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Profound Quotations by Last Name A
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscious.-Henry B. Adams One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.-Henry B. Adams Better to die a thousand deaths than wound my honor.-Joseph Addison It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.-Alfred Adler 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 Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night.-George Allen Death should not be seen as the end but as a very effective way to cut down expenses.-Woody Allen I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.-Woody Allen We do not want to destroy any people. It is precisely because we have been advocating coexistence that we have shed so much blood.-Yasser Arafat Women like silent men. They think they're listening.-Marcel Archard A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.-Herm Albright Now the body of one soul I adore wants to die You have always told me you'd not live past 25 I say stay long enough to repay All who caused strife.-Alice in Chains Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol.-Anonymous Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that you've got it made.-Anonymous Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.-Anonymous Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life, so get wasted all the time and have the time of your life.-Anonymous There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere." -Isaac Asimov B If it's natural to kill why do men have to go into training to learn how?-Joan Baez Are you threatening me?-Beavis Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.-Elias Root Beadle Music can change the world.-Beethoven The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.-Milo Bloom The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.-Dietrich Bonhoeffer When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.-James H. Boren It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.-Alec Bourne Blessed is she who has learned to laugh at herself, for she shall never cease to be entertained.-John Bowell I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.-Ashleigh Brilliant Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is.-Ashleigh Brilliant My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right.-Ashleigh Brilliant I think that parents only get So offended by television because They rely on it as a babysitter And the sole educator of their kids.-Kyle Broflofsky, Southpark No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.-Jacob Bronowski Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.-William F. Buckley He that is down need fear no fall.-John Bunyan One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.-Robert Burton The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.-Samuel Butler (1612-1680) C Men willingly believe what they wish.-Julius Caesar The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist believes this is true.-James B. Cabell You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.-Al Capone If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.-George Carlin And while the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.-Andrew Carnegie Happiness does not depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.-Dale Carnegie As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.-Dick Cavett It is better to be hurt by the truth, than to be made a fool of by a lie.-Karen Cedrone It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.-Jacob Chanowski In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.-Cesar Chavez Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.-Sir Winston Churchill Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?-Ramsey Clark You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.-Eldridge Cleaver The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.-Eldridge Cleaver War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.-Georges Clemenceau The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.-Harold Coffin When you have nothing to say, say nothing.-Charles Caleb Colton I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.-Confucius Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.-Confucius You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.-Joseph Conrad Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.-Billy Crystal D It's kind of fun to do the impossible.-Walt Disney E The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use: with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse than the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.-Tyron Edwards Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.-Ralph Waldo Emerson What you do speaks so loud that i cannot hear what you say.-Ralph Waldo Emerson Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.-Ralph Waldo Emerson The years teach much which the days never knew.-Ralph Waldo Emerson Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.-Susan Ertz (1943) F If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.-Anatole France (1844-1924) A jury consists of twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer.-Robert Frost Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.-Robert Frost G Imagination is the one weapon against reality.-Jules de Gaultier We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.-Kahlil Gibran Success has killed more men than bullets.-Texas Guinan H Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.-Bishop Hall Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.-William Hazlitt When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.-Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.-John Holt Tis after death that we measure men.-James Barron Hope So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citiizens will occasionally kill theirs.-Elbert Hubbard Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.-Langston Hughes I It is better to die on your feet than to live on yor knees.-Delores Ibarruri J It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.-Jeseph Joubert Death is psychologically as important as birth...Shrinking away from it is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.-Carl Gustav Jung (1961) K We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.-John Fitzgerald Kennedy In the long run, we are all dead.-John Maynard Keynes The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.-Soren Kierkegaard If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.-Martin Luther King, 1963 Every soul must taste of death.-Koran Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.-Jonathon Kozol L Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.-Lord Acton Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.-Clare Boothe Luce No good deed goes unpunished.-Clare Boothe Luce M It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.-Niccolo Machiavelli There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.-Charles Mackay Sanity is a small price to pay for happiness.-Marabeth Madsen~sent in by Karen Ksiez, thanks Bathe her and bring her to my tent--that's what power's all about-Bill Maher Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.-William Somerset Maugham No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.-H. L. Mencken The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.-H. L. Mencken Don't sweat the petty things. On the other hand, don't pet the sweaty things.-Dennis Miller Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.-John Milton The dead have nothing except the memory they've left.-Ferenc Molnar Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.-Bill Musselman N The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.-Vladimir Nabokov I drink to make other people interesting.-George Jean Nathan Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?-Holly Near O Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.-P.J. O'Rourke P The cemetary of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetary, that of the unborn.-Pope John Paul II, (1991) Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners-no matter what fork you use.-Emily Post We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.-Marcel Proust Q R Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.-Ronald Reagan Everybody's ignorant,just in different subjects.-Will Rogers Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.-Theodore Roosevelt Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.-Jean Rostand S Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.-A. Sachs Give me chastity and continency-but not yet-Saint Augustine The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.-Sallust Ask not what I can do for you. Ask what you can do for me.-Jerry Seinfeld Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.-George Bernard Shaw All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me-so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer.-Homer Simpson I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet, tasty beer.-Homer Simpson We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, buy by his actions.-Isaac Bashens Singer (1904-1991) I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to fee all day.-Frank Sinatra There's something dreadfuly decisive about a beheading.-Agnes Smedley Why can't we just get together all the people in the world that we really like? And then stay together? I guess that wouldn't work though. Somone would leave. Someone always leaves. And then we'd have to say goodbye. I hate goodbyes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.-Snoopy~sent in by Karen Ksiez, thanks The unexamined life is not worth living.-Socrates It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.-Charles Spurgeon, sent in by Paula, thanks T The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.-Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1898) If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine.-Michael Jay Tucker I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.-Mark Twain U Man dies of cold, not darkness.-Miguel de Unamuno Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.-Unknown Coming together is a beginning; Keeping together is progress; Working together is success.-Unknown, sent in by Paula V To bring into the world an unwanted human being is as antisocial an act as murder.-Gore Vidal While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.-Leonardo da Vinci W Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.-H. G. Wells The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.-T.H. White I can resist anything except temptation.-Oscar Wilde Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.-Oscar Wilde Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence.-Sloan Wilson If you live to be 100, then I want to live to be 100 minus a day so I never have to live without you.-Winnie the Pooh~sent in by Karen Ksiez, thanks Hermits have no peer pressure.-Steven Wright X Y Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.-Yoda~sent in by Karen Ksiez, thanks When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.-Henny Youngman Z Fortune cookies: Anger begins with folly, and ends with regret. Proverbs He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.-Chinese The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.-Chinese The person who has no opinion will seldom be wrong. From Romania and Russia If you have any good quotes, my e-mail is: dee_rules_2000@yahoo.com send them in. |
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