'In Extremis' L-I-G-H-T


A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.
Howard Gardner

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.
Howard Gardner

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.
Howard Gardner

If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.
Howard Gardner

Stories are the single most powerful tool in a leader's toolkit.
Howard Gardner

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.
Howard Gardner

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.
Howard Gardner



A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.
Milton Friedman

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
Milton Friedman

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
Milton Friedman

Governments never learn. Only people learn.
Milton Friedman

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.
Milton Friedman

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
Milton Friedman

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
Milton Friedman

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
Milton Friedman

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman

Inflation is taxation without legislation.
Milton Friedman

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
Milton Friedman

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
Milton Friedman

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Milton Friedman

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
Milton Friedman

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
Milton Friedman

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.
Milton Friedman

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Milton Friedman

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.
Milton Friedman

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Milton Friedman

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Milton Friedman

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
Milton Friedman

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
Milton Friedman

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
Milton Friedman

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
Milton Friedman

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.
Milton Friedman

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
Milton Friedman

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
Milton Friedman

There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Milton Friedman

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
Milton Friedman

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Milton Friedman

A symphony is no joke.
Johannes Brahms

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
Johannes Brahms

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.
Johannes Brahms

If there is anyone here whom I have not insulted, I beg his pardon.
Johannes Brahms

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
Johannes Brahms

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.
Johannes Brahms

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
Johannes Brahms

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.
Johannes Brahms

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.
Johannes Brahms

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.
Nelson Rockefeller

It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it.
Nelson Rockefeller

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Nelson Rockefeller

The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.
Nelson Rockefeller

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.
Nelson Rockefeller

There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look".
Nelson Rockefeller

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
Nelson Rockefeller

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
Barbara Walters

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
Barbara Walters

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
Barbara Walters

Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
Barbara Walters

And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.
Barbara Walters

Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
Barbara Walters

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
Barbara Walters

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
Barbara Walters

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
Barbara Walters

Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
Barbara Walters

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
Barbara Walters

I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
Barbara Walters

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
Barbara Walters

I didn't have a very religious family.
Barbara Walters

I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
Barbara Walters

I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
Barbara Walters

If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.
Barbara Walters

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
Barbara Walters

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
Barbara Walters

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
Barbara Walters

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
Barbara Walters

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
Barbara Walters

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
Barbara Walters

Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
Barbara Walters

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
Barbara Walters

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
Barbara Walters

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
Barbara Walters

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
Barbara Walters

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
Barbara Walters

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
Barbara Walters

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland

Behind every cloud is another cloud.
Judy Garland

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Judy Garland

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.
Judy Garland

I can live without money, but I cannot live without love.
Judy Garland

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die.
Judy Garland

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
Judy Garland

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
Judy Garland

I'm the original take-orders girl.
Judy Garland

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.
Judy Garland

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
Judy Garland

I've seen the ticket, and I still can't believe it. When I see the money, I hope I don't hit the floor.
Judy Garland

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?
Judy Garland

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.
Judy Garland

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.
Judy Garland

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
Judy Garland

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.
Judy Garland

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.
Judy Garland

'Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul.
Judy Garland

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.
Judy Garland

I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.
Lew Wasserman

I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.
Lew Wasserman

I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.
Lew Wasserman

I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally.
Lew Wasserman

Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.
Lew Wasserman

President Johnson offered the middle of the road.
Lew Wasserman

That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.
Lew Wasserman

Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.
Lew Wasserman

To me, it's the White House and always will be.
Lew Wasserman

We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.
Lew Wasserman

Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing.
Lew Wasserman

You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship.
Lew Wasserman

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
George Bernard Shaw

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
George Bernard Shaw

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
George Bernard Shaw

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
George Bernard Shaw

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
George Bernard Shaw

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
George Bernard Shaw

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
George Bernard Shaw

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw

An index is a great leveller.
George Bernard Shaw

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw

Better never than late.
George Bernard Shaw

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard Shaw

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
George Bernard Shaw

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
George Bernard Shaw

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
George Bernard Shaw

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
George Bernard Shaw

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
George Bernard Shaw

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw

General consultant to mankind.
George Bernard Shaw

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw

Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
George Bernard Shaw

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
George Bernard Shaw

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
George Bernard Shaw

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
George Bernard Shaw

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
George Bernard Shaw

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
George Bernard Shaw

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
George Bernard Shaw

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
George Bernard Shaw

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw

I want to be all used up when I die.
George Bernard Shaw

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard Shaw

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
George Bernard Shaw

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
George Bernard Shaw

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
George Bernard Shaw

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
George Bernard Shaw

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
George Bernard Shaw

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
George Bernard Shaw

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
George Bernard Shaw

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard Shaw

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
George Bernard Shaw

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
George Bernard Shaw

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
George Bernard Shaw

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
George Bernard Shaw

Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard Shaw

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
George Bernard Shaw

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
George Bernard Shaw

Most people do not pray; they only beg.
George Bernard Shaw

My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
George Bernard Shaw

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard Shaw

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard Shaw

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
George Bernard Shaw

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
George Bernard Shaw

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
George Bernard Shaw

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard Shaw

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
George Bernard Shaw

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw

Property is organized robbery.
George Bernard Shaw

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
George Bernard Shaw

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
George Bernard Shaw

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw

Syllables govern the world.
George Bernard Shaw

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard Shaw

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
George Bernard Shaw

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
George Bernard Shaw

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
George Bernard Shaw

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
George Bernard Shaw

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
George Bernard Shaw

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw

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

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard Shaw

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
George Bernard Shaw

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
George Bernard Shaw

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
George Bernard Shaw

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
George Bernard Shaw

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
George Bernard Shaw

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.
George Bernard Shaw

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard Shaw

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
George Bernard Shaw

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
George Bernard Shaw

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
George Bernard Shaw

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
George Bernard Shaw

Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
George Bernard Shaw

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Very few people can afford to be poor.
George Bernard Shaw

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw

Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
George Bernard Shaw

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
George Bernard Shaw

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
George Bernard Shaw

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
George Bernard Shaw

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
George Bernard Shaw

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
George Bernard Shaw

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw

When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard Shaw

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
George Bernard Shaw

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
George Bernard Shaw

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
George Bernard Shaw

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw

Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.
Bertrand Russell

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Bertrand Russell

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
Bertrand Russell

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
Bertrand Russell

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
Bertrand Russell

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Bertrand Russell

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Bertrand Russell

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand Russell

All movements go too far.
Bertrand Russell

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
Bertrand Russell

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.
Bertrand Russell

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Bertrand Russell

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
Bertrand Russell

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
Bertrand Russell

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell

Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
Bertrand Russell

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.
Bertrand Russell

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
Bertrand Russell

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand Russell

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand Russell

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Bertrand Russell

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand Russell

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
Bertrand Russell

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Bertrand Russell

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Bertrand Russell

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Bertrand Russell

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.
Bertrand Russell

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
Bertrand Russell

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
Bertrand Russell

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.
Bertrand Russell

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Bertrand Russell

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.
Bertrand Russell

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand Russell

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand Russell

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
Bertrand Russell

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Russell

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Bertrand Russell

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors.
Bertrand Russell

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
Bertrand Russell

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Bertrand Russell

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
Bertrand Russell

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
Bertrand Russell

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.
Bertrand Russell

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
Bertrand Russell

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
Bertrand Russell

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Bertrand Russell

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Bertrand Russell

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Bertrand Russell

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell

Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
Bertrand Russell

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
Bertrand Russell

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
Bertrand Russell

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Bertrand Russell

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Bertrand Russell

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
Bertrand Russell

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand Russell

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Bertrand Russell

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Bertrand Russell

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
Bertrand Russell

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.
Bertrand Russell

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.
Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.
Bertrand Russell

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Bertrand Russell

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand Russell

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.
Bertrand Russell

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Bertrand Russell

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Bertrand Russell

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell

Sin is geographical.
Bertrand Russell

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.
Bertrand Russell

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
Bertrand Russell

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Bertrand Russell

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Bertrand Russell

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Bertrand Russell

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Bertrand Russell

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Bertrand Russell

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Bertrand Russell

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.
Bertrand Russell

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.
Bertrand Russell

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
Bertrand Russell

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand Russell

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.
Bertrand Russell

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.
Bertrand Russell

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Bertrand Russell

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Bertrand Russell

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
Bertrand Russell

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Bertrand Russell

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
Bertrand Russell

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Bertrand Russell

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Bertrand Russell

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
Bertrand Russell

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand Russell

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Bertrand Russell

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.
Bertrand Russell

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Bertrand Russell

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Bertrand Russell

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is its exact opposite.
Bertrand Russell

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
Bertrand Russell

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?
Bertrand Russell

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
Bertrand Russell

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.
Bertrand Russell

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
Charles Dickens

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
Charles Dickens

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens

A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
Charles Dickens

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles Dickens

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
Charles Dickens

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.
Charles Dickens

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Charles Dickens

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Charles Dickens

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
Charles Dickens

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Charles Dickens

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
Charles Dickens

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.
Charles Dickens

Credit is a system whereby a person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay.
Charles Dickens

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Charles Dickens

Do you spell it with a "V" or a "W"?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
Charles Dickens

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Charles Dickens

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
Charles Dickens

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Charles Dickens

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
Charles Dickens

He would make a lovely corpse.
Charles Dickens

Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
Charles Dickens

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Charles Dickens

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Charles Dickens

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
Charles Dickens

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
Charles Dickens

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Charles Dickens

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
Charles Dickens

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Charles Dickens

It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Charles Dickens

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
Charles Dickens

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Charles Dickens

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Charles Dickens

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
Charles Dickens

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Charles Dickens

No one is useless in the world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else.
Charles Dickens

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
Charles Dickens

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
Charles Dickens

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Charles Dickens

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.
Charles Dickens

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Charles Dickens

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
Charles Dickens

The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Charles Dickens

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.
Charles Dickens

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
Charles Dickens

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
Charles Dickens

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
Charles Dickens

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
Charles Dickens

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles Dickens

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Charles Dickens

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.
Charles Dickens

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
Charles Dickens

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.
Charles Dickens

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens

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

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
Charles Dickens

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Charles Dickens

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
Charles Dickens

We are so very 'umble.
Charles Dickens

We forge the chains we wear in life.
Charles Dickens

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens

When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
Charles Dickens

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.
Charles Dickens

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
Lord Byron

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
Lord Byron

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
Lord Byron

A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
Lord Byron

A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
Lord Byron

Absence - that common cure of love.
Lord Byron

Adversity is the first path to truth.
Lord Byron

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
Lord Byron

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Lord Byron

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
Lord Byron

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord Byron

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lord Byron

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
Lord Byron

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
Lord Byron

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Lord Byron

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
Lord Byron

Fame is the thirst of youth.
Lord Byron

Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.
Lord Byron

Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
Lord Byron

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
Lord Byron

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord Byron

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron

Friendship is Love without his wings!
Lord Byron

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
Lord Byron

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
Lord Byron

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
Lord Byron

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.
Lord Byron

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
Lord Byron

I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
Lord Byron

I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.
Lord Byron

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Lord Byron

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
Lord Byron

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Lord Byron

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
Lord Byron

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
Lord Byron

I love not man the less, but Nature more.
Lord Byron

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
Lord Byron

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.
Lord Byron

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
Lord Byron

If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.
Lord Byron

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.
Lord Byron

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
Lord Byron

In solitude, where we are least alone.
Lord Byron

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.
Lord Byron

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
Lord Byron

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron

Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.
Lord Byron

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
Lord Byron

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Lord Byron

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
Lord Byron

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Lord Byron

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Lord Byron

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Lord Byron

Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Lord Byron

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.
Lord Byron

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord Byron

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
Lord Byron

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
Lord Byron

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other.
Lord Byron

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?
Lord Byron

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
Lord Byron

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
Lord Byron

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron

Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
Lord Byron

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
Lord Byron

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
Lord Byron

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Lord Byron

The 'good old times' - all times when old are good.
Lord Byron

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.
Lord Byron

The busy have no time for tears.
Lord Byron

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
Lord Byron

The dew of compassion is a tear.
Lord Byron

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Lord Byron

The heart will break, but broken live on.
Lord Byron

The place is very well and quiet and the children only scream in a low voice.
Lord Byron

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Lord Byron

There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Lord Byron

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
Lord Byron

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
Lord Byron

They never fail who die in a great cause.
Lord Byron

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
Lord Byron

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
Lord Byron

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
Lord Byron

Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
Lord Byron

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Lord Byron

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
Lord Byron

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron

To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron

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

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.
Lord Byron

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Lord Byron

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.
Lord Byron

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Lord Byron

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.
Lord Byron

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
Lord Byron

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
Lord Byron

Who loves, raves.
Lord Byron

Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
Lord Byron

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
Lord Byron

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
Lord Byron

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Lord Byron

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

A friend i'the court is better than a penny in purse.
William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William Shakespeare

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare

Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
William Shakespeare

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.
William Shakespeare

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare

An overflow of good converts to bad.
William Shakespeare

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William Shakespeare

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
William Shakespeare

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
William Shakespeare

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
William Shakespeare

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
William Shakespeare

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William Shakespeare

Boldness be my friend.
William Shakespeare

Brevity is the soul of wit.
William Shakespeare

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.
William Shakespeare

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
William Shakespeare

By that sin fell the angels.
William Shakespeare

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William Shakespeare

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

Death is a fearful thing.
William Shakespeare

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.
William Shakespeare

Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above.
William Shakespeare

Expectation is the root of all heartache.
William Shakespeare

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
William Shakespeare

Farewell, fair cruelty.
William Shakespeare

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William Shakespeare

For I can raise no money by vile means.
William Shakespeare

For my part, it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.
William Shakespeare

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
William Shakespeare

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare

Give thy thoughts no tongue.
William Shakespeare

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
William Shakespeare

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
William Shakespeare

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
William Shakespeare

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.
William Shakespeare

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
William Shakespeare

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
William Shakespeare

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.
William Shakespeare

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
William Shakespeare

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
William Shakespeare

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
William Shakespeare

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good dead in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
William Shakespeare

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William Shakespeare

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
William Shakespeare

How well he's read, to reason against reading!
William Shakespeare

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
William Shakespeare

I bear a charmed life.
William Shakespeare

I dote on his very absence.
William Shakespeare

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
William Shakespeare

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.
William Shakespeare

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
William Shakespeare

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.
William Shakespeare

I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
William Shakespeare

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
William Shakespeare

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
William Shakespeare

I was adored once too.
William Shakespeare

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare

I will praise any man that will praise me.
William Shakespeare

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.
William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare

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.
William Shakespeare

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.
William Shakespeare

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William Shakespeare

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
William Shakespeare

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?
William Shakespeare

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
William Shakespeare

In time we hate that which we often fear.
William Shakespeare

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
William Shakespeare

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
William Shakespeare

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.
William Shakespeare

Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
William Shakespeare

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
William Shakespeare

Let no such man be trusted.
William Shakespeare

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare

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.
William Shakespeare

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
William Shakespeare

Listen to many, speak to a few.
William Shakespeare

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
William Shakespeare

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
William Shakespeare

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
William Shakespeare

Love is too young to know what conscience is.
William Shakespeare

Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
William Shakespeare

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.
William Shakespeare

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
William Shakespeare

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.
William Shakespeare

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.
William Shakespeare

Men's vows are women's traitors!
William Shakespeare

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
William Shakespeare

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue.
William Shakespeare

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare

My pride fell with my fortunes.
William Shakespeare

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
William Shakespeare

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
William Shakespeare

No legacy is so rich as honesty.
William Shakespeare

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
William Shakespeare

Nothing can come of nothing.
William Shakespeare

Now is the winter of our discontent.
William Shakespeare

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William Shakespeare

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!
William Shakespeare

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
William Shakespeare

O, had I but followed the arts!
William Shakespeare

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
William Shakespeare

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
William Shakespeare

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
William Shakespeare

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
William Shakespeare

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
William Shakespeare

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
William Shakespeare

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
William Shakespeare

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.
William Shakespeare

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
William Shakespeare

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
William Shakespeare

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
William Shakespeare

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
William Shakespeare

Speak low, if you speak love.
William Shakespeare

Such as we are made of, such we be.
William Shakespeare

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
William Shakespeare

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William Shakespeare

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
William Shakespeare

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare

Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
William Shakespeare

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.
William Shakespeare

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
William Shakespeare

The course of true love never did run smooth.
William Shakespeare

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
William Shakespeare

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare

The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
William Shakespeare

The golden age is before us, not behind us.
William Shakespeare

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
William Shakespeare

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.
William Shakespeare

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare

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.
William Shakespeare

The object of art is to give life a shape.
William Shakespeare

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
William Shakespeare

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
William Shakespeare

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.
William Shakespeare

The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
William Shakespeare

The wheel is come full circle.
William Shakespeare

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare

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.
William Shakespeare

There is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
William Shakespeare

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
William Shakespeare

There's many a man has more hair than wit.
William Shakespeare

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
William Shakespeare

There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.
William Shakespeare

There's place and means for every man alive.
William Shakespeare

They do not love that do not show their love.
William Shakespeare

They say miracles are past.
William Shakespeare

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
William Shakespeare

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
William Shakespeare

This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
William Shakespeare

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
William Shakespeare

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.
William Shakespeare

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.
William Shakespeare

'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
William Shakespeare

To be, or not to be: that is the question.
William Shakespeare

To do a great right do a little wrong.
William Shakespeare

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
William Shakespeare

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
William Shakespeare

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
William Shakespeare

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
William Shakespeare

We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
William Shakespeare

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.
William Shakespeare

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.
William Shakespeare

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.
William Shakespeare

What is past is prologue.
William Shakespeare

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
William Shakespeare

What's done can't be undone.
William Shakespeare

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
William Shakespeare

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
William Shakespeare

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
William Shakespeare

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William Shakespeare

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
William Shakespeare

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
William Shakespeare

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
William Shakespeare

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare

Women may fall when there's no strength in men.
William Shakespeare

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
William Shakespeare

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Francis Bacon

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Francis Bacon

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Acorns were good until bread was found.
Francis Bacon

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Francis Bacon

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis Bacon

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon

By indignities men come to dignities.
Francis Bacon

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Francis Bacon

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Francis Bacon

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis Bacon

For also knowledge itself is power.
Francis Bacon

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis Bacon

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
Francis Bacon

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis Bacon

Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis Bacon

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Francis Bacon

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis Bacon

God's first creature, which was light.
Francis Bacon

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Francis Bacon

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Francis Bacon

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Francis Bacon

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis Bacon

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis Bacon

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Francis Bacon

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon

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.
Francis Bacon

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Francis Bacon

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Francis Bacon

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Francis Bacon

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Francis Bacon

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Francis Bacon

It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
Francis Bacon

It is natural to die as to be born.
Francis Bacon

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis Bacon

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon

Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Francis Bacon

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
Francis Bacon

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis Bacon

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis Bacon

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Francis Bacon

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis Bacon

Opportunity makes a thief.
Francis Bacon

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Francis Bacon

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Francis Bacon

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
Francis Bacon

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis Bacon

Science is but an image of the truth.
Francis Bacon

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis Bacon

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon

Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Francis Bacon

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Francis Bacon

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis Bacon

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Francis Bacon

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Francis Bacon

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Francis Bacon

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.
Francis Bacon

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Francis Bacon

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis Bacon

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Francis Bacon

The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Francis Bacon

The remedy is worse than the disease.
Francis Bacon

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis Bacon

The worst men often give the best advice.
Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Francis Bacon

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Francis Bacon

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
Francis Bacon

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Francis Bacon

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Francis Bacon

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis Bacon

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Francis Bacon

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Francis Bacon

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon

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

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Francis Bacon

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Francis Bacon

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis Bacon

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Francis Bacon

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Francis Bacon

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.






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