving them even more for them.
– Mandy Hampton

True love is like a ghost; everyone talks of it, few have seen it.
– La Rochefoucauld

Trouble is part of your life — if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
– Anonymous

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
– Mark Twain

Two stonecutters were asked what they were doing.
The first said, “I’m cutting this damned stone into blocks.”
The second replied, “I’m on a team that’s building a cathedral.”

Two things you should never say to the one you love:
“I love you, but…” and “If you loved me, you would…”
Should you really qualify love with conditions?
– Anonymous.

Unspoken love is like a poison. If kept to yourself for too long, it will consume you from the inside.

Valentines Day is a masochistic holiday. If you’re in a relationship, then this is the one day you’re supposed to say ‘I love you’, and send gifts to ensure that it means more than the other 364 days of the year; and if you’re single, you feel miserable.
– Anonymous

Vergaderen is de straf die God gesteld heeft op carriere maken.
– Hans van Straten

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent
– Isaac Asimov, Foundation

Vir audax vir beatus est

Voordeel van verstand is dat men zich dom kan houden.
Het omgekeerde is iets moeilijker.
– Kurt Tucholsky

Was it love, or was it the thought of being in love?
– Pink Floyd, One

Was sich liebt, das neckt sich.

We always believe our first love is our last,
and our last love our first.
– George Whyte-Melville

We are Microsoft. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love.
It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
– Somerset Maugham

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
– Anais Nin

We first grasp the black paradox at the heart of the human condition [when we realize] that the satisfaction of the desire is also the death of the desire.
– John Fowles, afterward to Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier

We must in tears
Unwind a love knit up in many years
In this last kiss I here surrender thee
Back to thyself. Lo thou again art free
– Henry King

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
– Martin Luther King, Jr. Speech in St. Louis (3/22/64)

Well, if you’ve got a-one-in-a-million girl don’t let her get away;
‘cause the next one-in-a-million girl is a million girls away…
– Liz Phair

What counts in making a happy relationship is not so much how compatible you are,
but how you deal with incompatibility.
– Daniel Goleman

What do women want? To be treated like a queen;
but by a king, not a pawn.
– James Robison

What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you start?
– C. Lacey

What is better: a lie that draws a smile,
or a truth that draws a tear?

What we see is mainly what we look for.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
– Henry Ward Beecher

What then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal’s deed, however calculated it may be, can be compared? For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal, who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him, and who from that moment onward had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
– Albert Camus

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
– Helen Keller

What we say is important…
for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
– Jim Beggs

When the human body encounters disease it raises its temperature making it uncomfortable not only for the body but also for the disease. So it global warming the Earth’s way of saying we are not wanted?
– Charlie Kenna

When you really love someone,
you should also try to love the ones that make them happy.

Where one door shuts, another opens.
– Spanish Proverb

Who knows how long I’ve loved you,
you know I love you still.
Will I wait a lonely lifetime?
If you want me to I will.
– The Beatles – I will

Women are never disarmed by compliments.
Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes
– Oscar Wilde

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
(Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.)

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
(When cryptography is outlawed only outlaws will have privacy.)

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it… always.
– Mahatma Gandhi

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
– Winston Churchill

When I was a young man,
I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman.
Well, I found her.
But, alas, she was waiting for the ideal man.
– Robert Schuman

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
– Eric Hoffer

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
– Abraham Maslow

When the ship lifts, all bills are paid. No regrets.
– Lazarus Long

When we love, we admire with the heart.
– Anonymous

Whenever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.
– Heinrich Heine

Where there is love, there is pain.
– Spanish Proverb

Wie zonder zonde is, werpe de eerste steen.
– Mattheus 26:41; Johannes 8:7

Win as if you’re used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
– Golnik Eric

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
– Keshavan Nair

Wise men talk because they have something to say;
fools, because they have to say something.
– Plato

Women are meant to be loved, not understood.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
– Anonymous

Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams-
that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit.
Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of anxiety.
For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst,
all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.
– Edgar Allan Poe

Yield to Temptation… it may not pass your way again.
– Lazarus Long, “Time Enough for Love”

You can’t reason with your heart; it has its own laws,
and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
– Mark Twain

You don’t marry someone you can live with,
but marry the one you can’t live without.

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you’ve lost a friend.

‘You’ll get over it.’ It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don’t get over it because ‘it’ is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The articluarness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not stopped by anyone but death. The hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?
– Anonymous

You love the first person who ever touches you and never love anyone quite that way again.
– Anonymous

You should tell the truth, but all truths doesn’t need to be told.
– Queen Katarina of Sweden