Weak people cannot be sincere. -Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue. -Confucius

I killed forty men: they gave me a medal. I loved one: they gave me a dishonourable discharge. -army graffiti

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. -Harry Emerson Fosdick

Nothing so much convinces me of the boundlessness of the human mind as its operations in dreaming. -Clulow

When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -Betty Bender

God sees us as he would like us to be... but loves us as we are. -Sandra Medina

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. -Thomas Carruthers

Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -Norman Douglas

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -Alexandre Dumas fils

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -W. Somerset Maugham

This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -Horace Walpole

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody. -Lily Tomlin

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

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. -Henry Beecher

Ambition is nothing but stubborness refined to follow our dreams. -DeAnna Friedman

Happiness is not an accident.
Nor is it something you wish for.
Happiness is something you design.
-Jim Rohn

A true friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be going down. -Stephanie Keller

Today I will do better than yesterday.
Tomorrow I will do better than today.
And that is why I will fulfill my dreams.
-Peter Faber

Think of all the mistakes you haven't made. -Annie

Laziness is an extremely evolved form of efficiency.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -Tryon Edwards

There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job. -George Crane

Be kind. Remember, everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -Thompson

My interest is in the future, because I'm going to be spending the rest of my life there. -Charles Kettering

Say the Best; Think the Rest. -Sandy Fuentes

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts -Henry David Thoreau

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars. -Og Mandino

I never loved another person the way I loved myself. -Mae West

The next sentence is true.
The former sentence is false.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen. -Raymond Duncan

Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad -Spock

To be able to say how much you love is to love but little. -Petrarch

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. -Spencer Silver (on the work that led to "Post-It" notes)

Always listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. -Lazarus Long

Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory. -Albert Schweitzer

Love is friendship, friendship is love. If love fails, friendship should remain. For friendship is the foundation of love.

The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. -H P Lovecraft

Anything anybody can say about America is true. -Emmett Grogan

A physicist is an atoms way of knowing about atoms. -George Wald

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself. -George Santayana

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them. -Heisenberg

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. -Buckminster Fuller

If the love you think you felt goes away quickly, then what you felt was never love to begin with. -Henry Mac

I can pardon everyone's mistakes but my own. -Marcus Porcius Cato

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. -Bertrand Russell

If you don't like yourself you CAN'T like other people. -Lazarus Long (Robert A. Heinlein)

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. -Aldous Huxley

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one has not time to write down. -Hector Berlioz

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours." -Vine Deloria, Jr.

Reality is a "white man's" invention. It was invented to measure motion. -Prof. Walker, UMD

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. -Mencius

Each betrayal begins with trust, Every man returns to dust -Phish

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Vonnegut

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. -Joe Acias

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal. -Anatole France

I swear - by my life and my love of it - that I will never live for the sake of another man or ask another man to live for mine. -Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

There are two tragedies in life. One is NOT to get your hearts desire, and the other is to get it. -Shaw

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -Paul Dirac

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -B. F. Skinner

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -Andrew Brown

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

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense. -C. Truesdell

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -Tom Clancy

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

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -Paul Valery

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others. -Virginia Woolf

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -Isaac Asimov

Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -Plutarch

Science is a collection of successful recipes. -Paul Valery

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I like things to happen, and if they don’t happen, I like to make them happen. -Winston Churchill

Murder within the species, on an individual or a collective scale, is a phenomenon almost unknown in the whole animal kingdom, except for man and a few varieties of ants and rats. -Arthur Koestler

The only time I know something to be true is at the moment I discover it in the act of writing. -Jean Malaquais

I used to be adjective happy. Now I cut them with so much severity that I find I have to put a few adjectives back. -Frank Yerby

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. -Helen Keller

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. -H. Jackson Browne

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy. -Cythina Nelms

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. -Erica Jong

Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories. -Eli Wiesel

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop. -Josh Billings

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self. -Montaigne

My goal in life is to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am. -Jerry Lupien

Sometimes the simplest gesture seems like the biggest showing of kindness possible. -Erica Lynn Dager

Don't wish me happiness. I don't expect to be happy all the time... It's gotten beyond that somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor. I will need them all. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh

We are often so caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey, Especially the goodness of the people we meet along the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don't overlook it.

It is not the perfect picture we are looking for, but rather time spent to be captured. -Brian Aanestad

We fail because deep inside we want to. We rise when we have no alternatives. Extinguish your alternatives, and you have no where to go but UP!! -Nirvikar Dahiya

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