» “Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.”
– Brian Aldiss

» “The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.”
– Nelson Algren

» “Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.”
– Martin Amis

» “It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.”
– Margaret Anderson

» “To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.”
– Aristotle

» “If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.”
– Isaac Asimov

» “No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.”
– W. H. Auden

» “Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.”
– W. H. Auden

» “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”
– Richard Bach

» “A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.”
– Gaston Bachelard

» “Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.”
– Walter Bagehot

» “Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. To ”Why am I here?” To uselessness. It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.”
– Enid Bagnold

» “Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.”
– James Baldwin

» “The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.”
– James Baldwin

» “To endow the writer publicly with a good fleshly body, to reveal that he likes dry white wine and underdone steak, is to make even more miraculous for me, and of a more divine essence, the products of his art. Far from the details of his daily life bringing nearer to me the nature of his inspiration and making it clearer, it is the whole mystical singularity of his condition which the writer emphasizes by such confidences. For I cannot but ascribe to some superhumanly the existence of beings vast enough to wear blue pajamas at the very moment when they manifest themselves as universal conscience.”
– Roland Barthes

» “On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.”
– Charles Baudelaire

» “All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he’s a writer. It’s an aphrodisiac.”
– Saul Bellow

» “The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.”
– Robert Benchley

» “The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.”
– Robert Benchley

» “It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up, because by that time I was too famous.”
– Robert Benchley

» “Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.”
– Walter Benjamin

» “I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I’m homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I’m not.”
– Alan Bennett

» “Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.”
– Arnold Bennett

» “Why do writers write? Because it isn’t there.”
– Thomas Berger

» “To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking — and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.”
– Maurice Blanchot

» “A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.”
– Maurice Blanchot

» “No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.”
– Nicholas Boileau

» “He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.”
– Nicholas Boileau

» “Every writer ”creates” his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.”
– Jorge Luis Borges

» “Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.”
– Jorge Luis Borges

» “A book should be luminous not voluminous.”
– Christian Nevell Bovee

» “For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.”
– Catherine Drinker Bowen

» “Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.”
– Catherine Drinker Bowen

» “Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.”
– Joseph Brodsky

» “But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master — something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.”
– Charlotte Bronte

» “Great writers are the saints for the godless.”
– Anita Brookner

» “Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.”
– Mel Brooks

» “The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!”
– Robert Browning

» “Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.”
РJean De La Bruy̬re

» “The pen is mightier than the sword.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

» “Writers are the main landmarks of the past.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

» “Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.”
– Julie Burchill

» “The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.”
– Anthony Burgess

» “The only living works are those which have drained much of the author’s own life into them.”
– Samuel Butler

» “To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.”
– Lord Byron

» “Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; — all this comes of Authorship.”
– Lord Byron

» “If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.”
– Lord Byron

» “In general I do not draw well with literary men — not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.”
– Lord Byron

» “The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.”
– Elias Canetti

» “I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.”
– Truman Capote

» “Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.”
– Thomas Carlyle

» “Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand — a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods — or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.”
– Willa Cather

» “To note an artist’s limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.”
– Willa Cather

» “To note an artist’s limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.”
– Willa Cather

» “An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.”
– Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

» “Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.”
– Raymond Chandler

» “There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success.”
– Raymond Chandler

» “The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.”
– John Cheever

» “Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration’s artful aid.”
– Charles Churchill

» “Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.”
– Winston Churchill

» “Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.”
– Marcus T. Cicero

» “The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.”
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

» “If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!”
– Jackie Collins

» “To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

» “Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

» “The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

» “When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment. A shows B that he has read something of B s. Will B show A? If not, then A hates B, if yes, then all is well. The only other way for writers to meet is to share a quick pee over a common lamp-post.”
– Cyril Connolly

» “A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.”
– Cyril Connolly

» “The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.”
– Cyril Connolly

» “In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable.”
– Charles Horton Cooley

» “Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.”
– James J. Corbett

» “If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist.”
– Quentin Crisp

» “There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: ”More money for more work.””
– Aleister Crowley

» “Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.”
– Edward Dahlberg

» “Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.”
– Edward Dahlberg

» “What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.”
– Edward Dahlberg

» “To write is a humiliation.”
– Edward Dahlberg

» “I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, ”I will tell you a story,” and then he passes the hat.”
– Robertson Davies

» “The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.”
– Richard Harding Davis

» “Writing isn’t hard. It isn’t any harder than ditch-digging.”
– Patrick Dennis

» “Writers are always selling somebody out.”
– Joan Didion

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» “An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “The writer isn’t made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.”
– E. L. Doctorow

» “Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
– E. L. Doctorow

» “Writing is turning one’s worst moments into money.”
– J. P. Donleavy

» “Yes, it’s hard to write, but it’s harder not to.”
– Carl Van Doren

» “The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.”
– Isadora Duncan

» “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
– Wayne Dyer

» “Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself.”
– Leon Edel

» “I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.”
– George Eliot

» “Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
– T. S. Eliot

» “Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.”
– Lucy Ellman

» “There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed, decides upon every man’s title to fame.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “A pathological business, writing, don’t you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!”
– Hans Magnus Enzensberger

» “If you wish to be a writer; write!”
– Epictetus

» “Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.”
– Cliff Fadiman

» “There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.”
– Cliff Fadiman

» “The first thing an unpublished author should remember is that no one asked him to write in the first place. With this firmly in mind, he has no right to become discouraged just because other people are being published.”
– John Farrar

» “My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.”
– William Faulkner

» “The writer’s only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.”
– William Faulkner

» “If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.”
– William Faulkner

» “I never know what I think about something until I read what I’ve written on it.”
– William Faulkner

» “If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the ”Ode on a Grecian Urn” is worth any number of old ladies.”
– William Faulkner

» “Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.”
– Edna Ferber

» “Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!”
– Edna Ferber

» “Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer’s love until death.”
– Edna Ferber

» “Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.”
– Edward M. Forster

» “The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.”
– Gene Fowler

» “Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”
– Gene Fowler

» “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “Our work is to present things that are as they are.”
– Frederick II

» “Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”
– Sigmund Freud

» “The walls are the publishers of the poor.”
– Eduardo Galeano

» “It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
– Edward Gibbon

» “The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.”
– Edward Gibbon

» “If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he’s written it.”
– William Golding

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» “You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.”
– Ellen Goodman

» “A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.”
– George Gribbon

» “I don’t regard Brecht as a man of iron-gray purpose and intellect, I think he is a theatrical whore of the first quality.”
– Sir Peter Hall

» “Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word.”
– Gail Hamilton

» “If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.”
– Peter Handke

» “The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning further than the author himself can see or perceive.”
– Vaclav Havel

» “The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.”
– William Hazlitt

» “If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”
– Lillian Hellman

» “They’re fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”
– Lillian Hellman

» “A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”
– Ernest Hemingway

» “I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.”
– Ernest Hemingway

» “Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
– Ernest Hemingway

» “The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it.”
– Ernest Hemingway

» “The writer must write what he has to say, not speak it.”
– Ernest Hemingway

» “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
– Ernest Hemingway

» “We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”
– Ernest Hemingway

» “Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer’s loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.”
– Ernest Hemingway

» “They can’t yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.”
– Ernest Hemingway

» “Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.”
– Oliver Herford

» “The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

» “Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.”
– Horace

» “Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.”
– Horace

» “One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.”
– Horace

» “The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.”
– Horace

» “You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.”
– Horace

» “You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.”
– Horace

» “The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.”
– Julia Ward Howe

» “A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right.”
– John K. Hutchens

» “I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.”
– Washington Irving

» “I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.”
– Henry James

» “He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.”
– Henry James

» “Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text”
– William James

» “Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.”
– Joseph Joubert

» “No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.”
– James Joyce

» “Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many.”
–Decimus Junius Juvenalis Juvenal

» “I’d rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.”
– Ken Kesey

» “The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.”
– Omar Khayyam

» “People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy — and I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
– Stephen King

» “I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.”
– George Konrad

» “A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.”
– Karl Kraus

» “This is something that I cannot get over — that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a work could be built on the quicksand of a character.”
– Karl Kraus

» “It requires more than mere genius to be an author.”
– Jean De La Bruyere

» “The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.”
– Walter Savage Landor

» “I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.”
– D. H. Lawrence

» “I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.”
– D. H. Lawrence

» “It’s hard enough to write a good drama, it’s much harder to write a good comedy, and it’s hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.”
– Jack Lemmon

» “The cure for writers cramp is writer’s block.”
– Inigo de Leon

» “The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.”
– Claude Levi-Strauss

» “We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.”
– Cecil Day Lewis

» “As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.”
– Georg C. Lichtenberg

» “Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.”
– Georg C. Lichtenberg

» “I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”
– A. J. Liebling

» “I think it’s bad to talk about one’s present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.”
– Norman Mailer

» “Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
– Norman Mailer

» “The writer’s language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.”
– Paul De Man

» “The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.”
– Paul De Man

» “Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez

» “I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well.”
– Don Marquis

» “If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn’t need to have the rest of the universities attached.”
– Judith Martin

» “Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does.”
– Groucho Marx

» “The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.”
– Karl Marx

» “The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

» “The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

» “It’s very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

» “Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

» “There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

» “The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it… I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.”
– Andre Maurois

» “You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.”
– Ian Mcewan

» “You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.”
– Larry Mcmurtry

» “Give me a condor’s quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!”
– Herman Melville

» “I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.”
– H. L. Mencken

» “Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.”
– Paul J. Meyer

» “… Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors — somewhat disreputable but endlessly fascinating — none of us can name two French generals or department store owners of that period. I take enormous pride in considering myself an artist, one of the necessaries.”
– James A. Michener

» “I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.”
– James A. Michener

» “I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.”
– James A. Michener

» “A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.”
– Henry Miller

» “After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I’d say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you’re walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you’re not vitally interested in.”
– Henry Miller

» “Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.”
– Olin Miller

» “Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.”
– John Milton

» “I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others.”
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» “All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.”
– Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

» “Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.”
– Edmund Morrison

» “Of course I’m a black writer. I’m not just a black writer, but categories like black writer, woman writer and Latin American writer aren’t marginal anymore. We have to acknowledge that the thing we call ”literature” is more pluralistic now, just as society ought to be. The melting pot never worked. We ought to be able to accept on equal terms everybody from the Hasidim to Walter Lippmann, from the Rastafarians to Ralph Bunche.”
– Toni Morrison

» “The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.”
– John Mortimer

» “Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.”
– Iris Murdoch

» “Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.”
– Vladimir Nabokov

» “I’m the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.”
– V. S. Naipaul

» “The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present — henceforth? — the subject to which you are condemned.”
– Howard Nemerov

» “To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.”
– Harold Nicolson

» “Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

» “A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.”
– Gregory Nunn

» “Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.”
– Flannery O’Connor

» “For a creative writer possession of the ”truth” is less important than emotional sincerity.”
– George Orwell

» “Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.”
– George Orwell

» “All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
– George Orwell

» “He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.”
– George Orwell

» “One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said — the words one didn’t have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one’s dignity or survival.”
– Cynthia Ozick

» “If you’re going to write, don’t pretend to write down. It’s going to be the best you can do, and it’s the fact that it’s the best you can do that kills you.”
– Dorothy Parker

» “If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.”
– Blaise Pascal

» “The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.”
– Blaise Pascal

» “Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.”
– Octavio Paz

» “Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.”
– Harold Pinter

» “I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I’d love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true.”
– Luigi Pirandello

» “Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?”
– Alexander Pope

» “True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. ‘Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.”
– Alexander Pope

» “Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.”
– Alexander Pope

» “Most authors steal their works, or buy.”
– Alexander Pope

» “Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose… anything goes.”
– Cole Porter

» “Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.”
– Ezra Pound

» “Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.”
– Ezra Pound

» “I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.”
– Marcel Proust

» “Great writers arrive among us like new diseases — threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.”
– Craig Raine

» “What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.”
– Burton Rascoe

» “Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately-many people will help you unintentionally.”
– Santha Rama Rau

» “Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait.”
– Charles Reade

» “To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.”
– Anne Rice

» “Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it’s about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.”
– Mordecai Richler

» “Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.”
– Jean Paul Richter

» “A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood. The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.”
– Leo Rosten

» “Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.”
– Leo Rosten

» “The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can’t help it.”
– Leo Rosten

» “Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.”
– Salman Rushdie

» “Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can’t forgive.”
– Salman Rushdie

» “I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.”
– Salman Rushdie

» “Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.”
– Salman Rushdie

» “It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.”
– John Ruskin

» “I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible.”
– Bertrand Russell

» “It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? for the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.”
– Vita Sackville-West

» “Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.”
– Francoise Sagan

» “The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.”
– George Sand

» “Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.”
– Blaise Cendrars Sauser

» “When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.”
– Seneca

» “The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “I cringe when critics say I’m a master of the popular novel. What’s an unpopular novel?”
– Irwin Shaw

» “Easy writings curse is hard reading.”
– Richard Brinsley Sheridan

» “Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.”
– Sir Philip Sidney

» “Writing is not a profession, but a vocation of unhappiness.”
– Georges Simenon

» “A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.”
– Isaac Bashevis Singer

» “Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.”
– Dr. Walter Smith

» “What I like in a good author isn’t what he says, but what he whispers.”
– Logan Pearsall Smith

» “Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.”
– Logan Pearsall Smith

» “Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.”
– Nancy Banks Smith

» “The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.”
– Sydney Smith

» “Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
– Socrates

» “Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.”
– Philippe Sollers

» “For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That’s why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn

» “The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.”
– Susan Sontag

» “The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.”
– John Steinbeck

» “The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.”
– John Steinbeck

» “The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid, stable business.”
– John Steinbeck

» “Writers are a little below the clowns and a little above the trained seals.”
– John Steinbeck

» “Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.”
– Gloria Steinem

» “What you’re trying to do when you write is to crowd the reader out of his own space and occupy it with yours, in a good cause. You’re trying to take over his sensibility and deliver an experience that moves from mere information.”
– Robert Stone

» “What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.”
– J. August Strindberg

» “Let’s face it, writing is hell.”
– William Styron

» “O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.”
– Jonathan Swift

» “Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.”
– Jonathan Swift

» “As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man’s family.”
– J. M. Synge

» “The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.”
– William M. Thackeray

» “A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.”
– James Thurber

» “When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.”
– James Thurber

» “A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.”
– Count Leo Tolstoy

» “No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats… these are the facts.”
– Alexander Trocchi

» “As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.”
– Mark Twain

» “Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.”
– Mark Twain

» “Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.”
– Mark Twain

» “My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.”
– Source Unknown

» “You don’t write because you want to say something; you write because you’ve got something to say.”
– Source Unknown

» “Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper… sharp pencils… typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to your desk… roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter… and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.”
– Source Unknown

» “Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meager.”
– Source Unknown

» “Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves — that’s the truth. We have two or three great moving experiences in our lives — experiences so great and moving that it doesn’t seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before.”
– Source Unknown

» “An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards.”
– Source Unknown

» “All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.”
– Source Unknown

» “Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean back ward trying — only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.”
– Source Unknown

» “Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, and Samuel Beckett one — and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that’s a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.”
– Gore Vidal

» “Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.”
– Gore Vidal

» “Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.”
– Stephen Vizinczey

» “You can never correct your work well until you have forgotten it.”
– Voltaire

» “The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.”
– Mary Heaton Vorse

» “I love being a writer, what I can’t stand is the paperwork.”
– Peter De Vries

» “Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”
– Alice Walker

» “Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.”
– Horace Walpole

» “Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.”
– John Wesley

» “Good writing is clear thinking made visible.”
– Bill Wheeler

» “In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.”
– E(lwyn) B(rooks) White

» “Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.”
– E(lwyn) B(rooks) White

» “Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.”
– Elie Wiesel

» “From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.”
– Thornton Wilder

» “We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.”
– Virginia Woolf

» “I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again — as I always am when I write.”
– Virginia Woolf

» “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
– Virginia Woolf

» “Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.”
– Virginia Woolf

» “The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.”
– William Butler Yeats

» “Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.”
– William Zinsser

» “Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.”
– William Zinsser

» “Hard writing makes easy reading. Easy writing makes hard reading.”
– William Zinsser

» “Writing is a craft not an art.”
– William Zinsser

» “Writing is thinking on paper.”
– William Zinsser

» “Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.”
– Maya Angelou

» “Don’t be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.”
– Brooks Atkinson

» “A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.”
– W. H. Auden

» “In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it –not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.”
– W. H. Auden

» “I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.”
– Jane Austen

» “Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.”
– Colleen C. Barrett

» “Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.”
– Bernard M. Baruch

» “Inspiration comes of working every day.”
– Charles Baudelaire

» “In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

» “Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!”
– Henry Ward Beecher

» “Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.”
– Robert Benchley

» “What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men.”
– Bhagavad Gita

» “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. [Ecclesiastes 9:10]“
– Bible

» “I must work the work of him that sent me while it is day; for the night comet when no man can work.”
– Bible

» “In the sweat of thy brow shall you eat your bread.”
– Bible

» “Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.”
– Josh Billings

» “To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do.”
– Susan Blow

» “A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.”
– William Frederick Book

» “The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.”
– William Frederick Book

» “When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.”
– Michael Bridge

» “After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.”
– Joseph Brodsky

» “A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
– Emily Bronte

» “We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.”
– Dean Charles R. Brown

» “Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor’s done.”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning

» “Poor workers! First they’re cuckolded, and, as if that weren’t enough, then they’re beaten! Work’s a curse, Saturno. I say to hell with the work you have to do to earn a living! That kind of work does us no honor; all it does is fill up the bellies of the pigs who exploit us. But the work you do because you like to do it, because you’ve heard the call, you’ve got a vocation –that’s ennobling! We should all be able to work like that. Look at me, Saturno –I don’t work. And I don’t care if they hang me, I won’t work! Yet I’m alive! I may live badly, but at least I don’t have to work to do it!”
– Luis Bunuel

» “Beauty is also to be found in a day’s work.”
– Mamie Sypert Burns

» “Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.”
– Samuel Butler

» “Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.”
– Samuel Butler

» “Most people show up for work being physically accoutered but mentally disheveled.”
– Eric Butterworth

» “The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief.”
– Eileen Caddy

» “It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.”
– Michael C. Cahill

» “Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.”
– Albert Camus

» “A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.”
– Thomas Carlyle

» “Work alone is noble.”
– Thomas Carlyle

» “Every noble work is at first impossible.”
– Thomas Carlyle

» “Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.”
– Thomas Carlyle

» “The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.”
– Andrew Carnegie

» “Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
– Dale Carnegie

» “Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.”
– Cato The Elder

» “Every man is the son of his own works.”
– Miguel De Cervantes

» “The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.”
– Miguel De Cervantes

» “I believe that good things come to those who work.”
– Wilt Chamberlain

» “Never hire anyone who is going to report directly to you who you do not intuitively just plain like from first impressions. If your instincts tell you you’re going to have a hard time working with someone, pass.”
– Fred Charette

» “Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.”
– Geoffrey Chaucer

» “The more one works, the more willing one is to work.”
– Lord Chesterfield

» “Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.”
– St. John Chrysosatom

» “If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.”
– John Cleese

» “Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it’s one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.”
– Leonard Cohen

» “Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
– Confucius

» “I don’t like work… but I like what is in work — the chance to find yourself. Your own reality — for yourself, not for others — which no other man can ever know.”
– Joseph Conrad

» “A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.”
– Joseph Conrad

» “When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.”
– Calvin Coolidge

» “Work is more fun than fun.”
– Noel Coward

» “It is better to wear out than to rust out.”
– Richard Cumberland

» “I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.”
– Clarence Darrow

» “To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.”
– Bette Davis

» “I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.”
– Bette Davis

» “Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.”
РEug̬ne Delacroix

» “Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.”
– Fyodor Dostoevski

» “Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

» “The honest work of yesterday has lost its social status, its social esteem.”
– Peter F. Drucker

» “Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.”
– Peter F. Drucker

» “I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.”
– Thomas A. Edison

» “I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.”
– Thomas A. Edison

» “Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don’t happen to think it’s an appropriate subject for an ”ethic.””
– Barbara Ehrenreich

» “How do I work? I grope.”
– Albert Einstein

» “We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “My work is a game — a very serious game.”
– M. C. Escher

» “No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross — was that a failure.”
– Frederick Farrar

» “One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after day, is work. You can’t eat eight hours a day nor drink for eight hours a day nor make love for eight hours –all you can do for eight hours is work. Which is the reason why man makes himself and everybody else so miserable and unhappy.”
– William Faulkner

» “There isn’t any luck that enters into anything, unless it’s poker or shooting dice, maybe. There is no luck to merchandising. There is no luck in going out and working from early in the morning to long after dinner. That is not luck, it’s work.”
– Fred W. Fitch

» “Good work habits help develop an internal toughness and a self-confident attitude that will sustain you through every adversity and temporary discouragement.”
– Paul J. Fleyer

» “Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.”
– B. C. Forbes

» “If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes

» “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it.”
– Henry Ford

» “I don’t need to be Tom Cruise. I just need to work forever.”
– Jodie Foster

» “My father always told me, ”Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.””
– Jim Fox

» “Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.”
– Anne Frank

» “It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
– Milton Friedman

» “The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.”
– Robert Frost

» “A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.”
– Robert Frost

» “Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith

» “Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you’re just sitting still?”
– J. Paul Getty

» “Work is love made visible. And if you can’t work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy.”
– Kahlil Gibran

» “I don’t have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.”
– Dobie Gillis

» “Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.”
– Oliver Goldsmith

» “When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.”
– Maxim Gorky

» “Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.”
– Ulysses S. Grant

» “I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.”
– Bruce Grocott

» “Intimate or drastic elements in the work of others are untouchable and should not be commented upon even in their absence. Private conflicts, quarrels, sentiments, animosities are unavoidable in any human group. It is our duty towards creation to keep these in check in so far as they might deform and wreck the work process.”
– Jerzy Grotowski

» “Nothing is work unless you’d rather be doing something else.”
– George Halas

» “My work is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels — we know their names, they number a thousand for each red ribbon we wear here tonight. [Accepting his Best Actor Oscar for Philadelphia]“
– Tom Hanks

» “As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.”
– Katharine Hepburn

» “Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.”
– Don Herold

» “Every calling is great when greatly pursued.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

» “Work your way up or rust your way out.”
– Holton

» “Labor diligently to increase your property.”
– Horace

» “A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.”
– Horace

» “If food were free, why work?”
– Doug Horton

» “The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.”
– Elbert Hubbard

» “Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.”
– Elbert Hubbard

» “Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for anymore than they do.”
– Elbert Hubbard

» “Blessed is that man who has found his work.”
– Elbert Hubbard

» “We work to become, not to acquire.”
– Elbert Hubbard

» “Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.”
– L. Ron Hubbard

» “If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.”
– George C. Hubbs

» “Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.”
– Aldous Huxley

» “Industrial man –a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.”
– Aldous Huxley

» “I am his mistress. His work is his wife.”
– Marion Javits

» “I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.”
– Jerome K. Jerome

» “The sharp employ the sharp.”
– Douglas William Jerrold

» “Labor is the fabled magician’s wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.”
– James Weldon Johnson

» “It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “The world is moved along not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”
– Helen Keller

» “My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.”
– Helen Keller

» “There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.”
– Jack Kemp

» “Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

» “More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.”
– Rudyard Kipling

» “No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.”
– KäThe Kollwitz

» “Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld

» “Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.”
– Ann Landers

» “Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can’t I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?”
– Philip Larkin

» “Work is life, you know, and without it, there’s nothing but fear and insecurity.”
– John Lennon

» “The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn’t mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don’t give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,”
– Sy Leon

» “My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.”
– Abraham Lincoln

» “Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.”
– Abraham Lincoln

» “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my ax.”
– Abraham Lincoln

» “The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”
– Vince Lombardi

» “Every person born into this world their work is born with them.”
– James Russell Lowell

» “Keep quiet. Do your work in the world, but inwardly keep quiet. Then all will come to you.”
– Nisaragada Ha Maharaj

» “To work — to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.”
– Katherine Mansfield

» “The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.”
– Orison Swett Marden

» “He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.”
– Don Marquis

» “In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.”
– Karl Marx

» “Remember that your work comes only moment by moment, and as surely as God calls you to work, he gives the strength to do it.”
– Priscilla Maurice

» “The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.”
– Andre Maurois

» “Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ”work” of man.”
– Mary Mccarthy

» “Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K.”
– J. P. Mcevoy

» “I have never liked working. To me a job is an invasion of privacy.”
– Danny Mcgoorty

» “Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact.”
– M. C. Mcintosh

» “If it’s true that men today value their lives outside of work as much as women do–and research proves it is–then they have to join women’s fight to reconstruct the way we work and create a new, broader definition of success.”
– Elizabeth Perle Mckenna

» “Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.”
– Marshall Mcluhan

» “Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.”
– Herman Melville

» “It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.”
– Michelangelo

» “Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.”
– Ronnie Milsap

» “In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.”
– Warren Mitchell

» “I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow.”
– Kiichi Miyazawa

» “Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.”
– Thomas S. Monson

» “A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works. Not only his own thoughts, but the thoughts of the men of past ages guide his hands; and, as part of the human race, he creates. If we work thus we shall be men, and our days will be happy and eventful.”
– William Morris

» “As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country’s old work ethic is dead.”
– Lance Morrow

» “There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in –that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.”
– Mother Teresa

» “If you don’t want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.”
– Ogden Nash

» “Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher’s stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.”
– Sir William Osler

» “Work is the province of cattle.”
– Dorothy Parker

» “Work either expands or contracts in order to fill the time available.”
– Parkinson’s Law

» “You don’t grow up in our neck of the woods believing that someone can outwork you.”
– Joseph Parkinson

» “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase ”It is the busiest man who has time to spare.””
– C. Northcote Parkinson

» “My only concern was to get home after a hard day’s work.”
– Rosa Parks

» “No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius.”
– Anna Pavlova

» “After love, the most sacred gift you can give is your labor.”
– Don Alan Pennebaker

» “Work is necessary for man. Man invented the alarm clock.”
– Pablo Picasso

» “Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.”
– T. Boone Pickens

» “Work is only work if you’d rather be doing something else.”
– Ray Prince

» “A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.”
– Proverb

» “No bees, no honey; no work, no money.”
– Proverb

» “Want is the mother of industry.”
– Proverb

» “Plaster thick, some will stick.”
– Proverb

» “The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.”
– American Proverb

» “A man grows most tired while standing still.”
– Chinese Proverb

» “Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.”
– French Proverb

» “The work praises the man.”
– Irish Proverb

» “While a person gets they can never lose.”
– Scottish Proverb

» “Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.”
– John Ray

» “If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.”
– Sir Joshua Reynolds

» “The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ”How is the president?””
– Will Rogers

» “The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would be impressed.”
– Frank Romer

» “When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

» “If I went to work in a factory the first thing I’d do is join a union.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

» “We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

» “Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

» “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

» “It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau

» “The best work never was and never will be done for money.”
– John Ruskin

» “The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.”
– Dr. Jonas Salk

» “Work is not man’s punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.”
– George Sand

» “The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.”
– Charles M. Schwab

» “I never worked a day in my life. It’s not work when you love what you’re doing.”
– David Shakarian

» “Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “Get the job done.”
– Don Shula

» “When I think of work, it’s mostly about having control over your destiny, as opposed to being at the mercy of what’s out there.”
– Gary Sinise

» “No matter how big or soft or warm your beds is, you still have to get out of it.”
– Grace Slick

» “Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.”
– Dr. Walter Smith

» “At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man’s work.”
– Publilius Syrus

» “The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic –in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea –known to medical science is work.”
– Thomas Szasz

» “No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.”
– The Talmud

» “Anything that comes easy, comes wrong.”
– Josephine Tessier

» “Pennies do not come from heaven — they have to be earned here on earth.”
– Margaret Thatcher

» “Men have become the tools of their trade.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ”blessing” of idleness and won for us the ”curse” of labor.”
– Mark Twain

» “Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
– Mark Twain

» “Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.”
– Mark Twain

» “Intellectual ”work” is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.”
– Mark Twain

» “I do not like work even when someone else does it.”
– Mark Twain

» “Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.”
– Mark Twain

» “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow.”
– Source Unknown

» “Lincoln’s stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged him. He did the work and put in the hours on his own.”
– Source Unknown

» “You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.”
– Source Unknown

» “Work keeps at bay, three great evils — boredom, vice and need.”
– Source Unknown

» “Work is a four letter word!”
– Source Unknown

» “There is no excellence without labor, in the furnace, God may try you, thus to bring thee forth more bright.”
– Source Unknown

» “The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.”
– Source Unknown

» “Mankind’s worst enemy is fear of work.”
– Source Unknown

» “It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.”
– Source Unknown

» “I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.”
– Source Unknown

» “How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?”
– Source Unknown

» “Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle… when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”
– Source Unknown

» “Every day’s a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.”
– Source Unknown

» “Even a mosquito doesn’t get a pat on the back until he’s well into his work.”
– Source Unknown

» “A woman’s work is never done, especially the part she asks her husband to do.”
– Source Unknown

» “Even the woodpecker owes its success to the fact that he used his head.”
– Source Unknown

» “A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.”
– Paul Valery

» “Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.”
– Raoul Vaneigem

» “Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.”
– Marquis De Vauvenargues

» “Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.”
– Voltaire

» “I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ”work,” because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don’t always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.”
– Andy Warhol

» “Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.”
– George Washington

» “The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.”
– Simone Weil

» “Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “Work is the curse of the drinking class.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a set of values so markedly different from the traditional outlook that they promise to transform the character of work in America in the 80s.”
– Daniel Yankelovitch

» “Better to burn out than rust out.”
– Neil Young

» “The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.”
– Alfred Adler

» “If ever we hear a case of lying, we must look for a severe parents. A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.”
– Alfred Adler

» “That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.”
– Sherwood Anderson

» “The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.”
– Hannah Arendt

» “Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.”
– Aristotle

» “The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”
– Aristotle

» “A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.”
– St. Augustine

» “One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.”
– Marcus Aurelius

» “We catch on to the truth and technique of expectation in those rare moments when we are stirred by an awareness of a guidance seemingly higher and greater than our own, when for a little while we are taken over by a force and an intelligence above and beyond those commonly felt. Confident and free, filled with wonder and ready acceptance, we permit ourselves to be taken over by our unquestioning self.”
– Dr. Marcus Bach

» “Not being known doesn’t stop the truth from being true.”
– Richard Bach

» “Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]“
– Richard Bach

» “Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.”
– Azel Backus

» “What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.”
– Francis Bacon

» “Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.”
– Francis Bacon

» “It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth… and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.”
– Francis Bacon

» “You never find yourself until you face the truth.”
– Pearl Bailey

» “We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.”
– James Baldwin

» “A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.”
– James Baldwin

» “It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.”
– Arthur James Balfour

» “Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.”
– Hosea Ballou

» “There’s a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.”
– Leonard Barnes

» “With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.”
– Jean Baudrillard

» “Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.”
– Walter Benjamin

» “Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.”
– Bernard Berenson

» “There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.”
– Irving Berlin

» “Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.”
– Bible

» “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
– Bible

» “The truth shall set you free.”
– Bible

» “Seek and you will find.”
– Bible

» “The first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest. The third wrote, women are strongest: but above all things truth beareth away the victory. [Esdras 3:10]“
– Bible

» “Truth — An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.”
– Ambrose Bierce

» “As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
– Josh Billings

» “I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.”
– Wayne Birmingham

» “When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.”
– Otto Von Bismarck

» “When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.”
– William Blake

» “Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.”
– William Blake

» “The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent”
– William Blake

» “For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.”
– William Blake

» “A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
– William Blake

» “The great seal of truth is simplicity.”
– Herman Boerhaave

» “The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.”
– Niels Bohr

» “There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”
– Niels Bohr

» “Truth alone wounds.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

» “Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.”
– Ludwig Borne

» “Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false.”
– Francis H. Bradley

» “It’s essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life’s pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be corrected.”
– John Bradshaw

» “The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.”
– George Brandes

» “There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.”
– Vera Brittain

» “A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.”
– Sir Thomas Browne

» “Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.”
– Robert Browning

» “Truth never hurts the teller.”
– Robert Browning

» “Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.”
– William C. Bryant

» “One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

» “For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.”
– Samuel Butler

» “There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.”
– Samuel Butler

» “Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.”
– Lord Byron

» “We call first truths those we discover after all the others.”
– Albert Camus

» “A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.”
– Alexis Carrel

» “What I tell you three times is true.”
– Lewis Carroll

» “Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.”
– Miguel De Cervantes

» “Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.”
– Miguel De Cervantes

» “Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

» “You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

» “The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
– Winston Churchill

» “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.”
– Winston Churchill

» “In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.”
– Marcus T. Cicero

» “See it like it is!”
– Herb Cohen

» “It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.”
– Robert Collier

» “The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

» “Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

» “It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great.”
– Confucius

» “Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.”
– James F. Cooper

» “Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.”
– William Cowper

» “Our job is only to hold up the mirror — to tell and show the public what has happened.”
– Walter Cronkite

» “The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.”
– Clarence Darrow

» “Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.”
– Clarence Darrow

» “The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.”
– Robertson Davies

» “You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.”
– Robertson Davies

» “Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently”
– Richard Deupree

» “I am always going to be true to myself.”
– Princess of Wales Diana

» “There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.”
– Charles Dickens

» “Tell the truth, but tell it slant.”
– Emily Dickinson

» “Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.”
– Emily Dickinson

» “We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”
– Denis Diderot

» “Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

» “Truth disappears with the telling of it.”
– Lawrence Durrell

» “Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.”
– Meister Eckhart

» “All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.”
– Albert Einstein

» “Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
– Albert Einstein

» “If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”
– Albert Einstein

» “The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
– Albert Einstein

» “Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.”
– Albert Einstein

» “Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

» “The greater the truth the greater the libel.”
– Lord Ellenborough

» “All necessary truth is its own evidence.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Every mind has a choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.-”
– Yumus Emre

» “A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.”
– Epictetus

» “The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
– Epictetus

» “The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.”
– Eliza Farnham

» “If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.”
– Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

» “The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.”
– Frederick II

» “The truth simply is that’s all. It doesn’t need reasons: it doesn’t have to be right: it’s just the truth. Period.”
– Frederick Carl Frieseke

» “Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and… it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”
– Robert Frost

» “Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.”
– Max Fuller

» “Seeing is believing, but feeling’s the truth.”
– Thomas Fuller

» “Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.”
– Thomas Fuller

» “The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

» “There is no god higher than truth.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

» “Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

» “Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

» “Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

» “Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.”
– Katherine F. Gerould

» “Say not, ”I have found the truth,” but rather, ”I have found a truth.”
– Kahlil Gibran

» “Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.”
– Andre Gide

» “It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.”
– Samuel Goldwyn

» “I don’t want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs.”
– Samuel Goldwyn

» “Truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.”
– Nadine Gordimer

» “What is, is; and what ain’t, ain’t”
– Joseph E. Granville

» “You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.”
– Edgar A. Guest

» “Truth is not determined by majority vote.”
– Doug Gwyn

» “True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.”
– Edward F. Halifax

» “Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.”
– Calvin S. Hall

» “Truth is like a torch; the more it is shook it shines.”
– Sir William Hamilton

» “The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.”
– J. C. Hare

» “The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin — and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.”
– Vaclav Havel

» “I’m going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.”
– S. I. Hayakawa

» “Truth is a torch that shines through the fog without dispelling it.”
РClaude A. Helv̩tius

» “There’s no one thing that is true. They’re all true.”
– Ernest Hemingway

» “I know now that there is no one thing that is true — it is all true.”
– Ernest Hemingway

» “Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.”
– Frank Herbert

» “We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.”
– Hesiod

» “The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.”
– Hermann Hesse

» “The truth is lived, not taught.”
– Hermann Hesse

» “Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.”
– Napoleon Hill

» “All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.”
– Napoleon Hill

» “A new untruth is better than an old truth.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

» “Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

» “Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

» “Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

» “Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.”
– Vernon Howard

» “Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.”
– Vernon Howard

» “Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.”
– Edgar Watson Howe

» “The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don’t wait or a moment, or you’ll lose your head.”
– Hsueh-Dou

» “Live truth instead of professing it.”
– Elbert Hubbard

» “We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.”
– King Hussein

» “Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.”
– Aldous Huxley

» “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”
– Aldous Huxley

» “Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.”
– Thomas H. Huxley

» “It is the fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end and superstitions.”
– Thomas H. Huxley

» “We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.”
– William James

» “For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead…”
– Thomas Jefferson

» “It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
– Thomas Jefferson

» “The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.”
– Thomas Jefferson

» “In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.”
– Douglas William Jerrold

» “What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.”
– Joseph Joubert

» “What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.”
– John Keats

» “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived, and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.”
– John F. Kennedy

» “No matter what you believe, it doesn’t change the facts.”
– Al Kersha

» “A hair divides what is false and true.”
– Omar Khayyam

» “The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.”
– Charles Lamb

» “Never lie when the truth is more profitable.”
– Stanislaw J. Lec

» “All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
– Bruce Lee

» “There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.”
– John Lennon

» “The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event.”
– C. S. Lewis

» “Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.”
– Liebig

» “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.”
– Abraham Lincoln

» “Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.”
– Abraham Lincoln

» “Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

» “One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.”
– John Locke

» “The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.”
– Albert Low

» “Those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it Confucius All truth is safe and nothing else is safe, but he who keeps back truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal.”
– James Russell Lowell

» “Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.”
– James Russell Lowell

» “Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.”
– James Russell Lowell

» “Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.”
– Martin Luther

» “Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.”
– Martin Luther

» “The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.”
– Russell Lynes

» “Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.”
– Malcolm X

» “We do not condemn the preachers as an individual but we condemn what they teach. We urge that the preachers teach the truth, to teach our people the one important guiding rule of conduct — unity of purpose.”
– Malcolm X

» “Always tell the truth — it’s the easiest thing to remember.”
– David Mamet

» “If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.”
– Horace Mann

» “Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.”
– Horace Mann

» “Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.”
– Mencius Mengzi Meng-tse

» “I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.”
– H. L. Mencken

» “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

» “We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.”
– David Merzel

» “Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth.”
– Owen C. Middleton

» “The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.”
– John Stuart Mill

» “I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.”
– Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

» “No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.”
– John Pierpont Morgan

» “Truth and virtue conquer.”
– Motto

» “Most truths are so naked that people feel sorry for them and cover them up, at least a little bit.”
– Edward R. Murrow

» “Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

» “The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

» “Truth is something which can’t be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.”
– Anais Nin

» “Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.”
– Frank Norris

» “there is no such thing as a harmless truth.”
– Gregory Nunn

» “It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.”
– Austin O’Malley

» “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
– Mal Pancoast

» “Telling someone the truth is a loving act.”
– Mal Pancoast

» “Those are weaklings who know the truth and uphold it as long as it suits their purpose, and then abandon it.”
– Blaise Pascal

» “Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.”
– William Penn

» “I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.”
– Peace Pilgrim

» “Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.”
– Pindar

» “It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I’m looking for the truth. and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
– Robert M. Pirsig

» “The solutions all are simple — after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.”
– Robert M. Pirsig

» “The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I’m looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.”
– Robert M. Pirsig

» “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
– Max Planck

» “They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.”
– Plato

» “Truth is its own reward.”
– Plato

» “A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.”
– George D. Prentice

» “Tell the truth and then run.”
– Proverb

» “Time tries truth.”
– Proverb

» “Truth fears nothing but concealment.”
– Proverb

» “Truth is the daughter of time.”
– Proverb

» “Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood.”
– Danish Proverb

» “A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.”
– Greek Proverb

» “It is the truth that irritates a person.”
– Spanish Proverb

» “If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.”
– Turkish Proverb

» “A half truth is a whole lie.”
– Yiddish Proverb

» “The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.”
– Pasquier Quesnel

» “Tell the truth and shame the devil.”
РFran̤ois Rabelais

» “You’ll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don’t have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.”
– Sam Rayburn

» “Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.”
– Jules Renard

» “Truth is reality.”
– Mary Caroline Richards

» “Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.”
– R. Scott Richards

» “True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time.”
– Jean Paul Richter

» “People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.”
– Robert J. Ringer

» “If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.”
– Will Rogers

» “The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

» “Are you going out after the truth, or are you going out after something you believe?”
– Richard D. Rosen

» “Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.”
– Jean Rostand

» “Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.”
– Leo Rosten

» “Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau

» “Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau

» “There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.”
– Margaret Lee Runbeck

» “The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.”
– Utterly Russell

» “Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.”
– Sabbah

» “The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.”
– William Saroyan

» “Truth lives on in the midst of deception.”
– Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

» “Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

» “Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now — always.”
– Albert Schweitzer

» “The fact, if they are there, speak for themselves.”
– David Seabury

» “What is true belongs to me!”
– Seneca

» “The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music.”
– Lord Shaftesbury

» “While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.”
– William Shakespeare

» “All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “Life’s experiences are intended to make you eventually face yourself. Face reality!”
– Harold Sherman

» “The knowledge of truth, combined with the proper regard for it and it’s faithful observance, constitutes true education.”
– Joseph F. Smith

» “When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, ”That is the real thing.””
– Ralph W. Sockman

» “When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.”
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn

» “Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.”
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn

» “The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.”
– Susan Sontag

» “Truth is always the strongest argument.”
– Sophocles

» “People deserve… the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it’s essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.”
– Bruce Springsteen

» “Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
– Wallace Stevens

» “The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

» “Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.”
– W. Clement Stone

» “One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.”
– Lionel Strachey

» “What is true is true, and what is false is false…”
– Emanuel Swedenborg

» “A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.”
– Lord Alfred Tennyson

» “Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”
– Margaret Thatcher

» “I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
– Hunter S. Thompson

» “Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “It takes two to speak truth — one to speak, and another to hear.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “If truth is beauty, then how come no one has their hair done in a library?”
– Lily Tomlin

» “I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”
– Harry S. Truman

» “Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.”
– Harry S. Truman

» “We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.”
– Harry S. Truman

» “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
– Mark Twain

» “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
– Mark Twain

» “Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.”
– Mark Twain

» “No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.”
– Mark Twain

» “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
– Mark Twain

» “I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.”
– Mark Twain

» “Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.”
– Mark Twain

» “Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.”
– Source Unknown

» “Truth comes only to a prepared mind.”
– Source Unknown

» “The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.”
– Source Unknown

» “The TRUTH: It may not lead you to where you thought you were going, but it will always lead you somewhere better. When ignored, it will eventually show itself. The closeness of your relationships is directly proportional to the degree to which you have revealed the truth about yourself. It can be painful.”
– Source Unknown

» “The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.”
– Source Unknown

» “I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.”
– Source Unknown

» “Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.”
– Source Unknown

» “Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.”
– Source Unknown

» “Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.”
– Source Unknown

» “When in doubt, tell the truth.”
– Source Unknown

» “Just because you can laugh doesn’t mean you can’t tell the truth. Truth is often the jester.”
– Source Unknown

» “Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.”
– Paul Valery

» “To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.”
– Voltaire

» “Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.”
– Voltaire

» “To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.”
– Hellmut Walters

» “Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”
– Alan W. Watts

» “In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself — only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.”
– Simone Weil

» “I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.”
– Jessamyn West

» “As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, ”What is truth?””
– Richard Whately

» “Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.”
– Richard Whately

» “What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.”
– Alfred North Whitehead

» “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.”
– Walt Whitman

» “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.”
– Billy Wilder

» “One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

» “Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.”
– Virginia Woolf

» “The truth is more important than the facts.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright

» “If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.”
– Orville Wright

» “Truth is exact correspondence with reality.”
– Paramahansa Yogananda

» “The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.”
– Emile Zola

» “If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”
– Emile Zola

» “Truth does not contradict truth.”
– Elizer Zvi Zweifel

» “I cannot afford to waste my time making money.”
– Louis Agassiz

» “Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence — neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish — it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children’s hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe.”
– Maya Angelou

» “He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.”
– John Arthorne

» “Time is the measure of business.”
– Francis Bacon

» “To choose time is to save time.”
– Francis Bacon

» “Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.”
– Faith Baldwin

» “The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray’s Anatomy.”
– J. G. Ballard

» “We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.”
– Charles Baudelaire

» “A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?”
– Henry Ward Beecher

» “The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

» “We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

» “The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.”
– Arnold Bennett

» “You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of un-manufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.”
– Arnold Bennett

» “We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.”
– Thomas A. Bennett

» “Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.”
– John Berger

» “There’s never enough time to do it right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.”
– Jack Bergman

» “Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
– Hector Louis Berlioz

» “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. [Ecclesiastes 3:1]“
– Bible

» “Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.”
– Josh Billings

» “You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”
– Charles Bixton

» “The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.”
– William Blake

» “A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.”
– William Frederick Book

» “I am definitely going to take a course on time management… just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.”
– Louis E. Boone

» “Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.”
– Daniel J. Boorstin

» “Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.”
– Jorge Luis Borges

» “Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.”
– Arthur Brisbane

» “I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.”
– John Mason Brown

» “Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.”
– Leo Buscaglia

» “You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.”
– Charles Buxton

» “Oh Time! the beautifier of the dead, adorer of the ruin, comforter and only healer when the heart hath bled… Time, the avenger!”
– Lord Byron

» “If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.”
– Thomas Carlyle

» “The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it.”
– Thomas Carlyle

» “There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time.”
– Coco Chanel

» “Time and tide wait for no man.”
– Geoffrey Chaucer

» “I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.”
– Lord Chesterfield

» “Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.”
– Lord Chesterfield

» “The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.”
– Lord Chesterfield

» “If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.”
– Winston Churchill

» “Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.”
– Marcus T. Cicero

» “Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

» “Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

» “Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.”
– Stephen R. Covey

» “We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.”
– Stephen R. Covey

» “Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.”
– Abraham Cowley

» “Time stays long enough for those who use it.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci

» “Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.”
– Frank Dane

» “A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.”
– Charles Darwin

» “A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.”
– Charles Dickens

» “Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
– Laertius Diogenes

» “Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
– Austin Dobson

» “One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.”
– Norman Douglas

» “Everything requires time. It is the only truly universal condition. All work takes place in time and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable, and necessary resource. Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.”
– Peter F. Drucker

» “One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday’s time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.”
– Peter F. Drucker

» “Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed”
– Peter F. Drucker

» “Until we can manage TIME, we can manage nothing else.”
– Peter F. Drucker

» “Time is the most valuable coin in your life. You and you alone will determine how that coin will be spent. Be careful that you don’t let other people spend it for you.”
– John Dryden

» “The best way to fill time is to waste it.”
– Marguerite Duras

» “Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.”
– Henry Van Dyke

» “Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.”
– Meister Eckhart

» “When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — then it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity!”
– Albert Einstein

» “All my possessions for a moment of time.”
– Queen Elizabeth

» “One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person’s genius is confined to a very few hours.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “The surest poison is time.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.”
– Ted W. Engstrom

» “What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?”
– Ted W. Engstrom

» “Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.”
– Euripides

» “The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.”
– Franklin Field

» “I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
– Ian Fleming

» “Longevity conquers scandal every time.”
– Shelby Foote

» “It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”
– Henry Ford

» “Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “He that rises late must trot all day.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “Modern man thinks he loses something – time – when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains — except kill it.”
– Erich Fromm

» “Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.”
– Robert Frost

» “The biggest difference between time and space is that you can’t reuse time.”
– Merrick Furst

» “Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.”
– Harold S. Geneen

» “Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.”
– George Robert Gissing

» “We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “All time management begins with planning.”
– Tom Greening

» “Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn’t let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.”
– Andrew Grove

» “No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.”
– Robert Half

» “Time spent on hiring is time well spent.”
– Robert Half

» “Misspending a man’s time is a kind of self-homicide.”
– Edward F. Halifax

» “Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.”
– Lucille S. Harper

» “Time is the rider that breaks youth.”
– George Herbert

» “City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind’s eye the notion of a better life ahead.”
– Edward Hoagland

» “Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?”
– Ralph Hodgson

» “Make a good use of the present.”
– Horace

» “When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.”
– Edgar Watson Howe

» “What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.”
– John Howe

» “He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.”
– Victor Hugo

» “We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, ”We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.””
– Charles E. Hummel

» “Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.”
– Thomas H. Huxley

» “If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.”
– Lee Iacocca

» “Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson

» “O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!”
– Ben Jonson

» “The idea is to make decisions and act on them — to decide what is important to accomplish, to decide how something can best be accomplished, to find time to work at it and to get it done.”
– Karen Kakascik

» “We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.”
– John F. Kennedy

» “We must use time creatively — and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

» “Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker”
– Jean De La Bruyere

» “Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.”
– Alan Lakein

» “In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.”
– Alan Lakein

» “Review our priorities, ask the question; What’s the best use of our time right now?”
– Alan Lakein

» “Be intent on the perfection of the present day.”
– William Law

» “Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don’t worry if you don’t complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.”
– Ivy Lee

» “We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.”
– Max Lerner

» “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.”
– Samuel Levenson

» “People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.”
– Georg 1300 Lichtenberg

» “Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.”
– Abraham Lincoln

» “One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man’s greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.”
– P. W. Litchfield

» “How many times have you heard this statement, I haven’t time. How many times have we made it ourselves? oh, I wish I had time. Time for what? Time to work in the Church, to serve in our communities and time to improve our minds. Think again of these twenty-four hours that are given to us.”
– John Longden

» “Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

» “Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.”
– Amy Lowell

» “In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.”
– Sir John Lubbock

» “Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.”
– Horace Mann

» “Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.”
– Horace Mann

» “When we are doing what we love, we don’t care about time. For at least at that moment, time doesn’t exist and we are truly free.”
– Wieder Marcia

» “It’s how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.”
– Wieder Marcia

» “But at my back I always hear time’s winged chariot hurrying near.”
– Andrew Marvell

» “No man goes before his time — unless the boss leaves early.”
– Groucho Marx

» “We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.”
– Karl Marx

» “If you haven’t got the time to do it right, when will you find the time to do it over?”
– Jeffery J. Mayer

» “While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.”
– Carson Mccullers

» “Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.”
– Robert J. Mckain

» “For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.”
– Marshall Mcluhan

» “I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.”
– Golda Meir

» “Time stays, we go.”
– H. L. Mencken

» “Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.”
– Charles De Montesquieu

» “The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.”
– Mike Murdock

» “Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.”
– Jawaharlal Nehru

» “When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

» “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.”
– Robert Orben

» “Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”
– Thomas Otway

» “Time is the devourer of all things.”
– Ovid

» “Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.”
– Ovid

» “Nothing is swifter than our years.”
– Ovid

» “Time glides away and as we get older through the noiseless years; the days flee and are restrained by no reign.”
– Ovid

» “We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.”
– Octavio Paz

» “Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.”
– Pericles

» “Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.”
– Pericles

» “Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind.”
– Pitman

» “Time is the wisest of all counselors.”
– Plutarch

» “The longest day soon comes to an end.”
– Proverb

» “Lost time is never found again.”
– Proverb

» “Now is the watchword of the wise.”
– Proverb

» “Soon enough is well enough.”
– Proverb

» “It is later than you think.”
– Chinese Proverb

» “An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.”
– Chinese Proverb

» “There is but an hour a day between a good housewife and a bad one.”
– English Proverb

» “Time is the soul of business.”
– English Proverb

» “Why kill time when one can employ it.”
– French Proverb

» “Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.”
– French Proverb

» “Life is half spent before one knows what it is.”
– French Proverb

» “Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.”
– French Proverb

» “Monday is the key day of the week.”
– Gaelic Proverb

» “The morning hour has gold in its mouth.”
– German Proverb

» “Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.”
– Polish Proverb

» “Time and I against any two.”
– Spanish Proverb

» “You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.”
– Bonnie Prudden

» “One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.”
– Nido Qubein

» “Time is the fairest and toughest judge.”
– Edgar Quinet

» “The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.”
– Jane Bryant Quinn

» “Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.”
– John Randolph

» “Make time for getting big tasks done every day, Plan your daily work load in advance. Single out the relatively few small jobs that absolutely must be done immediately in the morning. Then go directly to the big task, try to pursue them to completion.”
– Boardroom Reports

» “Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.”
– Charles Richards

» “There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force it’s sap and stands confident in the storms of Spring without the fear that after them may come no Summer. It does come. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful…”
– Rainer Maria Rilke

» “Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year — and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”
– Anthony Robbins

» “Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.”
– Will Rogers

» “Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.”
– Jim Rohn

» “never before have we had so little time in which to do so much.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

» “American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.”
– Harold Rosenberg

» “A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.”
– Bertrand Russell

» “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
– Bertrand Russell

» “Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”
– Carl Sandburg

» “Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.”
– Richard Ben Sapir

» “Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre

» “Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.”
– Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

» “Time is that in which all things pass away.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

» “Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.”
– Delmore Schwartz

» “Time discovered truth.”
– Seneca

» “The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.”
– Seneca

» “And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.”
– William Shakespeare

» “O, call back yesterday, bid time return.”
– William Shakespeare

» “Wasted time means wasted lives.”
– R. Shannon

» “When the time is right, you just got to do it.”
– Jack Simplot

» “Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.”
– Samuel Smiles

» “Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.”
– Herbert Spencer

» “Time is the only critic without ambition.”
– John Steinbeck

» “Come on, Come on, and there’ll be no turning back. You were only killing time and it can kill you right back Come on, Come on, its time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.”
– Jim Steinman

» “The longest day must have its close –the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

» “The key to setting priorities, the order in which you must accomplish things, is to ask yourself, ”What is my payoff in doing this activity? How does this fit in with my long-term objectives?””
– Success Magazine

» “Don’t serve time, make time serve you”
– William Sutton

» “Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and division make barren our lives.”
– A. C. Swinburne

» “If, before going to bed every night, you will tear a page from the calendar, and remark, ”there goes another day of my life, never to return,” you will become time conscious.”
– A. B. Zu Tavern

» “Time will take your money, but money won’t buy time.”
– James Taylor

» “A day may sink or save a realm.”
– Lord Alfred Tennyson

» “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It’s thin current slides away, but eternity remains.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “Is what I’m doing or about to do getting us closer to our objective?”
– Robert Townsend

» “Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.”
– Brian Tracy

» “When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.”
– Henry Twells

» “One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time”
– Source Unknown

» “A man’s main job is to become supremely aware of and intimately involved in the great issues of his time”
– Source Unknown

» “A person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it is, pockets your watch, and then sends you a bill for it.”
– Source Unknown

» “An alarm clock is a device that makes you rise and whine.”
– Source Unknown

» “Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn’t buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Remember, you must”
– Source Unknown

» “Everything in this life takes longer than you think except life itself.”
– Source Unknown

» “Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.”
– Source Unknown

» “I am what you will be, I was what you are.”
– Source Unknown

» “The woman who says she won’t be a minute is usually right.”
– Source Unknown

» “Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often expressed as a relative priority, indicating that the user doesn’t care when the work is completed so long as he is treated less badly than someone else.”
– Source Unknown

» “The infinite is in the finite of every instant.”
– Source Unknown

» “Time cuts down all, both great and small.”
– Source Unknown

» “Time is nature’s way of making sure that everything doesn’t happen at once.”
– Source Unknown

» “Time spent in getting even would be better spent in getting ahead.”
– Source Unknown

» “To save time is to lengthen life.”
– Source Unknown

» “What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.”
– Source Unknown

» “You love what you find time to do.”
– Source Unknown

» “He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.”
– Source Unknown

» “Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.”
– Source Unknown

» “To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.”
– Robert Updegraff

» “You are not born for fame if you don’t know the value of time.”
– Marquis De Vauvenargues

» “Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.”
– Denis Waitley

» “People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.”
– John Wanamaker

» “Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can’t refuse it. Didn’t seek it, didn’t choose it. But it’s up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.”
– Christine Warren

» “I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.”
– H.G. Wells

» “Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.”
– Walt Whitman

» “Time is waste of money.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.”
– Thornton Wilder

» “For time is the longest distance between two places.”
– Tennessee Williams

» “Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.”
– Tennessee Williams

» “In politics a week is a very long time.”
– Harold Wilson

» “We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we’re in the present, but we aren’t. The present we know is only a movie of the past.”
– Thomas Wolfe

» “The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.”
– William Butler Yeats

» “Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
– Frank Zappa

» “Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.”
– Amos Bronson Alcott

» “You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”
– James Allen

» “Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.”
– James Allen

» “A man is literally what he thinks”
– James Allen

» “All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.”
– James Allen

» “Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel

» “It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.”
– Hans Christian Anderson

» “Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked what’s on our mind, we are less likely to mention being aware of the world around us, and more likely to mention our inner reflections. But we are less likely to mention thinking about other people.”
– Elaine N. Aron

» “You live with your thoughts — so be careful what they are.”
– Eva Arrington

» “Thoughts of themselves have no substance; let them arise and pass away unheeded. Thoughts will not take form of themselves, unless they are grasped by the attention; if they are ignored, there will be no appearing and no disappearing.”
– Ashvaghosha

» “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.”
– Marcus Aurelius

» “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
– Marcus Aurelius

» “In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.”
– Francis Bacon

» “No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.”
– Bernard M. Baruch

» “If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening.”
– George Barzan

» “No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.”
– Baudjuin

» “The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.”
– Jean Baudrillard

» “He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.”
– Jeremy Bentham

» “A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.”
– Georges Bernanos

» “Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever, is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on these things. [Philippians 4:8]“
– Bible

» “Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.”
– Ambrose Bierce

» “One thought fills immensity.”
– William Blake

» “Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.”
– Niels Bohr

» “One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.”
– Paul Bourget

» “The busiest of living agents are certain dead men’s thoughts.”
– Christian Nevell Bovee

» “Learn to think like a winner. Think positive and visualize your strengths.”
– Vic Braden

» “Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.”
– Claude M. Bristol

» “Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.”
– Anita Brookner

» “As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.”
– Buddha

» “What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.”
– Buddha

» “We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world.”
– Buddha

» “Let the wise guard their thoughts, which are difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and wander at will. Thought which is well guarded is the bearer of happiness.”
– Buddha

» “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”
– Buddha

» “We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.”
– Buddha

» “There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.”
– Samuel Butler

» “I am not what I think. I am thinking what I think.”
– Eric Butterworth

» “For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.”
– Lord Byron

» “The power of thought, the magic of the mind.”
– Lord Byron

» “Thought is the parent of the deed.”
– Thomas Carlyle

» “Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, –till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.”
– Thomas Carlyle

» “Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.”
– John Jay Chapman

» “There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.”
– John Jay Chapman

» “Man is what he believes.”
– Anton Chekhov

» “How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

» “To think is to practice brain chemistry.”
– Deepak Chopra

» “If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
– Marcus T. Cicero

» “I thought so hard I got a headache.”
– J.D. Cobb

» “He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

» “Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.”
– Confucius

» “We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.”
– Norman Cousins

» “I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why thunder lasts longer than that which causes it, and why immediately on its creation the lightning becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci

» “Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”
– Rene Descartes

» “I think therefore I am.”
– Rene Descartes

» “The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think — rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.”
– John Dewey

» “Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “Far more numerous are those as such; who think to little and talk to much.”
– John Dryden

» “The problem with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than their minds.”
– Walter Duranty

» “There is a big difference between thinking: I’m in a relationship and something’s wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I’m in a relationship and we’ve got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.”
– Wayne Dyer

» “I think and that is all that I am.”
– Wayne Dyer

» “It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.”
– Thomas A. Edison

» “There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.”
– Thomas A. Edison

» “We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.”
– Albert Einstein

» “Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.”
– George Eliot

» “Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children. All profound affection entertains a sacrifice. Our thoughts are often worse than we are, just as they are often better.”
– George Eliot

» “Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.”
– Havelock Ellis

» “Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we can remove ourselves from our senses and experience the world even less directly. We can think about our life, rather than thinking in our life. We can think about what we think about our life, and we can think about what we think about that. We can shift perceptual positions many times over.”
– John J. Emerick

» “The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “We are ashamed of our thoughts and often see them brought forth by others.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “To think is to act.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Thought makes every thing fit for use.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he obeys, which is the idea after which all his facts are classified. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “If a man sits down to think, he is immediately asked if has a headache.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “A man’s what he thinks about all day long”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.”
– Frederick W. Faber

» “Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not sincere. God will regard your thoughts; for thoughts are heard in heaven. If you willingly sin in thought; if you are base and guilty there; because you think that no eye will see your thoughts; the guilt and baseness will sooner or later break into the outlets of word and deed — from thought to wish — from wish to purpose — from purpose to word — from word to act — from act to habit — from delight in the imagination to consent in the will — from deed to repeated transgression; such is the genesis of sin.”
– Frederick Farrar

» “Either you think — or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

» “The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.”
– Paul Fix

» “Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one’s balance.”
– Lenore Fleischer

» “If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.”
– Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

» “Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes

» “How can I know what I think till I see what I say?”
– Edward M. Forster

» “Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.”
– Fredrich

» “What was once thought can never be unthought.”
– Carl J. Friedrich

» “Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.”
– Robert Frost

» “It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.”
– Northrop Frye

» “Thought is, perhaps, the forerunner and even the mother of ideas, and ideas are the most powerful and the most useful things in the world.”
– George Gardner

» “We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.”
– Jose Ortega Y Gasset

» “Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “It was at a particular moment in the history of my own rages that I saw the Western world conditioned by the images of Marx, Darwin and Freud; and Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western world. The simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.”
– William Golding

» “Those that think must govern those that toil.”
– Oliver Goldsmith

» “If I look confused it is because I am thinking.”
– Samuel Goldwyn

» “Thought would destroy their paradise.”
– Thomas Gray

» “A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.”
– Edward F. Halifax

» “In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.”
– Robert Hall

» “Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.”
– David Hare

» “How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it — you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.”
– Franco Harris

» “Every thought we think is creating our future.”
– Louise L. Hay

» “Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.”
– William Hazlitt

» “There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.”
– Robert Henri

» “Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.”
– Napoleon Hill

» “Carve every word before you let it fall.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

» “Little-minded people’s thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

» “The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

» “Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

» “Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.”
– Jenny Holzer

» “Life is good when we think it’s good. Life is bad when we don’t think.”
– Doug Horton

» “The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.”
– Doug Horton

» “Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.”
– Doug Horton

» “Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.”
– Doug Horton

» “Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.”
– Doug Horton

» “Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.”
– Victor Hugo

» “Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
– David Hume

» “Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”
– Aldous Huxley

» “Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.”
– Aldous Huxley

» “Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.”
– Julian S. Huxley

» “Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?”
– Henry James

» “Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.”
– William James

» “The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.”
– Thomas Jefferson

» “He that never thinks can never be wise.”
– Johnson

» “All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.”
– Immanuel Kant

» “Intelligence must follow faith, never precede it. and never destroy it.”
РThomas ̣ Kempis

» “In America we can say what we think, and even if we can’t think, we can say it anyhow.”
– Charles F. Kettering

» “Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.”
– Charles F. Kettering

» “Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

» “Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

» “My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.”
– Walter Savage Landor

» “When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.”
– Isidore Ducasse, Comte De Lautreamont

» “Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don’t bite everybody.”
– Stanislaw J. Lec

» “As you think, so shall you become.”
– Bruce Lee

» “Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.”
– Georg C. Lichtenberg

» “When I’m getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.”
– Abraham Lincoln

» “Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.”
– Walter Lippmann

» “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
– John Locke

» “Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

» “Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over other animals is the ability to think. It is primarily our ability to think that sets us apart from other animals.”
– Harry Lorayne

» “The average person thinks he isn’t.”
– Larry Lorenzoni

» “I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.”
– Clare Boothe Luce

» “An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.”
– Charles Mackay

» “The birthplace of success for each person is in his Inner-Consciousness. The Inner-Consciousness will use whatever it is given. If constructive thoughts are planted positive outcomes will be the result. Plant the seeds of failure and failure will follow.”
– Sidney Madwed

» “Thinking and Thought: Thoughts are funny little things, They can make paupers or make kings.”
– Sidney Madwed

» “If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one’s way through before regaining one’s original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.”
– Ramana Maharshi

» “You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.”
– Ramana Maharshi

» “Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life’s blueprint. Smile!”
– Og Mandino

» “If you make people think they’re thinking they’ll love you: but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.”
– Don Marquis

» “I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.”
– Steve Martin

» “No brain is stronger than its weakest think.”
– Thomas L. Masson

» “It’s only a thought, and a thought can be changed.”
– Louise May

» “I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.”
– Wilson Mizner

» “When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”
– Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

» “Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.”
– Eugenio Montale

» “The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.”
– Joseph Edward Murphy

» “No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.”
– George Jean Nathan

» “If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.”
– Sir Isaac Newton

» “Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations — always darker, emptier, simpler than these.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

» “When we talk in company we lose our unique tone of voice, and this leads us to make statements which is no way correspond to our real thoughts.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

» “Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

» “What’s going on in the inside shows on the outside.”
– Earl Nightingale

» “You become what you think about.”
– Earl Nightingale

» “A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
– Thomas Paine

» “When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.”
– Thomas Paine

» “Thinking is heavily endorsed.”
– Mal Pancoast

» “All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.”
– Charles H. Parkhurst

» “Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.”
– Blaise Pascal

» “If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.”
– Blaise Pascal

» “Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.”
– Blaise Pascal

» “Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapor, a drop of water is enough to kill him. But even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows nothing of this.”
– Blaise Pascal

» “If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking.”
– George S. Patton

» “Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.”
– Octavio Paz

» “The ”how” thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ”ifs.””
– Norman Vincent Peale

» “The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

» “There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? If they have not, there is something wrong with them — so keep seeking! If what you do has brought you inner peace, stay with what you believe is right.”
– Peace Pilgrim

» “Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.”
– Plato

» “When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.”
– Huang Po

» “That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.”
– Edgar Allan Poe

» “Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.”
– Chinese Proverb

» “A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.”
– Italian Proverb

» “Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.”
– Francis Quarles

» “The thought pattern characteristic of the right brain lends itself to the formation of original ideas, insights, discoveries. We might describe it as the kind of thought prevalent in early childhood, when everything is new and everything has meaning. If you have ever walked along a beach and suddenly stopped to pick up a piece of driftwood because it looked to you like a leaping impala or a troll, you know the feeling of pleasure that comes from the sudden recognition of a form. Your Design mind (right brain) has perceived connections and had made a pattern of meaning. It takes logical, rational acts and facts of the world you know, the snippets of your experience, the bits and pieces of your language capabilities, and perceives connections, patterns, and relationships in them.”
– Gabriele Lusser Rico

» “Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through my conscious thoughts.”
– Anthony Robbins

» “We find it hard to believe that other people’s thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.”
– James H. Robinson

» “To reflect is to disturb one’s thoughts.”
– Jean Rostand

» “When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.”
– Salman Rushdie

» “Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.”
– Bertrand Russell

» “Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth more than ruin more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.”
– Bertrand Russell

» “Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.”
– Bertrand Russell

» “Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.”
– Bertrand Russell

» “All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.”
– George Santayana

» “The birth of thought in the depths of the spirit, the shaping and ordering of it into periods, the translation into signs, and above all the transference of it from one spirit to another, the communication that is, if only for an instant, the meeting of two beings, with the unforeseeable consequences that such a meeting always causes, is in fact a miracle; except that the moment one stops to think about it one can’t even write a letter.”
– Salvatore Satta

» “It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.”
– Robert H. Schuller

» “Think success, don’t think failure. At work, in your home, substitute success thinking for failure thinking. When you face a difficult situation, think, ”I’ll win,” not ”I’ll probably lose.” When you compete with someone else, think, ”I’m equal to the best,” not ”I’m out-classed.” When opportunity appears, think ”I can do it,” never ”I can’t. Let the master thought ”I-will-succeed” dominate your thinking process. Thinking success conditions your mind to create plans that produce success. Thinking failure does the exact opposite. Failure thinking conditions the mind to think other thoughts that produce failure.”
– David J. Schwartz

» “Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.”
– Thomas Secker

» “There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
– William Shakespeare

» “Thought is free.”
– William Shakespeare

» “Make not your thoughts you prisons.”
– William Shakespeare

» “Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “What stops people in their tracks is a small mental packet of energy. It is called a thought. They think ”I can’t.””
– Rex Steven Sikes

» “To find yourself, think for yourself.”
– Socrates

» “Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you.”
– Bishop Steere

» “Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.”
– Wallace Stevens

» “Arouse the mind without resting it on anything.”
– Diamond Sutra

» “A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.”
– Isaac Taylor

» “Thoughts have power; thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.”
– Susan Taylor

» “I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.”
– Sara Teasdale

» “Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.”
– Lord Alfred Tennyson

» “Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.”
– Thales of Miletus

» “Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.”
– Count Leo Tolstoy

» “Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.”
– Ralph Waldo Trine

» “Thoughts are forces.”
– Ralph Waldo Trine

» “Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.”
– Mark Twain

» “We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.”
– Mark Twain

» “Thought is made in the mouth.”
– Tristan Tzara

» “The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.”
– Source Unknown

» “Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.”
– Source Unknown

» “To know the true reality of yourself, you must be aware not only of your conscious thoughts, but also of your unconscious prejudices, bias and habits.”
– Source Unknown

» “Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.”
– Source Unknown

» “Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.”
– Source Unknown

» “Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.”
– Source Unknown

» “Think twice before you speak, then say it to yourself first.”
– Source Unknown

» “A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.”
– Source Unknown

» “Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.”
– Source Unknown

» “When someone you greatly admire and respect appears to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch.”
– Source Unknown

» “The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.”
– Source Unknown

» “Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.”
– Source Unknown

» “Some people study all their life, and at death they have learned everything except how to think.”
– Source Unknown

» “Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.”
– Source Unknown

» “No man can ever be greater than his loftiest thoughts.”
– Source Unknown

» “Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples don’t count on harvesting golden Delicious .”
– Source Unknown

» “Think then act safely.”
– Source Unknown

» “A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.”
– Paul Valery

» “All grand thoughts come from the heart.”
– Marquis De Vauvenargues

» “Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.”
– Marquis De Vauvenargues

» “Great thoughts always come from the heart.”
– Marquis De Vauvenargues

» “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”
– Swami Vivekananda

» “They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.”
– Voltaire

» “THINK. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.”
– Thomas J. Watson

» “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking.”
– Alfred North Whitehead

» “We think in generalities, but we live in detail.”
– Alfred North Whitehead

» “Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.”
– Oprah Winfrey

» “A man’s thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

» “In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

» “We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on”
– Virginia Woolf

» “To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
– Eva Young

» “We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.”
– Amos Bronson Alcott

» “If at first you don’t succeed; you are running about average.”
– M. H. Alderson

» “For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?”
– James Allen

» “Eighty percent of success is showing up.”
– Woody Allen

» “It’s simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do.”
– John R. Amos

» “Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.”
– Sparky Anderson

» “You are wholly complete and your success in life will be in direct proportion to your ability to accept this truth about you.”
– Dr. Robert Anthony

» “We fall forward to succeed.”
– Mary Kay Ash

» “Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.”
– Arthur Ashe

» “Success, or failure, very often arrives on wings that seem mysterious to us.”
– Dr. Marcus Bach

» “Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.”
– Jim Backus

» “If at first you don’t succeed, try to hide your astonishment.”
– Harry F. Banks

» “Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
– Bernard M. Baruch

» “Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.”
– Vicki Baum

» “Character is more important than intelligence for success.”
– Gilberte Beaux

» “Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

» “To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

» “Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

» “The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion. It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider — and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation — persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

» “The toughest thing about being a success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success.”
– Irving Berlin

» “Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.”
– Al Bernstein

» “The measure of a man’s success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.”
– Sir Walter Besant

» “Success is the one unpardonable sin against one’s fellows.”
– Ambrose Bierce

» “As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.”
– Josh Billings

» “Too often the shortcut, the line of least resistance, is responsible for evanescent and unsatisfactory success.”
– Louis Binstock

» “Very often we are our own worst enemy as we foolishly build stumbling blocks on the path that leads to success and happiness.”
– Louis Binstock

» “When all is said and done, success without happiness is the worst kind of failure.”
– Louis Binstock

» “Success doesn’t mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.”
– Edwin C. Bliss

» “A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.”
– Edward William Bok

» “Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.”
– Erma Bombeck

» “The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed.”
– Nelson Boswell

» “My definition of success is control.”
– Kenneth Branagh

» “To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail.”
– Dorothea Brande

» “Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”
– Dr. Joyce Brothers

» “Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.”
– Charles Browder

» “Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.”
– Bob Brown

» “I hope I have convinced you — the only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren’t is the willingness to work very, very hard.”
– Helen Gurley Brown

» “A minute’s success pays the failure of years.”
– Robert Browning

» “The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.”
– Pearl S. Buck

» “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”
– Warren Buffett

» “The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

» “Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people — your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.”
– Barbara Bush

» “Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.”
– Sarah Caldwell

» “It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.”
– Eddie Cantor

» “If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.”
– Thomas Carlyle

» “The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”
– Dale Carnegie

» “My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.”
– Johnny Carson

» “There is no fate that plans men’s lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.”
– Herbert N. Casson

» “Success makes success, like money makes money.”
– Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

» “One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.”
– Anton Chekhov

» “Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
– Winston Churchill

» “Behind every successful man you’ll find a woman who has nothing to wear.”
– Harold Coffin

» “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out…”
– Robert Collier

» “Success doesn’t come to you… you go to it.”
– Marva Collins

» “When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

» “To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports; when we succeed; it betrays us.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

» “No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.”
– Russel H. Conwell

» “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
– Bill Cosby

» “I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.”
– Walter Cronkite

» “It’s the men behind who ”make” the man ahead.”
– Merle Crowell

» “Success is not something I’ve wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that’s true, big-time success. If not, it’s much ado about nothing. [On the prospects for his 1997 movies The Rainmaker and Good Will Hunting]“
– Matt Damon

» “Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.”
– Sammy Davis Jr.

» “The road to success runs uphill.”
– Willie Davis

» “To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.”
– Keith Degreen

» “Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.”
– Emily Dickinson

» “I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.”
– Walt Disney

» “Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “Success is the child of audacity.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “The secret of success is consistency of purpose.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “To succeed… you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.”
– Tony Dorsett

» “When a man has done his best, has given his all, and in the process supplied the needs of his family and his society, that man has made a habit of succeeding.”
– Mack R. Douglas

» “The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.”
– John Foster Dulles

» “Be awfully nice to them going up, because you’re gonna meet them all coming down.”
– Jimmy Durante

» “Success is not something you get out of what you do.”
– Wayne Dyer

» “Success… it’s what you do with what you’ve got.”
– Leroy Van Dyke

» “A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan

» “One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But speaking for myself, I can honestly say this is not so… I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
– Thomas A. Edison

» “If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.”
– Albert Einstein

» “Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.”
– T. S. Eliot

» “There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “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 even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “A strenuous soul hates cheap success.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.”
– G. Emmons

» “Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.”
– Sam Ewing

» “What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.”
– Benjamin F. Fairless

» “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
– William Feather

» “When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.”
– Art Fettig

» “There are opportunities everywhere, just as there have always been…”
– Charles Fillmore

» “Success is the sum of details.”
– Harvey S. Firestone

» “It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.”
– Harvey S. Firestone

» “The real winners are not those at the top but those who have come the farthest over the toughest roads. Your victory may never make the headlines. But you will know about it, and that’s what counts.”
– Ernest A. Fitzgerald

» “I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one’s life.”
– G. W. Follin

» “Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes

» “The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?”
– Brendan Francis

» “My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.”
– Franki

» “You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “Would you live with ease, do what you should, and not what you please. Success has ruined many a man.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.”
– Leon Gambetta

» “Don’t expect mangoes when you plant papayas.”
– Mimfa A. Gibson

» “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.”
– Joe Girard

» “Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.”
– Charles J. Givens

» “Success with money, family, relationships, health, and careers is the ability to reach your personal objectives in the shortest time, with the least effort and with the fewest mistakes. The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.”
– Charles J. Givens

» “On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.”
– Samuel Goldwyn

» “I have got tow reasons for success and I’m standing on both of them.”
– Betty Grable

» “When you are making a success of something, it’s not work. It’s a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.”
– Andrew Granatelli

» “Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don’t like to do.”
– Albert Gray

» “We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.”
– John B. S. Haldane

» “You never become a howling success by just howling.”
– Bob Harrington

» “The real superstar is a man or a woman raising six kids on $150 a week.”
– Spencer Haywood

» “If a guy has a really good success pattern, I’ll go along with him if he says he can go to the moon on Scotch tape.”
– Raymond Herzog

» “Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win — essential to success.”
– Napoleon Hill

» “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”
– Napoleon Hill

» “Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
– Napoleon Hill

» “Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.”
– Napoleon Hill

» “The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.”
– Napoleon Hill

» “Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.”
– Hitopadesa

» “Success is like a fart — only your own smells nice.”
– James P. Hogan

» “I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.”
– Billie Holiday

» “There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.”
– Josiah Gilbert Holland

» “To give your best is to receive the best.”
– Raymond Holliwell

» “Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.”
– Hamilton Holt

» “We claim that any man who is honest, fair, tolerant, kind, charitable, and well-behaved is a success. No matter what his station in life.”
– Jay House

» “Anything that interferes with individual progress ultimately will retard group progress.”
– George Houston

» “Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them…”
– Edgar Watson Howe

» “He who has achieved success has worked well, laughed often and loved much.”
– Elbert Hubbard

» “The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.”
– Elbert Hubbard

» “There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?”
– Kin Hubbard

» “How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.”
– Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

» “To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.”
– Bunker Hunt

» “I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it.”
– Reggie Jackson

» “The key to my success has been to give up everything for my dream.”
– John Johnson

» “Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.”
– Pete Johnson

» “Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves — to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.”
– Stewart B. Johnson

» “Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.”
– Edward Judson

» “Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition — in having put forth the best within you”
– Henry J. Kaiser

» “It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.”
– Walter Kane

» “Success is a matter of viewpoint. The pessimist sees the bottle as half empty. The optimist sees it as half full.”
– Joe Karbo

» “Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.”
– Helen Keller

» “Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.”
– Helen Keller

» “It is more important to be of service than successful.”
– Robert Kennedy Jr.

» “Failure has no friends.”
– John F. Kennedy

» “If at first you don’t succeed, take the tax loss.”
– Kirk Kirkpatrick

» “Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one’s origins and one’s final achievement.”
– Michael Korda

» “This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can’t be happy as a success, it’s very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.”
– Michael Korda

» “To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.”
– Michael Korda

» “The Lord gave us two ends — one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.”
– Ann Landers

» “Success didn’t spoil me, I’ve always been insufferable.”
– Fran Lebowitz

» “The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.”
– Malcolm. W. Little

» “The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

» “If, at first, you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment.”
– Los Angeles Times

» “Success is that old A B C; ability, breaks, and courage.”
– Charles Luckman

» “To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.”
– John W. Mackay

» “The only certain means of is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.”
– Og Mandino

» “The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.”
– Og Mandino

» “Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.”
– Orison Swett Marden

» “Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage… true success follows every right step.”
– Orison Swett Marden

» “Opportunities? They are all around us… There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.”
– Orison Swett Marden

» “Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.”
– Orison Swett Marden

» “When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say ”amen” to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, — this is happiness, this is success.”
– Orison Swett Marden

» “Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.”
– Don Marquis

» “Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.”
– Don Marquis

» “The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

» “Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.”
– John McEnroe

» “Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That’s dedication.”
– Cecil B. De Mille

» “The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn’t been asleep.”
– Wilson Mizner

» “Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.”
– Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

» “If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.”
– Robert Montgomery

» “Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”
– Christopher Morley

» “There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley

» “I think that at some point in your life you realize you don’t have to worry if you do everything you’re supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can… what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.”
– Joe Namath

» “Success is like war and like charity in religion, it covers a multitude of sins.”
– Sir Charles Napier

» “Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.”
– G. K. Nielson

» “Success has always been a great liar.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

» “We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.”
– Earl Nightingale

» “We must be the epitome-the embodiment-of success. We must radiate success before it will come to us. We must first become mentally, from an attitude standpoint, the people we wish to become.”
– Earl Nightingale

» “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”
– Earl Nightingale

» “Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.”
– Alex Noble

» “It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.”
– Gregory Nunn

» “If you’re climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don’t look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don’t think you’re progressing until you step back and see how high you’ve really gone.”
– Donny Osmond

» “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
– George S. Patton

» “We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it’s more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

» “One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.”
– Jack Penn

» “If at first you don’t succeed, lie, lie again.”
– Laurence J. Peter

» “Success tempts many to their ruin.”
– Phaedrus

» “Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.”
– Frank Popoff

» “The successful man is prosperous, because he has developed ninety-five percent of his ability. The failure is poor, because only five percent of his natural talents have been utilized.”
– Charles E. Popplestone

» “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.”
– Colin Powell

» “The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.”
– Leontyne Price

» “What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.”
– Proverb

» “If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.”
– Dan Quayle

» “Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.”
– Diana Rankin

» “I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.”
– Jean Paul Richter

» “The only journey is the one within.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke

» “I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”
– Anthony Robbins

» “If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.”
– Anthony Robbins

» “My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain — and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.”
– Anthony Robbins

» “Success comes from taking the initiative and following up… persisting… eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life?”
– Anthony Robbins

» “Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.”
– Anthony Robbins

» “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
– Anthony Robbins

» “If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”
– John D. Rockefeller

» “Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.”
– Jim Rohn

» “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.”
– Jim Rohn

» “Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals”
– Jim Rohn

» “Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.”
– Jim Rohn

» “The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

» “Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, ”Certainly I can!” — and get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

» “Not in time, place, or circumstances, but in the man lies success.”
– Charles B. Rouss

» “Success doesn’t suck.”
– Darius Rucker

» “Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.”
– Donald Rumsfeld

» “If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.”
– John Ruskin

» “Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.”
– John Ruskin

» “The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.”
– John Ruskin

» “Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.”
– David Sarnoff

» “He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.”
– Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

» “Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don’t even know there is a ladder.”
– Robert H. Schuller

» “The man who has done his best has done everything.”
– Charles M. Schwab

» “Here is the basic rule for winning success. Let’s mark it in the mind and remember it. The rule is: Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be in is the support of other people.”
– David J. Schwartz

» “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
– Albert Schweitzer

» “The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer

» “Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.”
– Seneca

» “Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.”
– Seneca

» “To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.”
– William Shakespeare

» “I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “Success covers a multitude of blunders.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “The two leading recipes for success are building a better mousetrap and finding a bigger loophole.”
– Edgar Shoaff

» “Success is not forever and failure isn’t fatal.”
– Don Shula

» “You have not lived a perfect day… unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”
– Ruth Smeltzer

» “The only place you find success before work is in the dictionary.”
– May V. Smith

» “The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.”
– Roy L. Smith

» “There is no success without hardship.”
– Sophocles

» “Success, remember is the reward of toil.”
– Sophocles

» “The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.”
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon

» “Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.”
– Konstantin Stanislavisky

» “To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

» “Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.”
– Barbara Streisand

» “True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.”
– Paul Sweeney

» “Success is a journey, not a destination.”
– Ben Sweetland

» “A man’s own character is the arbiter of his fortune.”
– Publilius Syrus

» “Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want. The person not reaching the top is no less a success than the one who achieved it, if they both sweated blood, sweat and tears and overcame obstacles and fears. The failure to be perfect does not mean you’re not a success.”
– Fran Tarkenton

» “Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.”
– William M. Thackeray

» “One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you–suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, ”Well, I’ll have a go, too.””
– Margaret Thatcher

» “To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.”
– Robert Thibodeau

» “We were born to succeed, not to fail.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.”
– Lily Tomlin

» “Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.”
– Arnold Toynbee

» “The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.”
– Brian Tracy

» “Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope

» “Success depends on our using, and not opposing…”
– Thomas Troward

» “Success means only doing what you do well, letting someone else do the rest.”
– Goldstein S. Truism

» “Keep breathing.”
– Sophie Tucker

» “We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it’s what he descends to that shames the human race.”
– Mark Twain

» “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.”
– Mark Twain

» “Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”
– Mark Twain

» “There’s always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.”
– Mark Twain

» “If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.”
– Source Unknown

» “A successful person is a dreamer whom someone believed in.”
– Source Unknown

» “You can never have real success till you meet the real person — YOU.”
– Source Unknown

» “Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.”
– Source Unknown

» “The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one’s back in the morning.”
– Source Unknown

» “The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces”
– Source Unknown

» “The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.”
– Source Unknown

» “Big men become big by doing what they didn’t want to do when they didn’t want to do it.”
– Source Unknown

» “You already have every characteristic necessary for success.”
– Source Unknown

» “Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.”
– Source Unknown

» “You don’t have to stay up nights to succeed; you have to stay awake days.”
– Source Unknown

» “Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; ”I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure — try to please everybody.”
– Source Unknown

» “Make service your first priority, not success and success will follow.”
– Source Unknown

» “There is plenty of room at the top — but no place to sit down.”
– Source Unknown

» “If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.”
– Source Unknown

» “Success and money have nothing in common.”
– Source Unknown

» “Formula for Success… and then some. The top people do what’s expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.”
– Source Unknown

» “Success isn’t how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.”
– Source Unknown

» “Success is more attitude than aptitude.”
– Source Unknown

» “Success isn’t necessarily permanent — but neither is failure.”
– Source Unknown

» “Success is failure turned inside out.”
– Source Unknown

» “Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.”
– Source Unknown

» “Success is best measured by how far you’ve come with the talents you’ve been given.”
– Source Unknown

» “Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.”
– Denis Waitley

» “We don’t need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What we need is to use what we have.”
– Basil S. Walsh

» “Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna, or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.”
– Barbara Walters

» “Success is not a doorway, it’s a staircase.”
– Dottie Walters

» “Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.”
– An Wang

» “Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.”
– William A. Ward

» “Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.”
– William A. Ward

» “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.”
– Booker T. Washington

» “The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.”
– Thomas J. Watson

» “Would you like me to give you a formula for… success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You’re thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all… you can be discouraged by failure — or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success. On the far side.”
– Thomas J. Watson

» “Success action is cumulative in its results.”
– Wallace D. Wattles

» “There is always room at the top.”
– Daniel Webster

» “Only a life built into God’s place can succeed. Half of our discouragements are due to the fact that we are not in tune with the infinite harmony of the Great Power, We should be helpers in building the city of God. A city that will endure when all earthly”
– Bishop Herbert E. Welch

» “The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.”
– H.G. Wells

» “Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverance.”
– C. W. Wendte

» “Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.”
– Howard Whitman

» “The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world’s specifications even though these are not the specifications drawn up in our own hearts. For whom are we succeeding, for ourselves or for somebody else? Success, if it is to be mea”
– Howard Whitman

» “Nothing succeeds like success.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.”
– Tennessee Williams

» “Success and failure are equally disastrous.”
– Tennessee Williams

» “The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life, and if the system under which we live the structure of western civilization begins to collapse because of our selfishness and greed, then it will make no difference whether you have $1 million dollars when the crash comes or just $1.00. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.”
– Marianne Williamson

» “There is no royal road; you’ve got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.”
– Charles E. Wilson

» “Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.”
– Earl Wilson

» “Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.”
– Sloan Wilson

» “I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.”
– Woodrow T. Wilson

» “I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”
– Jonathan Winters

» “If a man has talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has talent and uses only half of it, he has half failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.”
– Thomas Wolfe

» “It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.”
– John Wooden

» “Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.”
– John Wooden

» “Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.”
– John Wooden

» “Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.”
– John Wooden

» “The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.”
– Babe Didrikson Zaharias

» “You don’t pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success.”
– Zig Ziglar

» “You can have anything in the world you want if you’ll just help enough other people get what they want.”
– Zig Ziglar

» “Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting — in the trying, not the triumph, Success is a personal standard — reaching for the highest that is in us — becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”
– Zig Ziglar

» “Success is dependent upon the glands — sweat glands.”
– Zig Ziglar

» “Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”
– Zig Ziglar

» “Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought — particularly for people who can never”
– Woody Allen

» “Rather than have it the principal thing in my son’s mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.”
– Thomas Arnold

» “But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.”
– Antonin Artaud

» “When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.”
– W. H. Auden

» “Science is but an image of the truth.”
– Francis Bacon

» “Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.”
– Amelia E. Barr

» “The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.”
– Hilaire Belloc

» “In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.”
– P. L. Berger

» “If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.”
– Niels Bohr

» “Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.”
– Georges Braque

» “Science knows only one commandment — contribute to science.”
– Bertolt Brecht

» “No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.”
– Jacob Bronowski

» “Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.”
– Jacob Bronowski

» “It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he’ll always say ”Publish and be damned.””
– Jacob Bronowski

» “Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.”
– Jacob Bronowski

» “That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.”
– Jacob Bronowski

» “The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.”
– Olympia Brown

» “I hate science. It denies a man’s responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God’s fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast. It is far easier for a Hitler or a Stalin to find a mock-scientific excuse for persecution than it was for Dominic to find a mock-Christian one.”
– Basil Bunting

» “They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.”
– William S. Burroughs

» “Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.”
– Vannevar Bush

» “Science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.”
– Samuel Butler

» “Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.”
– Lord Byron

» “O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?”
– Thomas Campbell

» “Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.”
– Thomas Carlyle

» “There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.”
– Raymond Chandler

» “The true science and study of man, is man himself.”
– Pierre Charron

» “The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

» “Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

» “The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.”
– Winston Churchill

» “Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.”
– Arthur C. Clarke

» “Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut [Animals] up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph… ”Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?””
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

» “A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.”
– Robin G. Collingwood

» “Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.”
– Cyril Connolly

» “Everybody’s a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We’re all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.”
– David Cronenberg

» “Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”
– Rene Daumal

» “Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.”
– John Dewey

» “Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see — but microscopes are prudent in an emergency”
– Emily Dickinson

» “Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.”
– Denis Diderot

» “The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain’s race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.”
– John Donne

» “Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

» “Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids — without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.”
– Barbara Ehrenreich

» “The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.”
– Paul Ehrlich

» “A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”
– Albert Einstein

» “Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.”
– Albert Einstein

» “Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.”
– Albert Einstein

» “Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.”
– Albert Einstein

» “Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.”
– Albert Einstein

» “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
– Albert Einstein

» “The man of science is a poor philosopher.”
– Albert Einstein

» “The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
– Albert Einstein

» “When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails.”
– Albert Einstein

» “Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science”
– Albert Einstein

» “Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “What terrible questions we are learning to ask! The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men’s minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “If they don’t depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.”
– Penelope Fitzgerald

» “Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.”
– Keith Floyd

» “Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced — by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.”
– Erich Fromm

» “Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.”
– James A. Froude

» “The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith

» “There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith

» “Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.”
– Eric Gill

» “Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “Science is an integral part of culture. It’s not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It’s one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.”
– Stephen Jay Gould

» “Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.”
– Remy De Gourmont

» “Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure.”
– Stephen Hales

» “Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be — and the non-necessity of it.”
– Thomas Hardy

» “There are no better terms available to describe [The] difference between the approach of the natural and the social sciences than to call the former ”objective” and the latter ‘’subjective.” … While for the natural scientist the contrast between objective facts and subjective opinions is a simple one, the distinction cannot as readily be applied to the object of the social sciences. The reason for this is that the object, the ”facts” of the social sciences are also opinions — not opinions of the student of the social phenomena, of course, but opinions of those whose actions produce the object of the social scientist.”
– Friedrich August Von Hayek

» “Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the universe without God.”
– Robert Herrman

» “Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.”
– Alexander Herzen

» “Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.”
– Thomas Hobbes

» “There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.”
– E. J. Hobsbawm

» “The mythology of science asserts that with many different scientists all asking their own questions and evaluating the answers independently, whatever personal bias creeps into their individual answers is cancelled out when the large picture is put together. This might conceivably be so if scientists were women and men from all sorts of different cultural and social backgrounds who came to science with very different ideologies and interests. But since, in fact, they have been predominantly university-trained white males from privileged social backgrounds, the bias has been narrow and the product often reveals more about the investigator than about the subject being researched.”
– Ruth Hubbard

» “To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.”
– Ruth Hubbard

» “Science has ”explained” nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.”
– Aldous Huxley

» “We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.”
– Aldous Huxley

» “Science is simply common sense at its best–that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”
– Thomas H. Huxley

» “In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.”
– Thomas H. Huxley

» “I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.”
– Thomas H. Huxley

» “The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
– Thomas H. Huxley

» “It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.”
– Henrik Ibsen

» “Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.”
– Robert Green Ingersoll

» “There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.”
– P. D. James

» “Man lives for science as well as bread.”
– William James

» “All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”
– Lord Kelvin

» “We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

» “For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions — largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.”
– Rudyard Kipling

» “The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.”
– Paul Klee

» “Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.”
– Arthur Koestler

» “Science is a game we play with God, to find out what his rules are.”
– Cornelius Krasel

» “Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.”
– Karl Kraus

» “In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.”
– Charles Lamb

» “Science is all metaphor.”
– Timothy Leary

» “The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.”
– Primo Levi

» “The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.”
– Claude Levi-Strauss

» “Science is the systematic classification of experience.”
– George Henry Lewes

» “The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of ”decency.” The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.”
– Wyndham Lewis

» “When we say ‘’science” we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.”
– Wyndham Lewis

» “The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.”
– Georg C. Lichtenberg

» “There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.”
– Georg C. Lichtenberg

» “If it can’t be expressed in figures, it’s not science it’s opinion.”
– Lazarus Long

» “It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.”
– Konrad Lorenz

» “Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.”
– Konrad Lorenz

» “Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.”
– Don Marquis

» “The product of mental labor — science — always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.”
– Karl Marx

» “Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.”
– Karl Marx

» “In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.”
– Mary Mccarthy

» “There’s not a whole lot of new atoms out there.”
– Denny McDonough

» “The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.”
– Margaret Mead

» “From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets to be scanned by them who ought rather admire; or if they list to try conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens left to their disputes, perhaps to move his laughter at their quaint opinions wide hereafter, when they come to model heaven calculate the stars, how they will wield the mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive to save appearances, how gird the sphere with centric and eccentric scribbled o’er, and epicycle, orb in orb.”
– John Milton

» “Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”
– Maria Mitchell

» “Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have Certainty without any proof.”
– C. E. Montague

» “The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.”
– John Von Neumann

» “I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
– Sir Isaac Newton

» “Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

» “Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.”
– Charles H. Parkhurst

» “Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other — only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.”
– Talcott Parsons

» “Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”
– Blaise Pascal

» “There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.”
– Louis Pasteur

» “There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.”
– Louis Pasteur

» “Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 — 20 hindsight. It’s good for seeing where you’ve been. It’s good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can’t tell you where you ought to go.”
– Robert M. Pirsig

» “I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.”
– Plato

» “If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.”
– Plato

» “Science is nothing but perception.”
– Plato

» “Nevertheless, in order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is not enough to be illumined with the gift of faith and enkindled with the desire of forwarding a good cause. For this end it is necessary to take an active part in the various organizations and influence them from within. And since our present age is one of outstanding scientific and technical progress and excellence, one will not be able to enter these organizations and work effectively from within unless he is scientifically competent, technically capable and skilled in the practice of his own profession.”
– Pope John XXIII

» “One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.”
– Alexander Pope

» “Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.”
– Karl Popper

» “Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtle than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.”
– Richard Powers

» “Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.”
– Edgar Quinet

» “Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.”
– Jean Rostand

» “When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won’t one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.”
– Jean Rostand

» “It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.”
– Jean Rostand

» “A body of work such as Pasteur’s is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.”
– Jean Rostand

» “It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.”
– Jean Rostand

» “Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.”
– Joseph Roux

» “The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”
– John Ruskin

» “Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.”
– Bertrand Russell

» “Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?”
– Bertrand Russell

» “In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.”
– Bertrand Russell

» “Science is what you know, philosophy what you don’t know.”
– Bertrand Russell

» “Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.”
– George Santayana

» “Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
– Adam Smith

» “Science is organized knowledge.”
– Herbert Spencer

» “He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.”
– Jonathan Swift

» “The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.”
– Edward Teller

» “If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.”
– Count Leo Tolstoy

» “Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.”
– Mark Twain

» “Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.”
– Miguel De Unamuno

» “Isn’t it marvelous how those scientists know the names of all those stars?”
– Source Unknown

» “Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.”
– Paul Valery

» “Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”
– Paul Valery

» “If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.”
– Evelyn Waugh

» “To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don’t know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.”
– Simone Weil

» “The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.”
– Steven Weinberg

» “Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

» “Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”
– Henry Brooks Adams

» “In politics the middle way is none at all.”
– John Adams

» “Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.”
– Oscar Ameringer

» “Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.”
– Kingsley Amis

» “Nothing is irreparable in politics.”
– Jean Anouilh

» “All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”
– John Arbuthnot

» “Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.”
– Aristotle

» “What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.”
– Aristotle

» “Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.”
– Dick Armey

» “Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.”
– Paddy Ashdown

» “He could not see a belt without hitting below it.”
– Margot Asquith

» “The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation. Empirical politics must be kept in bounds by democratic institutions, which leave it up to the subjects of the experiment to say whether it shall be tried, and to stop it if they dislike it, because, in politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.”
– W. H. Auden

» “My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.”
– W. H. Auden

» “It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.”
– Francis Bacon

» “A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.”
– Walter Bagehot

» “The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them or asks after them, but they are obeyed implicitly and unconsciously by reason of the splendor of those who eclipsed and preceded them.”
– Walter Bagehot

» “When great questions end, little parties begin.”
– Walter Bagehot

» “Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident — the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.”
– Edward C. Banfield

» “The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does.”
– Barres

» “It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.”
– Jean Baudrillard

» “Politicians — power itself — are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.”
– Jean Baudrillard

» “The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.”
– Jean Baudrillard

» “The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.”
– Jean Baudrillard

» “The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.”
– Tony Benn

» “We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.”
– Tony Benn

» “Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.”
– Yogi Berra

» “Politics is a blood sport.”
– Aneurin Bevan

» “The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.”
– Aneurin Bevan

» “What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.”
– Ambrose Bierce

» “Politics is not an exact science.”
– Otto Von Bismarck

» “Politics is the art of the next best.”
– Otto Von Bismarck

» “I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.”
– William Blake

» “The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.”
– Henry Bolingbroke

» “In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

» “I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.”
– George Borrow

» “The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.”
– Ben C. Bradlee

» “Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.”
– Vera Brittain

» “A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.”
– Fawn M. Brodie

» “Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.”
– Denis E. Brogan

» “A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.”
– Heywood Broun

» “It doesn’t matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.”
– Jerry Brown

» “I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.”
– William Jennings Bryan

» “No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life’s course by a mere accident.”
– James Bryce

» “A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.”
– Edmund Burke

» “Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.”
– Edmund Burke

» “Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”
– Edmund Burke

» “Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”
– Edmund Burke

» “People say I’m indecisive, but I don’t know about that.”
– George Bush

» “A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.”
– Robert Byrne

» “I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.”
– Lord Byron

» “An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.”
– W. J. Cameron

» “Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don’t go in for politics.”
– Albert Camus

» “Away with the cant of ”Measures, not men!” — the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.”
– George Canning

» “Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.”
– Joseph Cannon

» “It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.”
– Thomas Carlyle

» “Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.”
– Thomas Carlyle

» “Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul — politics does the same thing for the body.”
– Joyce Cary

» “The problem with political jokes is they get elected.”
– Henry Cate

» “Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.”
– Michel De Certeau

» “The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
– John Jay Chapman

» “Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.”
– John Jay Chapman

» “If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea, on any excuse, to vote for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party (for at present machine and party are one), or for any candidate who does not stand for a new era, — then you yourself pass into the slide of the magic-lantern; you are an exhibit, a quaint product, a curiosity of the American soil. You are part of the problem.”
– John Jay Chapman

» “A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.”
– John Jay Chapman

» “Half a truth is better than no politics.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

» “Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.”
– Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

» “Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn’t happen.”
– Winston Churchill

» “Any 20 year-old who isn’t a liberal doesn’t have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn’t a conservative doesn’t have a brain.”
– Winston Churchill

» “In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.”
– Winston Churchill

» “Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.”
– Winston Churchill

» “Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.”
– Winston Churchill

» “There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.”
– Alan Clark

» “A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.”
– James Freeman Clarke

» “When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn’t like it, and I didn’t inhale, and I never tried again.”
– Bill Clinton

» “You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year’s one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.”
– Bill Clinton

» “The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.”
– Arthur Hugh Clough

» “Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.”
– Frank Moore Colby

» “In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

» “What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.”
– Calvin Coolidge

» “Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.”
– James F. Cooper

» “Now, we deny not, but that politicians may sometimes abuse religion, and make it serve for the promoting of their own private interests and designs; which yet they could not do so well neither, were the thing itself a mere cheat and figment of their own, and had no reality at all in nature, nor anything solid at the bottom of it.”
– Ralph J. Cudworth

» “The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.”
– Ely Culbertson

» “A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.”
– E.E. Edward

» “Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.”
– Frank Dane

» “The news of any politician’s death should be listed under ”Public Improvements.””
– Frank Dane

» “The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one’s contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.”
– Angela Y. Davis

» “In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn’t work very well.”
– Len Deighton

» “The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land, in England there shall be dear bread — in Ireland, sword and brand; and poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand, so rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand, of the fine old English Tory days; hail to the coming time!”
– Charles Dickens

» “There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “A majority is always better than the best repartee.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “In politics, nothing is contemptible.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “Finality is not the language of politics.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “Politic is going to be diluted down into a ten second window, where you whack the guy as hard as you can and then get out there.”
– Alan Dixon

» “Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.”
– John Dryden

» “It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.”
– Abba Eban

» “Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.”
– Barbara Ehrenreich

» “An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.”
– Albert Einstein

» “Politics is far more complicated than physics.”
– Albert Einstein

» “Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

» “Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

» “There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.”
– Hans Magnus Enzensberger

» “As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren’t even people I would date.”
– Nora Ephron

» “Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.”
– Desiderius Erasmus

» “The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.”
– Franklin Field

» “What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.”
– John Fischer

» “Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don’t understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn’t a business.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes

» “Elected leaders who forget how they got there won’t the next time.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes

» “The first mistake in public business is going into it.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “Politics is a profession where the paths of glory lead but to the gravy.”
– Billy Boy Franklin

» “A politician divides mankind into two classes; tools and enemies.”
– Fredrich

» “The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security and resistance to oppression.”
– French National Assembly

» “The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller

» “Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.”
– Hugh Gaitskell

» “Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith

» “Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith

» “There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith

» “There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don’t say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.”
– John Galsworthy

» “I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.”
– Jose Ortega Y Gasset

» “I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
– Charles De Gaulle

» “Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.”
– Charles De Gaulle

» “What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.”
– David Lloyd George

» “In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.”
– Emma Goldman

» “The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.”
– Emma Goldman

» “It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president… except me.”
– Barry Goldwater

» “If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.”
– Barry Goldwater

» “My life’s work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.”
– Mikhail Gorbachev

» “If a politician isn’t doing it to his wife , then he’s doing it to his country.”
– Amy Grant

» “I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers; what I said was all saloonkeepers are Democrats.”
– Horace Greeley

» “Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.”
– Meg Greenfield

» “Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.”
– Edward F. Halifax

» “In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.”
– Roy Hattersley

» “He serves his party best who serves his country best.”
– Rutherford B. Hayes

» “A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer — that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.”
– William Hazlitt

» “A politician will do anything to keep his job, even become a patriot.”
– William Randolph Hearst

» “We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick… the trade union for the nation as a whole.”
– Edward Heath

» “In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.”
– Heinrich Heine

» “You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don’t know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God’s curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wives and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.”
– Anthony Henley

» “Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.”
– Edouard Herriot

» “Politics is a choice of enemas. You’re gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.”
– George V. Higgins

» “Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.”
– Muhammad Hijazi

» “One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.”
– Horace

» “I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.”
– Kin Hubbard

» “Politics makes strange postmasters.”
– Kin Hubbard

» “If there is anything a public servant hates to do it is something for the public.”
– Kin Hubbard

» “Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.”
– Kin Hubbard

» “A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.”
– Hubert H. Humphrey

» “Never answer a question from a farmer.”
– Hubert H. Humphrey

» “The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.”
– Hubert H. Humphrey

» “Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.”
– Aldous Huxley

» “Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.”
– Aldous Huxley

» “There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics — none in which there is more need of good pilots and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.”
– Thomas H. Huxley

» “My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.”
– Jesse Jackson

» “Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.”
– Thomas Jefferson

» “When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.”
– Thomas Jefferson

» “If you’re I politics and you can’t tell when you walk into a room who’s for you and who’s against you, then you’re in the wrong line of work.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson

» “Son, in politics you’ve got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson

» “You slam a politician, you make out he’s the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.”
– Pamela Hansford Johnson

» “Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one members suffers, all the members suffer with it.”
– Junius

» “A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.”
– Murray Kempton

» “Once you run for office, you’re in it — sort of like going into the military. You’d better be damned sure it is what you want to do and that the rest of your life is set up to accommodate that. It takes a certain toll on your personality and on your family life. I’ve seen it personally.”
– John F. Kennedy Jr.

» “Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint — Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. [They] deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men.”
– John F. Kennedy

» “When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we’d been saying they were.”
– John F. Kennedy

» “Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.”
– John F. Kennedy

» “Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build A bridge even where there is no river.”
– Nikita Khrushchev

» “If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.”
– Henry Kissinger

» “Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.”
– Henry Kissinger

» “Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.”
– Arthur Koestler

» “A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.”
– Melvin R. Laird

» “In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.”
– Walter Savage Landor

» “What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.”
– Edward Langley

» “To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities — that is not to be taken seriously in politics.”
– Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

» “It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find.”
– Gerald F. Lieberman

» “Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.”
– Abraham Lincoln

» “The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the naïve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.”
– Walter Lippmann

» “The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.”
– Walter Lippmann

» “Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular — not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.”
– Walter Lippmann

» “Politicians say they’re beefing up our economy. Most don’t know beef from pork.”
– Hariold Lowman

» “Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.”
– Lord Macaulay

» “As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.”
– Harold Macmillan

» “At home you always have to be a politician. When you’re abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.”
– Harold Macmillan

» “The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.”
– John Major

» “Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows, marriage does.”
– Groucho Marx

» “As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.”
– Karl Marx

» “The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”
– Karl Marx

» “The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.”
– Karl Marx

» “In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.”
– Karl Marx

» “A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

» “It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

» “The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and the incompetence of Carter. Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.”
– Eugene J. Mccarthy

» “It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.”
– Eugene J. Mccarthy

» “One thing about a pig, he thinks he’s warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one’s nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.”
– Eugene J. Mccarthy

» “In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.”
– Mary Mccarthy

» “Politics is the enemy of the imagination.”
– Ian Mcewan

» “Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.”
– Marshall Mcluhan

» “A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
– H. L. Mencken

» “Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.”
– H. L. Mencken

» “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.”
– H. L. Mencken

» “A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.”
– John Stuart Mill

» “One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.”
– Henry Miller

» “Although he’s regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.”
– George J. Mitchell

» “Political image is like mixing cement. When it’s wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there’s almost nothing you can do to reshape it.”
– Walter F. Mondale

» “Hell hath no fury like a crooked politician denied his cut.”
– Benjamin J. Montalbano

» “In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.”
– John Morley

» “We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.”
– Hector Hugh Munro

» “When you’ve got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.”
– Fern Naito

» “The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.”
– Napoleon III

» “Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.”
– George Jean Nathan

» “I am not a crook.”
– Richard M. Nixon

» “I played by the rules of politics as I found them.”
– Richard M. Nixon

» “The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.”
– Richard M. Nixon

» “It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle’s eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory.”
– Kwame Nkrumah

» “Don’t fall in love with politicians, they’re all a disappointment. They can’t help it, they just are.”
– Peggy Noonan

» “Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.”
– Peggy Noonan

» “Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.”
– Peggy Noonan

» “The right man, in the right place, at the right time, can steal millions.”
– Gregory Nunn

» “You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.”
– Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

» “Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”
– George Orwell

» “Politics is the science of urgencies.”
– Theodore Parker

» “In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.”
– Cecil Parkinson

» “People who leave Washington do so by way of the box… ballet or coffin.”
– Claiborne Pell

» “The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they’ve been appointed and thinking they’ve been anointed.”
– Claude D. Pepper

» “If you can’t stand a little sacrifice and you can’t stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we’re never going to straighten this country out.”
– H. Ross Perot

» “Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.”
– Laurence J. Peter

» “Politician: From the Greek ”poly” (”many”) and the French ”tête” (”head” or ”face,” as in ”tête-à-tête”: head to head or face to face). Hence”
– Martin Pitt

» “To speak on without saying anything has always been the greatest gift of orators.”
– Platen

» “The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”
– Plato

» “In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill… we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.”
– Plato

» “I find myself… hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.”
– Alexander Pope

» “Legislators: Rape their wives and do two years. Kill their children and do five years. Steal their money and kiss your ass goodbye.”
– L. R. Powell

» “Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we’re going forward to tomorrow or whether we’re going to go past to the back!”
– Dan Quayle

» “People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.”
– Dan Quayle

» “Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.”
– Dan Quayle

» “Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.”
– John Quinton

» “Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.”
– Ronald Reagan

» “Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.”
– Ronald Reagan

» “Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”
– Ronald Reagan

» “It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”
– Ronald Reagan

» “Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”
– Ronald Reagan

» “We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.”
– Adrienne Rich

» “There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.”
– Elliot Richardson

» “What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people… then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.”
– Robert J. Ringer

» “In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.”
– John P. Roche

» “This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.”
– Will Rogers

» “There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.”
– Will Rogers

» “The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.”
– Will Rogers

» “The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.”
– Will Rogers

» “I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.”
– Will Rogers

» “The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you’ve got to admit that each party’s worse than the other. The one that’s out always looks the best.”
– Will Rogers

» “I’m not a member of any organized political party, I’m a Democrat!”
– Will Rogers

» “No party is as bad as its leaders.”
– Will Rogers

» “Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”
– Will Rogers

» “Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.”
– Will Rogers

» “A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

» “No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

» “The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

» “The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

» “When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer ”present” or ”not guilty.””
– Theodore Roosevelt

» “Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).”
– Harold Rosenberg

» “In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one’s party three times a day.”
– Jean Rostand

» “In politics, yesterday’s lie is attacked only to flatter today’s.”
– Jean Rostand

» “We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.”
– Dora Russell

» “To ”know your place” is a good idea in politics. That is not to say ‘’stay in your place” or ”hang on to your place,” because ambition or boredom may dictate upward or downward mobility, but a sense of place — a feel for one’s own position in the control room — is useful in gauging what you should try to do.”
– William Safire

» “The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.”
– Seneca

» “A politician is one that would circumvent God.”
– William Shakespeare

» “Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.”
– William Shakespeare

» “There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.”
– William Shakespeare

» “We mustn’t be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.”
– William T. Sherman

» “I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”
– Socrates

» “We mean by ”politics” the people’s business — the most important business there is.”
– Adlai E. Stevenson

» “A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.”
– Adlai E. Stevenson

» “Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.”
– Adlai E. Stevenson

» “Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

» “The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.”
– Jonathan Swift

» “Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.”
– William Howard Taft

» “I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.”
– Margaret Thatcher

» “Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “In politics… shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.”
– Alexis De Tocqueville

» “Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.”
– Lily Tomlin

» “You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on — into the dustbin of history!”
– Leon Trotsky

» “The essential ingredient in politics is timing.”
– Pierre Elliott Trudeau

» “A politician is a man who understands government and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for fifteen years.”
– Harry S. Truman

» “It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for fifteen years.”
– Harry S. Truman

» “When a leader is in the Democratic Party he is a boss, and when he is in the Republican Party he is a leader.”
– Harry S. Truman

» “Within the first few months I discovered that being president is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep riding or be swallowed.”
– Harry S. Truman

» “In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.”
– Mark Twain

» “Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.”
– Mark Twain

» “Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
– Mark Twain

» “When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man’s moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?”
– Mark Twain

» “I don’t care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.”
– Boss Tweed

» “Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.”
– Source Unknown

» “The most difficult choice a politician must ever make is whether to be a hypocrite or a liar.”
– Source Unknown

» “Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.”
– Source Unknown

» “Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.”
– Source Unknown

» “Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.”
– Source Unknown

» “A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and doctors. I don’t believe it. They are simply the people we are most afraid of. And with the most reason.”
– Source Unknown

» “Until you’ve been in politics you’ve never really been alive; it’s rough and sometimes it’s dirty and it’s always hard work and tedious details. But, it’s the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.”
– Source Unknown

» “He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.”
– Queen Victoria

» “The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.”
– Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

» “People with high ideals don’t necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.”
– Michio Watanabe

» “It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.”
– Auberon Waugh

» “One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.”
– Max Weber

» “Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say ”In spite of all!” has the calling for politics.”
– Max Weber

» “Only very intelligent people don’t wish they were in politics, and I’m dumb enough to want to be in there.”
– Orson Welles

» “A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.”
– E(lwyn) B(rooks) White

» “Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don’t talk politics.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that’s so important nowadays.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “A politician’s words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.”
– George F. Will

» “All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are ”up to a point.””
– George F. Will

» “Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.”
– George F. Will

» “This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.”
– Harold Wilson

» “The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.”
– Woodrow T. Wilson

» “Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”
– Mao Zedong

» “There is no money to be made at the bottom. There’s no money to made in the middle. But there’s a lot to be made at the top.”
– Martin Zimet

» “Money won’t make you happy… but everybody wants to find out for themselves.”
– Zig Ziglar

» “I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o clock.”
– Henny Youngman

» “Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.”
– Georgia Witkin

» “Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.”
– Earl Wilson

» “You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.”
– Tennessee Williams

» “The best way to save money is not to lose it.”
– Les Williams

» “The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn’t have any.”
– Stuart Wilde

» “There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.”
– John Wesley

» “When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money.”
– Artemus Ward

» “you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.”
– Denis Waitley

» “Don’t ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.”
– Denis Waitley

» “When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
– Voltaire

» “Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem.”
– Bill Vaughan

» “Money can’t buy health, happiness, or what it did last year.”
– Source Unknown

» “Money doesn’t always bring happiness. A man with ten million dollars is no happier than a man with nine million dollars.”
– Source Unknown

» “Money talks and often just says, ”Good Bye.””
– Source Unknown

» “Anyone can be great with money. With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. The trick is to be great without money.”
– Source Unknown

» “If you’re going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you’re going to give money make sure nobody else is around.”
– Source Unknown

» “Money can’t buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.”
– Source Unknown

» “Revenue is vanity… margin is sanity… cash is king.”
– Source Unknown

» “Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to everywhere but heaven.”
– Source Unknown

» “Once upon a time only Washington’s face was on our money, now Washington’s hands are on it too.”
– Source Unknown

» “Profits are an opinion, cash is a fact.”
– Source Unknown

» “I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.”
– Mark Twain

» “His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.””
– Mark Twain

» “The lack of money is the root of all evils.”
– Mark Twain

» “I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Rich is better.”
– Sophie Tucker

» “From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash.”
– Sophie Tucker

» “Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.”
– Donald Trump

» “The buck stops here.”
– Harry S. Truman

» “It’s just as easy to be happy with a lot of money as with a little.”
– Marvin Traub

» “Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “The only wealth is life.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.”
– Tertullian

» “A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.”
– Jonathan Swift

» “The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

» “Money is always there but the pockets change.”
– Gertrude Stein

» “Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.”
– Roger Starr

» “Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.”
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon

» “If I don’t need the money, I don’t work.”
– James Spader

» “All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth’s unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley

» “The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “Lack of money is the root of all evil.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.”
– William Shakespeare

» “But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!”
– Seneca

» “A great fortune is a great slavery.”
– Seneca

» “You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.”
– Robert H. Schuller

» “Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

» “There’s no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can’t do any business from there.”
– Col. Harland Sanders

» “It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.”
– John Ruskin

» “A fool and her money are soon courted.”
– Helen Rowland

» “Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau

» “I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.”
– Romain Rolland

» “Money is usually attracted, not pursued.”
– Jim Rohn

» “Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.”
– Jim Rohn

» “Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.”
– Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

» “I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.”
– John D. Rockefeller

» “God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God . to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.”
– John D. Rockefeller

» “Many people make the mistake of thinking that all the challenges in their lives would dissipate if they just had enough money. Nothing could be further from the truth. Earning more money, in and of itself, rarely frees people. It’s equally ridiculous to tell yourself that greater financial freedom and mastery of your finances would not offer your greater opportunities to expand, share, and create value for yourself and others.”
– Anthony Robbins

» “Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.”
– Mme. Riccoboni

» “Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.”
– Mary Quant

» “If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to.”
– Yiddish Proverb

» “Money is flat and meant to be piled up.”
– Scottish Proverb

» “When money speaks the truth is silent.”
– Russian Proverb

» “Good management is better than good income.”
– Portuguese Proverb

» “If you have money, men think you are wise, handsome, and able to sing like a bird.”
– Jewish Proverb

» “Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.”
– Japanese Proverb

» “Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.”
– Italian Proverb

» “Money begets money.”
– Italian Proverb

» “Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man’s joke is always funny.”
– Hebrew Proverb

» “If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.”
– Chinese Proverb

» “The poor man’s budget is full of schemes.”
– Proverb

» “When money is taken freedom is forsaken.”
– Proverb

» “Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.”
– Sextus Propertius

» “When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.”
– Plutarch

» “The day, water, sun, moon, night — I do not have to purchase these things with money.”
– Titus Maccius Plautus

» “Money will come to you when you are doing the right thing.”
– Michael Phillips

» “Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.”
– Ovid

» “More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.”
– Robert Orben

» “After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.”
– Aristotle Onassis

» “If a man is after money, he’s money mad; if he keeps it, he’s a capitalist; if he spends it, he’s a playboy; if he doesn’t get it, he’s a never-do-well; if he doesn’t try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he’s a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.”
– Vic Oliver

» “God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.”
– Austin O’Malley

» “Never underestimate the value of cold cash.”
– Gregory Nunn

» “Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the other five.”
– Richard Ney

» “The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.”
– Duane Newcomb

» “Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it’s put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America’s traditional optimism.”
– Paula Nelson

» “The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.”
– Rupert Murdoch

» “Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell.”
– Jr., Clint Murchison

» “The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.”
– Thornton T. Munger

» “Money doesn’t sleep.”
– Wall Street Movie

» “Taking it all in all, I find it is more trouble to watch after money than to get it.”
– Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

» “I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.”
– Marilyn Monroe

» “A person’s treatment of money is the most decisive test of his character, how they make it and how they spend it.”
– James Moffatt

» “Money couldn’t buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.”
– Spike Milligan

» “The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.”
– H. L. Mencken

» “The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.”
– H. L. Mencken

» “Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.”
– Robert J. Mccracken

» “Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

» “I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.”
– Jackie Mason

» “All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.”
– Karl Marx

» “If you want him to mourn, you had best leave him nothing.”
– Marcus Valerius Martial

» “There is nothing so habit-forming as money.”
– Don Marquis

» “There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.”
– Bernard Mandeville

» “When you have too much month for you paycheck, then what you need to do is realize that there is abundance all around you and focus on the abundance and not your lack and as night follows day abundance will come to you.”
– Sidney Madwed

» “But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.”
– George Macdonald

» “The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.”
– Martin Luther

» “After spending some money in his sleep, Hermon the Miser who so infuriated that he hanged himself.”
– Gaius Lucilius

» “Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.”
– Lucian

» “After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting.”
– Jesse Livermore

» “There’s only one thing money won’t buy, and that is poverty.”
– Joe E. Lewis

» “It doesn’t matter whether you are rich or poor — as long as you’ve got money.”
– Joe E. Lewis

» “I don’t like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.”
– Joe E. Lewis

» “I don’t care too much for money, money can’t buy me love.”
– John Lennon

» “Nobody deserves this much money — certainly not an actor.”
– Jack Lemmon

» “It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.”
– George Horace Latimer

» “We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer ”Yes, but I did it for the money,” satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.”
– Lewis H. Lapham

» “Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a tool or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.”
– Lewis H. Lapham

» “All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.”
– Ray Kroc

» “If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won’t know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.”
– E. S. Kinnear

» “The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.”
– John Maynard Keynes

» “It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.”
– John Maynard Keynes

» “Don’t be too busy earning a living to make any money.”
– Joe Karbo

» “The love of money grows as the money itself grows.”
– Decimus Junius Juvenalis Juvenal

» “Whatever you have spend less.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.”
– Ben Johnson

» “I have not observed men’s honesty to increase with their riches.”
– Thomas Jefferson

» “Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.”
– Henry James

» “My money goes to my agent, then to my accountant and from him to the tax man.”
– Glenda Jackson

» “Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.”
– Henrik Ibsen

» “The trick is to make sure you don’t die waiting for prosperity to come.”
– Lee Iacocca

» “Money is just a way of keeping score.”
– H. L. Hunt

» “Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.”
– Gittel Hudnick

» “The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket.”
– Kin Hubbard

» “When someone says it ain’t the money, but its the principal of the thing, it’s the money.”
– Elbert Hubbard

» “Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.”
– Elbert Hubbard

» “When a man says money can do anything, that settles it. He hasn’t any.”
– Edgar Watson Howe

» “No man’s credit is ever as good as his money.”
– Edgar Watson Howe

» “You can’t fatten the pig on market day.”
– John Howard

» “Does he council you better who bids you, ”Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?”
– Horace

» “I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.”
– Bill Hoest

» “More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.”
– Napoleon Hill

» “Money without brains is always dangerous.”
– Napoleon Hill

» “Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.”
– Napoleon Hill

» “Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.”
– Edward F. Halifax

» “The darkest day of any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.”
– Horace Greeley

» “If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.”
– Billy Graham

» “Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.”
– Oliver Goldsmith

» “Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.”
– Jerry Gillies

» “Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.”
– Kahlil Gibran

» “Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.”
– J. Paul Getty

» “If you can actually count your money, then you’re not a rich man.”
– J. Paul Getty

» “Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.”
– Jerry Gellies

» “But money, wife, is the true Fuller’s Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.”
– John Gay

» “Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man’s greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith

» “Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith

» “God makes, and apparel shapes; but it’s money that finishes the man.”
– Thomas Fuller

» “I’ve always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that’s the real test.”
– Robert Fulghum

» “Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher’s stone.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.”
– Anatole France

» “The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.”
– Henry Ford

» “Money is like an arm or leg — use it or lose it.”
– Henry Ford

» “Thought, not money, is the real business capital…”
– Harvey S. Firestone

» “A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.”
– W. C. Fields

» “If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.”
– Henry Fielding

» “Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.”
– Henry Fielding

» “Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.”
– Henry Fielding

» “Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich –that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.”
– Henry Fielding

» “Money can’t buy poverty.”
– Marty Feldman

» “Money is the sinews of love, as of war.”
– George Farquhar

» “The world is his who has money to go over it.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Money often costs too much.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Many of the things you can count, don’t count. Many of the things you can’t count, really count.”
– Albert Einstein

» “The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers.”
– Sir John Egan

» “If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be your downfall.”
– Bill Earle

» “Money doesn’t talk, it swears.”
– Bob Dylan

» “Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.”
– Wayne Dyer

» “When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.”
– Wayne Dyer

» “Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.”
– Andrea Dworkin

» “A billion here, a billion there, and soon you’re talking about real money.”
– Everett M. Dirksen

» “In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don’t have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.”
– Denis Diderot

» “Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!”
– Charles Dickens

» “Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.”
– Richard M. DeVos

» “Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.”
– Robertson Davies

» “Money isn’t everything… but it ranks right up there with oxygen.”
– Rita Davenport

» “There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.”
– Edward Dahlberg

» “I don’t even get an allowance.”
– Macaulay Culkin

» “Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

» “All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas — not money.”
– Robert Collier

» “A single idea — the sudden flash of a thought — may be worth a million dollars.”
– Robert Collier

» “Money is plentiful for those who understand the simple laws which govern its acquisition.”
– George S. Clason

» “It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.”
– George S. Clason

» “Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he’s too busy to enjoy.”
– Frank A. Clark

» “Many folks think they aren’t good at earning money, when what they don’t know is how to use it.”
– Frank A. Clark

» “There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.”
– Marcus T. Cicero

» “I’m not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don’t have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That’s the bottom line.”
– Ray Charles

» “There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
– Coco Chanel

» “However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.”
– Raymond Chandler

» “Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.”
– Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

» “If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.”
– Herbert N. Casson

» “The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.”
– Johnny Carson

» “Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.”
– Thomas Carlyle

» “It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
– Albert Camus

» “Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.”
– W. J. Cameron

» “Ready money is Aladdin’s lamp.”
– Lord Byron

» “I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.”
– Lord Byron

» “Yes! Ready money is Aladdin’s lamp.”
– Lord Byron

» “The want of money is the root of all evil.”
– Samuel Butler

» “The money men make lives after them.”
– Samuel Butler

» “High premiums are being paid today not particularly for quality service or long-term building of a business but rather for making money quickly, getting rich, and getting out. And that’s wrong.”
– Willard C. Butcher

» “We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.”
– Anthony Burgess

» “If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube it would be about the size of an eight room house. If a man got possession of all that gold — billions of dollars worth — he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience or a sense of eternity.”
– Charles F. Bunning

» “Anyone who says money can’t buy happiness just doesn’t know where to shop.”
– Bumper Sticker

» “Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.”
– Warren Buffett

» “I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.”
– Warren Buffett

» “The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God’s ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.”
– Norman O. Brown

» “It’s important to me that money not be important to me.”
– Les Brown

» “Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.”
– Hobart Brown

» “I’ve got a living to make, to put it plainly; there’s more money in shocking and terrifying than in edifying.”
– Walford Brodie

» “What’s the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.”
– Richard Branson

» “If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.”
– Ezra Bowen

» “The evidence unmistakably indicates that you have to spend money in order to make money.”
– Srully Blotnick

» “Instead of rising rapidly in the beginning and flattening out later, the earnings curves of most those who eventually become millionaires was the reverse; their income increased slowly, if at all, for many years. And then after two to three decades, it suddenly went through the roof.”
– Srully Blotnick

» “I really don’t like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.”
– Larry Bird

» “A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn’t want.”
– William Binger

» “Whether he admits it or not, a man has been brought up to look at money as a sign of his virility, a symbol of his power, a bigger phallic symbol than a Porsche.”
– Victoria Billings

» “I haven’t got as much money as some folks, but I’ve got as much impudence as any of them, and that’s the next thing to money.”
– Josh Billings

» “He who gathers money little by little makes it grow. [Proverbs 13:11]“
– Bible

» “A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. [Ecclesiastes 10:19]“
– Bible

» “The love of money is the root of all evil.”
– Bible

» “A nickel isn’t worth a dime today.”
– Yogi Berra

» “When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I’d give it back.”
– Yogi Berra

» “I’m tired of love; I’m still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.”
– Hilaire Belloc

» “Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.”
– Aphra Behn

» “It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

» “Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?”
– John Barrymore

» “Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.”
– P.T. Barnum

» “Finance, like time, devours its own children.”
– Honore De Balzac

» “Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.”
– James Baldwin

» “If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.”
– Francis Bacon

» “No man’s fortune can be an end worthy of his being.”
– Francis Bacon

» “Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.”
– Francis Bacon

» “Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.”
– Francis Bacon

» “Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.”
– Francis Bacon

» “Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.”
– Alan Ayckbourn

» “Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
– Jane Austen

» “Money is something you got to make in case you don’t die.”
– Max Asnas

» “Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it.”
– J. Ogden Armour

» “Money doesn’t mind if we say it’s evil, it goes from strength to strength. It’s a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy.”
– Martin Amis

» “Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
– Woody Allen

» “The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.”
– Scott Alexander

» “Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.”
– Scott Alexander

» “Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.”
– Joey Adams

» “When a match has equal partners then I fear not.”
– Aeschylus

» “Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.”
– Hoshang N. Akhtar

» “When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!”
– Shana Alexander

» “If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.”
– Marty Allen

» “The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won’t get much sleep..”
– Woody Allen

» “Marriage is the death of hope.”
– Woody Allen

» “To marry unequally is to suffer equally.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel

» “The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make — not just on your wedding day, but over and over again — and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.”
– Barbara De Angelis

» “Marriage is not a noun; it’s a verb. It isn’t something you get. It’s something you do. It’s the way you love your partner every day.”
– Barbara De Angelis

» “Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.”
– Louis K. Anspacher

» “To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has ”never had a chance, poor devil,” you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone.”
– Margot Asquith

» “I married beneath me. All women do.”
– Lady Nancy Astor

» “Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.”
– W. H. Auden

» “It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.”
– Jane Austen

» “Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”
– Jane Austen

» “Wives are young men’s mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.”
– Francis Bacon

» “In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.”
– Enid Bagnold

» “A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.”
– Honore De Balzac

» “It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.”
– Honore De Balzac

» “I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.”
– John Barrymore

» “Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.”
– Joseph Barth

» “Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.”
– Baskins

» “Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.”
– Vicki Baum

» “The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength –each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.”
– Simone De Beauvoir

» “How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.”
– Catharine Esther Beecher

» “Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

» “Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he’ll end up hating you.”
– Jill Bennett

» “Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. [1 Peter 3:7]“
– Bible

» “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her. [Ephesians 5:25]“
– Bible

» “Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. [Genesis 2:24]“
– Bible

» “Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.”
– Bible

» “For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30]“
– Bible

» “The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.”
– Ambrose Bierce

» “Marriage. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.”
– Ambrose Bierce

» “Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.”
– Ambrose Bierce

» “As a general thing, when the woman wears the pants in the family, she has a good right to them.”
– Josh Billings

» “The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men’s pursuits and professions to-day.”
– William Bolitho

» “When you get married you forget about kissing other women.”
– Pat Boone

» “Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.”
– Dr. Joyce Brothers

» “Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.”
РJean De La Bruy̬re

» “I hate work. That’s why I got married.”
– Peg Bundy

» “The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.”
– Archie Bunker

» “The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.”
– Anthony Burgess

» “One was never married, and that’s his hell; another is, and that’s his plague.”
– Robert Burton

» “I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.”
– Barbara Bush

» “Though women are angels, yet wedlock’s the devil.”
– Lord Byron

» “I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.”
– Lord Byron

» “All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.”
– Lord Byron

» “Love and marriage, love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage. Dad was told by mother. You can’t have one without the other.”
– Sammy Cahn

» “The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-lounge.”
– Patrick Campbell

» “If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.”
– Johnny Carson

» “A man will teach his wife what is needed to arouse his desires. And there is no reason for a woman to know any more than what her husband is prepared to teach her. If she gets married knowing far too much about what she wants and doesn’t want then she will be ready to find fault with her husband.”
– Barbara Cartland

» “There is a time for all things — except marriage my dear.”
– Thomas Chatterton

» “Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

» “There’s nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.”
– Daniel Chopin

» “Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the ”y” is silent.”
– W. A. Clarke

» “The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

» “Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

» “Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.”
– William Congreve

» “The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.”
– Cyril Connolly

» “Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desire to marry on both, nothing stands in the way of our happy union.”
– Cyril Connolly

» “I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.”
– Marie Corelli

» “Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.”
– Irwin Cory

» “That married couples can live together day after day is a miracle the Vatican has overlooked.”
– Bill Cosby

» “I’ve sometimes thought of marrying, and then I’ve thought again.”
– Noel Coward

» “Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven’t been able to find anybody who’ll take what I have to give.”
– Cass Daley

» “My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.”
– Rodney Dangerfield

» “My wife and I were happy for twenty. Then we met!”
– Rodney Dangerfield

» “I’d marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he’d be dead within a year.”
– Bette Davis

» “I think like any marriage, especially when you’ve had divorced parents like myself, you’d want to try even harder to make it work.”
– Princess of Wales Diana

» “When you’re a married man, Samivel, you’ll understand a good many things as you don’t understand now; but whether it’s worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.”
– Charles Dickens

» “Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age — as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.”
– Phyllis Diller

» “It destroys one’s nerve to be amiable every day to the same human being.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “I’m certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.”
– Dr. James C. Dobson

» “Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.”
– Isadora Duncan

» “So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.”
– Isadora Duncan

» “Men marry to make an end; women to make a beginning.”
– Alexis Dupuy

» “Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership.”
– Andrea Dworkin

» “Marriage is socialism among two people.”
– Barbara Ehrenreich

» “Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.”
– George Eliot

» “I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.”
– Elizabeth I

» “Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into — matrimony.”
– George Farquhar

» “Wasn’t marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn’t it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt?”
– Edna Ferber

» “One fool at least in every married couple.”
– Henry Fielding

» “When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.”
– Henry Fielding

» “There is a French saying: ”Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.””
– De Finod

» “Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.”
– Richard Ford

» “I’m going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli.”
– Michael J. Fox

» “Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “Marriage accustomed one to the good things, so one came to take them for granted, but magnified the bad things, so they came to feel as painful as a grain in one’s eye. An open window, a forgotten quart of milk, a TV set left blaring, socks on the bathroom floor could become occasions for incredible rage. And something happened sexually in marriage –the swearing to forsake all others, despite its slight observance, had a profound effect. Some people felt trapped by it, impelled to assert what they called freedom. Some accepted it like a rein, and in the effort to avoid pain in the form of hopeless desire, cut off occasions of desire, avoided having long talks at parties with attractive members of the opposite sex. In time, all feeling for the opposite sex was cut off, and intercourse limited to the barest politesses. But something happened to you when you did that, a kind of death seeped up from the genitals to the rest of the body, till it showed in the eyes, the gestures, in a certain lifelessness.”
– Marilyn French

» “Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.”
– Robert Frost

» “Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young ones.”
– Thomas Fuller

» “If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.”
– Thomas Fuller

» “I never hate a man enough to give him his diamonds back.”
– Zsa Zsa Gabor

» “A man in love is incomplete until he has married — then he’s finished.”
– Zsa Zsa Gabor

» “I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

» “To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!”
– Elizabeth Gaskell

» “I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.”
– J. Paul Getty

» “When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman’s premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, ”until death doth part.””
– Emma Goldman

» “Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love, the freest, the most powerful molder of human destiny; how can such an all-compelling force be synonymous with that poor little State and Church-begotten weed, marriage?”
– Emma Goldman

» “You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.”
– Oliver Goldsmith

» “Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.”
– James Graham

» “Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband’s often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says ”What would I do without you?” is already destroyed.”
– Germaine Greer

» “I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.”
– Lewis Grizzard

» “Instead of getting married again. I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.”
– Lewis Grizzard

» “Two souls and one thought, two hearts and one pulse.”
– Halen

» “Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious — friendship and learning.”
– Jane Harrison

» “The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.”
– Carolyn Heilbrun

» “Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.”
– Heinrich Heine

» “Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, ”What will you have, sir?” And I said, ”A glass of hemlock.””
– Ernest Hemingway

» “If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”
– Katharine Hepburn

» “Try to take for a mate a person of your own neighborhood.”
– Hesiod

» “When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.”
– Hitopadesa

» “She is a wife who is the soul of her husband.”
– Hitopadesa

» “I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

» “There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.”
– Homer

» “Polygamy is an endeavor to get more out of life than there is in it.”
– Elbert Hubbard

» “All marriages are happy it’s living together afterwards that causes all the problems.”
– Raymond Hull

» “Americans, who make more of marrying for love than any other people, also break up more or their marriages, but the figure reflects not so much the failure of love as the determination not to live without it.”
– Morton Hunt

» “Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.”
– Washington Irving

» “Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.”
– Andrew Jackson

» “Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.”
– Douglas William Jerrold

» “Marriage is a mistake every man should make.”
– Sir George Jessel

» “Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family –a domestic church.”
– John Paul II

» “Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.”
– Samuel Johnson

» “There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship –only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.”
– Erica Jong

» “Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.”
– Erica Jong

» “I never knew what real happiness was until I got married and by then it was too late.”
– Max Kauffman

» “Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house.”
– Jean Kerr

» “Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.”
– Ellen Key

» “Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

» “I don’t worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.”
– Sam Kinison

» “Marriage is a lottery, but you can’t tear up your ticket if you lose.”
– F. M. Knowles

» “Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.”
– Karl Kraus

» “Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.”
– Ann Landers

» “All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest –never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership.”
– Ann Landers

» “My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind –intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.”
– D. H. Lawrence

» “Progress of a marriage: ”There was a time when you couldn’t make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.””
– Irving Layton

» “Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.”
– Stephen B. Leacock

» “Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.”
– John Lennon

» “I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.”
– Abraham Lincoln

» “Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.”
– Abraham Lincoln

» “Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
– Martin Luther