A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless! <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
An overflow of good converts to bad. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Boldness be my friend. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Brevity is the soul of wit. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
By that sin fell the angels. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Death is a fearful thing. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Expectation is the root of all heartache. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Farewell, fair cruelty. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
For I can raise no money by vile means. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
For my part, it was Greek to me. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Give thy thoughts no tongue. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Having nothing, nothing can he lose. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o’ the flatterer. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Hell is empty and all the devils are here. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done! <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child! <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
I am not bound to please thee with my answer. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
I bear a charmed life. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
I dote on his very absence. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
I was adored once too. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
I will praise any man that will praise me. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
If music be the food of love, play on. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes’ palaces. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
In a false quarrel there is no true valor. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
In time we hate that which we often fear. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
It is a wise father that knows his own child. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Lawless are they that make their wills their law. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Let no such man be trusted. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Listen to many, speak to a few. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying! <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Love is too young to know what conscience is. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Men shut their doors against a setting sun. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Men’s vows are women’s traitors! <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
My pride fell with my fortunes. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Neither a borrower nor a lender be. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
No legacy is so rich as honesty. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Nothing can come of nothing. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Now is the winter of our discontent. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
O, had I but followed the arts! <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad! <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
O’ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Parting is such sweet sorrow. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
So foul and fair a day I have not seen. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Speak low, if you speak love. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Such as we are made of, such we be. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
The attempt and not the deed confounds us. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
The course of true love never did run smooth. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
The golden age is before us, not behind us. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
The lady doth protest too much, methinks. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
The love of heaven makes one heavenly. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
The object of art is to give life a shape. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
The valiant never taste of death but once. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
The wheel is come full circle. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
There is no darkness but ignorance. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
There’s place and means for every man alive. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
They do not love that do not show their love. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
They say miracles are past. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
This above all; to thine own self be true. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Time and the hour run through the roughest day. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
’Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
’Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
’Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
’Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
To be, or not to be: that is the question. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
To do a great right do a little wrong. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping? <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
We know what we are, but know not what we may be. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she’s a good wench for this gear. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
What is past is prologue. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
What’s done can’t be undone. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Women may fall when there’s no strength in men. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Words without thoughts never to heaven go. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Business, that’s easily defined - it’s other people’s money. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Efficiency is doing better what is already being done. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them ’operators’ or ’programmers.’ <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don’t. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives’ decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Never mind your happiness; do your duty. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the "naturals," the ones who somehow know how to teach. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
The best way to predict the future is to create it. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
The computer is a moron. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
The most efficient way to produce anything is to bring together under one management as many as possible of the activities needed to turn out the product. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
The purpose of a business is to create a customer. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Drucker</i></font>
Computers in classrooms are the filmstrips of the 1990s. <font color=778899><i>§ Clifford Stoll</i></font>
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom. <font color=778899><i>§ Clifford Stoll</i></font>
Here’s how a tight group of online pioneers created a virtual neighbourhood which now transcends political, social, and economic strata. <font color=778899><i>§ Clifford Stoll</i></font>
Human kindness, warmth, interaction, friendship, and family are far more important than anything that can come across my cathode-ray tube. <font color=778899><i>§ Clifford Stoll</i></font>
I’ve got a half-dozen computers in my house. But this cult of computing gives me the heebie-jeebies. <font color=778899><i>§ Clifford Stoll</i></font>
If you don’t have an E-mail address, you’re in the Netherworld. If you don’t have your own World Wide Web page, you’re a nobody. <font color=778899><i>§ Clifford Stoll</i></font>
Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world. <font color=778899><i>§ Clifford Stoll</i></font>
Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community. <font color=778899><i>§ Clifford Stoll</i></font>
Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you’re no longer hungry, but you haven’t been nourished. <font color=778899><i>§ Clifford Stoll</i></font>
The Internet is a telephone system that’s gotten uppity. <font color=778899><i>§ Clifford Stoll</i></font>
The problem with intelligent agents and filters is that they can never do anything more than a crude approximation of my desires and wants. <font color=778899><i>§ Clifford Stoll</i></font>
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don’t let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. <font color=778899><i>§ Clifford Stoll</i></font>
When I’m online, I’m alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube. <font color=778899><i>§ Clifford Stoll</i></font>
While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language. <font color=778899><i>§ Clifford Stoll</i></font>
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? <font color=778899><i>§ Clifford Stoll</i></font>
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You’d be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
Creationists make it sound as though a ’theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn’t, I would die. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
It is not only the living who are killed in war. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what’s right. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn’t look up. Well, maybe once. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ’Eureka!’ but ’That’s funny...’ <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not ’Eureka!’ (I found it!) but ’That’s funny.’ <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
To insult someone we call him "bestial". For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. <font color=778899><i>§ Isaac Asimov</i></font>
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. <font color=778899><i>§ Francois De La Rochefoucauld</i></font>
A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure. <font color=778899><i>§ Lee Segall</i></font>
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. <font color=778899><i>§ Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland</i></font>
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. <font color=778899><i>§ Andre Gide</i></font>
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. <font color=778899><i>§ Aesop</i></font>
Only that in you which is me can hear what I’m saying. <font color=778899><i>§ Baba Ram Dass</i></font>
I am a part of all that I have met. <font color=778899><i>§ Alfred Lord Tennyson</i></font>
There’s more to the truth than just the facts. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. <font color=778899><i>§ Polish Proverb</i></font>
Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. <font color=778899><i>§ Ludwig Börne</i></font>
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky? <font color=778899><i>§ Stanislaw J. Lec</i></font>
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. <font color=778899><i>§ Edward R. Murrow</i></font>
We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it. <font color=778899><i>§ Albert Szent-Györgyi</i></font>
Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. <font color=778899><i>§ Edward Albee</i></font>
When the student is ready, the master appears. <font color=778899><i>§ Buddhist Proverb</i></font>
A gun gives you the body, not the bird. <font color=778899><i>§ Henry David Thoreau</i></font>
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. <font color=778899><i>§ Zen Buddhist Proverb</i></font>
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. <font color=778899><i>§ Henry David Thoreau</i></font>
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. <font color=778899><i>§ Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams</i></font>
I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. <font color=778899><i>§ Charles C. Finn</i></font>
Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! <font color=778899><i>§ Thomas Carlyle</i></font>
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. <font color=778899><i>§ Zen Saying</i></font>
The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? <font color=778899><i>§ Chuang Tzu </i></font>
By daily dying I have come to be. <font color=778899><i>§ Theodore Roethke</i></font>
There are some remedies worse than the disease. <font color=778899><i>§ Publilius Syrus</i></font>
You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. <font color=778899><i>§ William Blake, Proverbs of Hell</i></font>
It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. <font color=778899><i>§ John L. McClenahan</i></font>
What you see, yet can not see over, is as good as infinite. <font color=778899><i>§ Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, chapter 1</i></font>
Philosophy is life’s dry-nurse, who can take care of us - but not suckle us. <font color=778899><i>§ Soren Kierkegaard</i></font>
One man’s quiet is another man’s din. <font color=778899><i>§ Carrie Latet</i></font>
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. <font color=778899><i>§ Henry David Thoreau</i></font>
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. <font color=778899><i>§ Henri Louis Bergson</i></font>
If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible. <font color=778899><i>§ Ram Dass</i></font>
The fly that doesn’t want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. <font color=778899><i>§ G.C. Lichtenberg</i></font>
Don’t miss the donut by looking through the hole. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. <font color=778899><i>§ Navajo Proverb</i></font>
Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. <font color=778899><i>§ Heraclitus, Eustathius ad Iliad</i></font>
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. <font color=778899><i>§ John Burroughs</i></font>
Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me. <font color=778899><i>§ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin</i></font>
Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.<br />"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.<br />"I don’t know," Alice answered.<br />"Then," said the cat, "it doesn’t matter".<br /> <font color=778899><i>§ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland</i></font>
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind. <font color=778899><i>§ John Lancaster Spalding</i></font>
The map is not the territory. <font color=778899><i>§ Alfred Korzybski</i></font>
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head. <font color=778899><i>§ Terry Josephson</i></font>
Would there be this eternal seeking if the found existed? <font color=778899><i>§ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin</i></font>
If you’re going to tickle, use a feather not a whip. <font color=778899><i>§ Audrey Foris, C’est l’esprit du coq rouge (Red Rooster Musings, trans.)</i></font>
He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. <font color=778899><i>§ Marcus Aurelius</i></font>
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. <font color=778899><i>§ Russian Proverb</i></font>
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself. <font color=778899><i>§ Bertrand Russell</i></font>
Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. <font color=778899><i>§ Roger Miller</i></font>
The obstacle is the path. <font color=778899><i>§ Zen Proverb</i></font>
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. <font color=778899><i>§ James Thurber</i></font>
It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch. <font color=778899><i>§ Chang Ch’ao</i></font>
You cannot step into the same river twice. <font color=778899><i>§ Heraclitus, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives</i></font>
You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you. <font color=778899><i>§ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin</i></font>
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem. <font color=778899><i>§ Alexander Jodorowsky</i></font>
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? <font color=778899><i>§ George Gordon, Lord Byron, Child Harold’s Pilgrimage</i></font>
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases. <font color=778899><i>§ Hippocrates, Aphorisms</i></font>
If a placebo has an effect, is it any less real than the real thing? <font color=778899><i>§ Nathaniel LeTonnerre</i></font>
It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place. <font color=778899><i>§ Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, 1872</i></font>
We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still. <font color=778899><i>§ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960</i></font>
You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. <font color=778899><i>§ Aleister Crowley, Book of Lies</i></font>
You can see a lot by just looking. <font color=778899><i>§ Yogi Berra</i></font>
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. <font color=778899><i>§ Leo Rosten</i></font>
Who depends on another man’s table often dines late. <font color=778899><i>§ John Ray</i></font>
Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing. <font color=778899><i>§ Jean Paul Sartre, Nausea</i></font>
You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. <font color=778899><i>§ Antoine de Saint-Exup&eacute;ry, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard</i></font>
When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor. <font color=778899><i>§ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960</i></font>
A thousand men can’t undress a naked man. <font color=778899><i>§ Greek Proverb</i></font>
I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it. <font color=778899><i>§ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin</i></font>
We often repent the good we have done as well as the ill. <font color=778899><i>§ William Hazlitt, Characteristics, 1823</i></font>
When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time. <font color=778899><i>§ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin</i></font>
The scars you can’t see are the hardest to heal. <font color=778899><i>§ Astrid Alauda</i></font>
The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. <font color=778899><i>§ Buddha</i></font>
We become aware of the void as we fill it. <font color=778899><i>§ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin</i></font>
If I make the lashes dark<br />And the eyes more bright<br />And the lips more scarlet,<br />Or ask if all be right<br />From mirror after mirror,<br />No vanity’s displayed:<br />I’m looking for the face I had<br />Before the world was made.<br /><font color=778899><i>§ W.B. Yeats</i></font>
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. <font color=778899><i>§ Santayana, Essays</i></font>
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. <font color=778899><i>§ Niels Bohr</i></font>
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. <font color=778899><i>§ Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955</i></font>
Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? <font color=778899><i>§ Maurice Freehill</i></font>
I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced. <font color=778899><i>§ Henry David Thoreau, "Solitude," Walden, 1854</i></font>
Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for! <font color=778899><i>§ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin</i></font>
Eggs cannot be unscrambled. <font color=778899><i>§ American Proverb</i></font>
A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. <font color=778899><i>§ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin</i></font>
The road was new to me, as roads always are going back. <font color=778899><i>§ Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country Road of Pointed Firs, 1896</i></font>
Admiration and familiarity are strangers. <font color=778899><i>§ George Sand</i></font>
We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about "and". <font color=778899><i>§ Arthur Stanley Eddington</i></font>
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. <font color=778899><i>§ Zen</i></font>
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. <font color=778899><i>§ Eric Berne</i></font>
Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. <font color=778899><i>§ Jean Baptiste Moliere, Le Malade Imaginaire</i></font>
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. <font color=778899><i>§ Aldous Huxley</i></font>
I doubt one could live in the darkness, but one could probably survive. <font color=778899><i>§ Nathaniel LeTonnerre</i></font>
Skin is a covering for our immortality. <font color=778899><i>§ Ever Garrison</i></font>
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. <font color=778899><i>§ Georg Hegel</i></font>
When I break any of the chains that bind me I feel that I make myself smaller. <font color=778899><i>§ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin</i></font>
We are spirits clad in veils. <font color=778899><i>§ Christopher P. Cranch</i></font>
If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am? <font color=778899><i>§ John Lancaster Spalding</i></font>
Before I travelled my road I was my road. <font color=778899><i>§ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin</i></font>
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. <font color=778899><i>§ Francis Bacon</i></font>
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. <font color=778899><i>§ Stanislaus I of Poland</i></font>
The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. <font color=778899><i>§ H.L. Mencken</i></font>
The future influences the present just as much as the past. <font color=778899><i>§ Friedrich Nietzsche</i></font>
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. <font color=778899><i>§ John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911</i></font>
One does what one is; one becomes what one does. <font color=778899><i>§ Robert von Musil, Kleine Prosa</i></font>
You can’t fall off the floor. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future. <font color=778899><i>§ Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion</i></font>
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. <font color=778899><i>§ Robert M. Pirsig</i></font>
A stumble may prevent a fall. <font color=778899><i>§ English Proverb</i></font>
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. <font color=778899><i>§ Friedrich Nietzche</i></font>
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. <font color=778899><i>§ Matsuo Basho</i></font>
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don’t have in my mouth. <font color=778899><i>§ Albert Einstein</i></font>
Philosophy is nothing but common sense in a dress suit. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself. <font color=778899><i>§ Socrates, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives</i></font>
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. <font color=778899><i>§ Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary</i></font>
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. <font color=778899><i>§ Martin L. Gross, A Call for Revolution, 1993</i></font>
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. <font color=778899><i>§ Bertrand Russell</i></font>
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy. <font color=778899><i>§ Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651</i></font>
Philosophy is just a hobby. You can’t open a philosophy factory. <font color=778899><i>§ Dewey Selmon</i></font>
The natural philosophers are mostly gone. We modern scientists are adding too many decimals. <font color=778899><i>§ Martin H. Fischer</i></font>
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both. <font color=778899><i>§ Ralph Waldo Emerson</i></font>
My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down. <font color=778899><i>§ Louisa May Alcott, in Life, Letters, and Journals, ed. E.D. Cheney, 1889</i></font>
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. <font color=778899><i>§ Alfred North Whitehead</i></font>
If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera. <font color=778899><i>§ John Rich</i></font>
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. <font color=778899><i>§ Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams</i></font>
Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see. <font color=778899><i>§ George Berkeley</i></font>
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher. <font color=778899><i>§ Friedrich Nietzsche</i></font>
And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action. And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace. <font color=778899><i>§ Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, "Book X: Pleasure and Happiness," translated by W.D. Ross</i></font>
Being a philosopher, I have a problem for every solution. <font color=778899><i>§ Robert Zend</i></font>
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. <font color=778899><i>§ Immanuel Kant</i></font>
Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations. <font color=778899><i>§ Aldous Huxley, Themes and Variations, 1950</i></font>
Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. <font color=778899><i>§ Nicolas Chamfort, Maximes et pense&eacute;s</i></font>
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the future calculable, at least in its main outlines. <font color=778899><i>§ Bertrand Russell</i></font>
To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do. <font color=778899><i>§ Bertrand Russell</i></font>
Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings. <font color=778899><i>§ John Keats</i></font>
If you’ve never met a student from the University of Chicago, I’ll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, "This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?" And eventually he dies of thirst. <font color=778899><i>§ Shelley Berman</i></font>
What is the first business of philosophy? To part with self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks that he already knows. <font color=778899><i>§ Epictetus, Discourses</i></font>
Philosophy is a state of fermentation, a process without final outcome. <font color=778899><i>§ Esa Saarinen</i></font>
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize. <font color=778899><i>§ Blaise Pascal, Pens&eacute;es, 1670</i></font>
We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier. <font color=778899><i>§ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960</i></font>
Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings,<br />Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,<br />Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine -<br />Unweave a rainbow.<br /><font color=778899><i>§ John Keats, "Lamia," 1819</i></font>
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy. <font color=778899><i>§ Woody Allen</i></font>
I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits. <font color=778899><i>§ Jean Jacques Rousseau</i></font>
The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word "fuck". <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it’s like gold; after you understand it, it’s like dung. <font color=778899><i>§ Zen Saying</i></font>
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. <font color=778899><i>§ La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678</i></font>
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. <font color=778899><i>§ Ambrose Bierce, The Enlarged Devil’s Dictionary</i></font>
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. <font color=778899><i>§ Mother Teresa</i></font>
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. <font color=778899><i>§ Albert Einstein</i></font>
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip. <font color=778899><i>§ Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"</i></font>
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. <font color=778899><i>§ Ovid</i></font>
Infatuation is when you think he’s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is when you realize that he’s as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford - but you’ll take him anyway. <font color=778899><i>§ Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975</i></font>
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. <font color=778899><i>§ W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer’s Notebook, 1949</i></font>
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. <font color=778899><i>§ Antoine de Saint-Exup&eacute;ry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere</i></font>
When love is not madness, it is not love. <font color=778899><i>§ Pedro Calderon de la Barca</i></font>
Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. <font color=778899><i>§ Malagasy Proverb</i></font>
You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
For you see, each day I love you more<br />Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.<br /><font color=778899><i>§ Rosemonde Gerard</i></font>
Forget love - I’d rather fall in chocolate! <font color=778899><i>§ Sandra J. Dykes</i></font>
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. <font color=778899><i>§ Mark Overby</i></font>
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. <font color=778899><i>§ Proverb</i></font>
The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. <font color=778899><i>§ Theodor Reik, Of Love and Lust, 1957</i></font>
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. <font color=778899><i>§ Peter Ustinov</i></font>
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. <font color=778899><i>§ Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966</i></font>
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,<br />And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.<br /><font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night’s Dream, 1595</i></font>
The art of love... is largely the art of persistence. <font color=778899><i>§ Albert Ellis</i></font>
Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that. <font color=778899><i>§ Michael Leunig</i></font>
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. <font color=778899><i>§ Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524</i></font>
Who, being loved, is poor? <font color=778899><i>§ Oscar Wilde</i></font>
Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. <font color=778899><i>§ Henry David Thoreau</i></font>
Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. <font color=778899><i>§ Laurence Marks, M*A*S*H, "Love Story," original air date 7 January 1973, spoken by the character Hawkeye</i></font>
A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. <font color=778899><i>§ Frank A. Clark</i></font>
Shall we compare our hearts to a garden -<br />with beautiful blooms, straggling weeds,<br />swooping birds and sunshine, rain -<br />and most importantly, seeds.<br /><font color=778899><i>§ Grey Livingston</i></font>
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. <font color=778899><i>§ Robert Heinlein</i></font>
The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. <font color=778899><i>§ George Moore</i></font>
We loved with a love that was more than love. <font color=778899><i>§ Edgar Allan Poe</i></font>
If I love you, what business is it of yours? <font color=778899><i>§ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</i></font>
The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. <font color=778899><i>§ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960</i></font>
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. <font color=778899><i>§ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld</i></font>
My debt to you, Belov&egrave;d,<br />Is one I cannot pay<br />In any coin of any realm<br />On any reckoning day.<br /><font color=778899><i>§ Jessie B. Rittenhouse</i></font>
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter. <font color=778899><i>§ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960</i></font>
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. <font color=778899><i>§ Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self</i></font>
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. <font color=778899><i>§ Jean Anouilh</i></font>
When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage. <font color=778899><i>§ Bill Balance</i></font>
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. <font color=778899><i>§ Rose Franken</i></font>
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat. <font color=778899><i>§ Ben Hecht</i></font>
A bell is no bell ’til you ring it,<br />A song is no song ’til you sing it,<br />And love in your heart<br />Wasn’t put there to stay -<br />Love isn’t love<br />’Til you give it away.<br /><font color=778899><i>§ Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"</i></font>
Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies. <font color=778899><i>§ Swedish Proverb</i></font>
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 eternity. <font color=778899><i>§ Henry Van Dyke</i></font>
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. <font color=778899><i>§ Judith Viorst, Redbook, 1975</i></font>
Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place. <font color=778899><i>§ Ice T, The Ice Opinion, quoted in Reader’s Digest, "Quotable Quotes," February 2002</i></font>
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. <font color=778899><i>§ Lord Dewar</i></font>
When you’re in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. <font color=778899><i>§ Natalie Clifford Barney</i></font>
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves. <font color=778899><i>§ John Bulwer</i></font>
’Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come. <font color=778899><i>§ Lord Byron</i></font>
A hundred hearts would be too few<br />To carry all my love for you.<br /><font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots. <font color=778899><i>§ Author unknown, as printed in The Hoosier Farmer</i></font>
Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke. <font color=778899><i>§ Lynda Barry</i></font>
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies. <font color=778899><i>§ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891</i></font>
Love is not singular except in syllable. <font color=778899><i>§ Marvin Taylor</i></font>
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old. <font color=778899><i>§ John Ciardi</i></font>
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. <font color=778899><i>§ Douglas Yates</i></font>
Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little. <font color=778899><i>§ Hannah Moore</i></font>
Ah me! why may not love and life be one? <font color=778899><i>§ Henry Timrod</i></font>
Take away love and our earth is a tomb. <font color=778899><i>§ Robert Browning</i></font>
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXVI"</i></font>
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. <font color=778899><i>§ Leo Tolstoy</i></font>
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. <font color=778899><i>§ Marguerite de Valois</i></font>
You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from. <font color=778899><i>§ Werner Erhard</i></font>
No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it. <font color=778899><i>§ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960</i></font>
Love me and the world is mine. <font color=778899><i>§ David Reed</i></font>
It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. <font color=778899><i>§ Paul Val&eacute;ry, Tel quel, 1943</i></font>
The love game is never called off on account of darkness. <font color=778899><i>§ Tom Masson</i></font>
They who meet on an April night are forever lost in love, if there’s moonlight all about and no moon above. <font color=778899><i>§ Author unknown, heard in a song</i></font>
Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. <font color=778899><i>§ David Byrne</i></font>
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. <font color=778899><i>§ Robert Frost</i></font>
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. <font color=778899><i>§ Zora Neale Hurston</i></font>
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. <font color=778899><i>§ Emily Bront&euml;</i></font>
The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. <font color=778899><i>§ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960</i></font>
An old man in love is like a flower in winter. <font color=778899><i>§ Portuguese Proverb</i></font>
Will you love me in December as you do in May,<br />Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?<br />When my hair has all turned gray,<br />Will you kiss me then and say,<br />That you love me in December as you do in May?<br /><font color=778899><i>§ James J. Walker</i></font>
Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren’t even there before. <font color=778899><i>§ Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966</i></font>
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. <font color=778899><i>§ Honor&eacute; de Balzac</i></font>
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear: it is there most pure, perfect, and unlimited where its votaries live in confidence, equality and unreserve. <font color=778899><i>§ Percy Bysshe Shelley</i></font>
Love is the poetry of the senses. <font color=778899><i>§ Honor&eacute; de Balzac</i></font>
Love is a game that two can play and both win. <font color=778899><i>§ Eva Gabor</i></font>
Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite’s dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it. <font color=778899><i>§ Francis Quarles, Emblems</i></font>
Love is like those second-rate hotels where all the luxury is in the lobby. <font color=778899><i>§ Paul-Jean Toulet</i></font>
We don’t believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. <font color=778899><i>§ Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism</i></font>
All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men. <font color=778899><i>§ Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966</i></font>
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. <font color=778899><i>§ François, duc de La Rochefoucauld</i></font>
Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can’t. <font color=778899><i>§ Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966</i></font>
Love, and a cough, cannot be hid. <font color=778899><i>§ George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651</i></font>
Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what’s missing. <font color=778899><i>§ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960</i></font>
Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved. <font color=778899><i>§ Christopher Paul Rubero</i></font>
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves. <font color=778899><i>§ Latin Proverb</i></font>
The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together. <font color=778899><i>§ Antoine de Saint-Exup&eacute;ry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate</i></font>
I need the starshine of your heavenly eyes,<br />After the day’s great sun.<br /><font color=778899><i>§ Charles Hanson Towne</i></font>
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. <font color=778899><i>§ Nicholas de Chamfort</i></font>
Love is not consolation. It is light. <font color=778899><i>§ Friedrich Nietzsche</i></font>
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. <font color=778899><i>§ Erich Segal</i></font>
Loving is never a waste of time. <font color=778899><i>§ Astrid Alauda</i></font>
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. <font color=778899><i>§ Fyodor Dostoevski</i></font>
True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. <font color=778899><i>§ William Butler Yeats</i></font>
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. <font color=778899><i>§ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960</i></font>
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody. <font color=778899><i>§ James Thurber, quoted in Life magazine, 1960</i></font>
Love is being stupid together. <font color=778899><i>§ Paul Valery</i></font>
In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. <font color=778899><i>§ Charles Baudelaire</i></font>
Open your heart and take us in, Love - love and me. <font color=778899><i>§ W.E. Henley</i></font>
Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times. <font color=778899><i>§ Rita Rudner</i></font>
Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so. <font color=778899><i>§ Charles du Bos</i></font>
I love you like crazy, baby ’Cuz I’d go crazy without you. <font color=778899><i>§ Pixie Foudre</i></font>
What "love" is I don’t know if it’s not the response of our deepest natures to one another. <font color=778899><i>§ William Carlos Williams</i></font>
Ah, lady, when I gave my heart to thee,<br />It passed into thy lifelong regency.<br /><font color=778899><i>§ Gilbert Parker</i></font>
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. <font color=778899><i>§ Blaise Pascal, Pens&eacute;es, 1670</i></font>
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. <font color=778899><i>§ Plato</i></font>
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable. <font color=778899><i>§ Bruce Lee</i></font>
Tell me how many beads there are<br />In a silver chain<br />Of evening rain,<br />Unravelled from the tumbling main,<br />And threading the eye of a yellow star: -<br />So many times do I love again.<br /><font color=778899><i>§ Thomas Lovell Beddoes</i></font>
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. <font color=778899><i>§ George Jean Nathan</i></font>
Love makes time pass; time makes love pass. <font color=778899><i>§ French Proverb</i></font>
True love stories never have endings. <font color=778899><i>§ Richard Bach</i></font>
I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is. <font color=778899><i>§ Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin</i></font>
There’s nothing more freeing than the shackles of love. <font color=778899><i>§ Emma Racine deFleur</i></font>
When you’re attracted to someone it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subconscious, subconsciously, so what we know as fate is two neuroses knowing that they’re a perfect match. <font color=778899><i>§ Jeff Arch, Nora Ephron, and David S. Ward, Sleepless in Seattle</i></font>
Platonic love is love from the neck up. <font color=778899><i>§ Thyra Smater Winsolow</i></font>
We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love. <font color=778899><i>§ Tom Robbins</i></font>
The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. <font color=778899><i>§ Margaret Atwood</i></font>
You really shouldn’t say "I love you" unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget. <font color=778899><i>§ Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Jessica</i></font>
So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. <font color=778899><i>§ John Milton</i></font>
Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. <font color=778899><i>§ Zelda Fitzgerald</i></font>
Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. <font color=778899><i>§ V.F. Calverton</i></font>
Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too. <font color=778899><i>§ Author unknown, attributed to an 8-year-old named Greg</i></font>
Lust fades, so you’d better be with someone who can stand you. <font color=778899><i>§ Alan Zweibel and Jessie Nelson, The Story of Us</i></font>
Ah! a blessing beyond all fate<br />My sole mate ’tis my soul mate.<br /><font color=778899><i>§ Pixie Foudre</i></font>
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. <font color=778899><i>§ Victor Hugo</i></font>
Love is the greatest refreshment in life. <font color=778899><i>§ Pablo Picasso</i></font>
I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they’re not much to look at, or even if they’re sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. <font color=778899><i>§ J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1945</i></font>
Love means nothing in tennis, but it’s everything in life. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work. <font color=778899><i>§ Pearl Bailey</i></font>
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. <font color=778899><i>§ Germaine Greer</i></font>
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. <font color=778899><i>§ W. Somerset Maugham</i></font>
We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. <font color=778899><i>§ Voltaire</i></font>
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. <font color=778899><i>§ William Shakespeare</i></font>
While God waits for His temple to be built of love, men bring stones. <font color=778899><i>§ Rabindranath Tagore</i></font>
Love is metaphysical gravity. <font color=778899><i>§ R. Buckminster Fuller</i></font>
Love is my religion - I could die for it. <font color=778899><i>§ John Keats</i></font>
Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex. <font color=778899><i>§ Dan Greenburg</i></font>
Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
Just because somebody doesn’t love you the way you want them to, doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart. <font color=778899><i>§ Kay Knudsen</i></font>
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. <font color=778899><i>§ Henry Louis Mencken</i></font>
You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
True love is when you put someone on a pedestal, and they fall - but you are there to catch them. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
You know when you have found your prince because you not only have a smile on your face but in your heart as well. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
Love puts the fun in together, the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
Trip over love, you can get up. Fall in love and you fall forever. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
Love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image... otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. <font color=778899><i>§ Julins Gordon</i></font>
To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved. <font color=778899><i>§ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960</i></font>
It’s so easy to fall in love but hard to find someone who will catch you. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. <font color=778899><i>§ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray</i></font>
Candle light, moon light, star light, The brightest glow is from love light. <font color=778899><i>§ Grey Livingston</i></font>
Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name. <font color=778899><i>§ Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960</i></font>
Come live in my heart and pay no rent. <font color=778899><i>§ Samuel Lover</i></font>
Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. <font color=778899><i>§ Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons</i></font>
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. <font color=778899><i>§ Emma Goldman, The Tragedy of Women’s Emancipation</i></font>
I but know that I love thee, whatever thou art. <font color=778899><i>§ Thomas Moore</i></font>
Love isn’t blind, it’s retarded. <font color=778899><i>§ Don Foster and Susan Beavers, Two and a Half Men</i></font>
Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. <font color=778899><i>§ Emma Goldman, Marriage and Love</i></font>
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. <font color=778899><i>§ Miguel de Unamuno</i></font>
If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. <font color=778899><i>§ Michel de Montaigne</i></font>
I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. <font color=778899><i>§ Javan</i></font>
Like I’ve always said, love wouldn’t be blind if the braille weren’t so damned much fun. <font color=778899><i>§ Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon</i></font>
Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men’s behavior is measured with a feminine ruler. <font color=778899><i>§ Francesca M. Cancian</i></font>
What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. <font color=778899><i>§ Claudia Ghandi</i></font>
Falling in love is so hard on the knees. <font color=778899><i>§ Aerosmith</i></font>
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. <font color=778899><i>§ Hans Nouwens</i></font>
Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages. <font color=778899><i>§ Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain, 1922</i></font>
In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion or kisses whizzing by your head. <font color=778899><i>§ Emma Racine deFleur</i></font>
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. <font color=778899><i>§ G.K. Chesterton</i></font>
I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night. <font color=778899><i>§ Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes</i></font>
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. <font color=778899><i>§ George Bernard Shaw</i></font>
The simple lack of her is more to me than others’ presence. <font color=778899><i>§ Edward Thomas</i></font>
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. <font color=778899><i>§ Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally</i></font>
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. <font color=778899><i>§ Ralph Waldo Emerson</i></font>
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. <font color=778899><i>§ Confucius</i></font>
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. <font color=778899><i>§ Ralph Waldo Emerson</i></font>
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. <font color=778899><i>§ Les Brown</i></font>
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. <font color=778899><i>§ Flavia Weedn, Forever, &copy; Flavia.com</i></font>
Just about a month from now I’m set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. <font color=778899><i>§ Richard Halliburton</i></font>
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises". Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning. <font color=778899><i>§ Orrin Hatch</i></font>
Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. <font color=778899><i>§ Wendy Wasserstein</i></font>
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. <font color=778899><i>§ e.e. Cummings, 1955</i></font>
Put your future in good hands - your own. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. <font color=778899><i>§ Milton Berle</i></font>
Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. <font color=778899><i>§ From the television show The Wonder Years</i></font>
When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you’ve got plenty to watch. <font color=778899><i>§ Author unknown, from a television commercial</i></font>
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while you could miss it. <font color=778899><i>§ From the movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off</i></font>
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. <font color=778899><i>§ J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1922</i></font>
How did it get so late so soon?<br />It’s night before it’s afternoon.<br />December is here before it’s June.<br />My goodness how the time has flewn.<br />How did it get so late so soon?<br /><font color=778899><i>§ Dr. Seuss</i></font>
We do not remember days; we remember moments. <font color=778899><i>§ Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand</i></font>
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. <font color=778899><i>§ John Lennon</i></font>
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. <font color=778899><i>§ Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996</i></font>
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. <font color=778899><i>§ Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book</i></font>
What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. <font color=778899><i>§ Eleanor Powell</i></font>
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. <font color=778899><i>§ Seneca</i></font>
Friendship isn’t a big thing - it’s a million little things. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. <font color=778899><i>§ Mark Twain</i></font>
There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days. <font color=778899><i>§ Isabel Waxman</i></font>
A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. <font color=778899><i>§ David Frost</i></font>
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. <font color=778899><i>§ James Dean</i></font>
Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go. <font color=778899><i>§ Henry Austin Dobson</i></font>
Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
Friends are relatives you make for yourself. <font color=778899><i>§ Eustache Deschamps</i></font>
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. <font color=778899><i>§ Elisabeth Foley</i></font>
Don’t let anyone steal your dream. It’s your dream, not theirs. <font color=778899><i>§ Dan Zadra</i></font>
If at first you don’t succeed, do it like your mother told you. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools. <font color=778899><i>§ Author Unknown</i></font>
The language of friendship is not words but meanings. <font color=778899><i>§ Henry David Thoreau</i></font>
It takes a long time to grow an old friend. <font color=778899><i>§ John Leonard</i></font>
It doesn’t make much difference what you study, as long as you don’t like it. <font color=778899><i>§ Finley Peter Dunne</i></font>
We have been friends together, in sunshine and in shade. <font color=778899><i>§ Caroline Sheridan Norton</i></font>
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. <font color=778899><i>§ Theodore Roosevelt</i></font>
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. <font color=778899><i>§ Nelson Henderson</i></font>
May the sun shine, all day long,<br />everything go right, and nothing wrong.<br />May those you love bring love back to you,<br />and may all the wishes you wish come true!<br /><font color=778899><i>§ Irish Blessing</i></font>
Success: 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! <font color=778899><i>§ Ralph Waldo Emerson</i></font>