James Michener
sitemanagerCharacter consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
Baltasar Gracian
The path to greatness is along with others.
WT Purkiser
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.
C.S. Lewis
I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
Mark Twain
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Ronald Reagan
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Thomas Paine
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Lyall Watson
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
Walt Disney
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Theodore Roosevelt
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days…
Benjamin Franklin
Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
David Gemmell
If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.
Thomas Paine
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Mark Twain
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I…
Stanley Kubrick
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the…
Jimi Hendrix
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Susan B. Anthony
The women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
Benjamin Disraeli
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
George Bernard Shaw
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an…
Colman McCarthy
Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
Henry Ford
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
Benjamin Franklin
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
Oscar Wilde
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Charles Caleb Colton
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
John Cassavettes
It made me sick to watch those businessmen applaud Welles during the 1975 AFI tribute, when you know that the next day if he asked any one of them for…
Phyllis Diller
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered.
Charles Darwin
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special…
GK Chesterton
Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
T.S. Eliot
As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent…
Albert Einstein
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
C.S. Lewis
Don't say it was 'delightful'; make us say 'delightful' when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers…
Theodore Roosevelt
I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God enters by a private door into every individual.
George Patton
If a man does his best, what else is there?
Ambrose Bierce
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Henry Mencken
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
T.S. Eliot
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Aldous Huxley
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Benjamin Franklin
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Woody Allen
I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic.
Bruce Barton
When you're through changing, you're through.
George Carlin
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.
Benjamin Franklin
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
Ben Stein
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.
Yogi Berra
I wish I had an answer to that, because I'm tired of answering that question.
Niels Bohr
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
George Bernard Shaw
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
Carl Jung
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Charles Caleb Colton
There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
Theodore Roosevelt
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Mark Twain
Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
W.C. Fields
I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake -- which I also keep handy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Woody Allen
Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.
John F. Kennedy
No easy problem ever comes to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.
Barry Goldwater
You don't need to be 'straight' to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
Dwight Eisenhower
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
Madonna Ciccone
Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.
Fran Lebowitz
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
John Wooden
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
George Patton
If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for…
Alexis de Tocqueville
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
David Hume
Learning has been great loser by being shut up in colleges and cells and secluded from the world and good company.
Socrates
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Dave Barry
Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
Abraham Lincoln
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Charles Schulz
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Robert M. Hamilton
A book of quotations...can never be complete.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
Bill Gates
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Bill Cosby
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
John F. Kennedy
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
Charles Frazier
What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're left with only your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to…