If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin Franklin
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.
Ernest Hemingway
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
English Proverb
Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
Chuck Palahniuk
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Betty Friedan
We just had a near-life experience!
Chuck Palahniuk
Masochism is a valuable job skill.
Chuck Palahniuk
If you can find humor in anything, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
Chuck Palahniuk
Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.
Chuck Palahniuk
On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer dryer pair.
Chuck Palahniuk
It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.
Chuck Palahniuk
Hysteria is only possible with an audience.
Chuck Palahniuk
It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.
Chuck Palahniuk
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
Chuck Palahniuk
With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels.
Chuck Palahniuk
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
Chuck Palahniuk
Who you are moment to moment is just a story.
Chuck Palahniuk
The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.
Chuck Palahniuk
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Charles Dickens
It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.
Chuck Palahniuk
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
Chuck Palahniuk
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Charles Dickens
When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.
Chuck Palahniuk
Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
Chuck Palahniuk
If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
Chuck Palahniuk
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
Charles Dickens
I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.
Eric Sevareid
The affluent society, with relentless single-minded energy, is turning our cities, most of suburbia and most of our roadways into the most affluent slum on earth.
Eric Sevareid
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
Benjamin Disraeli
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
Bill Cosby
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth.
Alfred North Whitehead
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napoleon Bonaparte
'I may lose land...but I never lose a minute.'
Napoleon Bonaparte
Justice is truth in action.
Benjamin Disraeli
I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
Benjamin Disraeli
Above all things, reverence yourself.
Pythagoras
No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
Benjamin Disraeli
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.
Benjamin Disraeli
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Warren Buffett
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
Benjamin Disraeli
[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Benjamin Disraeli
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
Benjamin Disraeli
Chief of the Army.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is easier to be critical than correct.
Benjamin Disraeli
A precedent embalms a principle.
Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli
The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
Benjamin Disraeli
The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
Benjamin Disraeli
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
Benjamin Disraeli
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In a progressive country change is constant; ...change... is inevitable.
Benjamin Disraeli
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Benjamin Disraeli
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sidney J. Harris
To exraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.
Napoleon Bonaparte
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Benjamin Disraeli
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Benjamin Disraeli
Death is nothing, but to live defeated is to die every day.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
Benjamin Disraeli
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli
Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.
Moses Ibn Ezra
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Pythagoras
The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance.
Benjamin Disraeli
I violated the Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does.
Warren Buffett
Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.
Dutch Proverb
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
Benjamin Disraeli
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
Napoleon Bonaparte
It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.
Dale Carnegie
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
Henry Ford
The thoughtless are rarely wordless.
Howard W. Newton
When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
Henry Ford
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
Reading musses up my mind.
Henry Ford
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don't need it; if you are sick, you shouldn't take it.
Henry Ford
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford
He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.
Henry Ford
Those who have got into the habit of consuming music for free are very hard to shift. And frankly it's an argument for increasing the scale of court cases because at the moment, people still don't think it's going to be them.
John F. Kennedy
The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
John F. Kennedy
There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility.
John F. Kennedy
If you can't bite, don't show your teeth.
Yiddish proverb
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
Henry Ford
Whether you believe you can or believe you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford
Fear to let fall a drop and you will spill a lot.
Malaysian Proverb
It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
John F. Kennedy
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
John F. Kennedy
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford
Now I understand why Henry VIII started his own church.
John F. Kennedy
We believe that an artist, in order to be true to himself and his work, must be a free man.
John F. Kennedy
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
Henry Ford
For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.
John F. Kennedy
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)
John F. Kennedy
A half-truth is a whole lie.
Yiddish proverb
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
John F. Kennedy
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy
Any colour - so long as it's black.
Henry Ford
If you can't go over, you must go under.
Yiddish proverb
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.
Yiddish proverb
So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.
John F. Kennedy
We set sail on this new sea because there is knowledge to be gained.
John F. Kennedy
If I do the right kind of a job, I don't know whether I am going to be here four years from now. -- John F. Kennedy (to Richard M. Nixon, right after the Bay of Pigs invasion, 1961).
John F. Kennedy
Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? -- John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.
John F. Kennedy
History is bunk.
Henry Ford
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz
A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.
Yiddish proverb
I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.
John F. Kennedy
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Nixon and the White House.
John F. Kennedy
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
John F. Kennedy
Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.
Henry Ford
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
John F. Kennedy
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
Yiddish proverb
When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy
I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned.
John F. Kennedy
The trouble with conservatives today is that most of their thinking is so naive. As for the liberals, their thinking is more sophisticated; but their function ought to be to provide new ideas, and they don't come up with any.
John F. Kennedy
Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
I think there is a law of equity in these disputes. When one party is clearly wrong, it will eventually give way... They had no business putting those missiles in and lying to me about it. They were in the wrong and knew it. So, when we stood firm, they had to back down. But this doesn't mean at all that they would back down when they felt they were in the right and had vital interests involved.
John F. Kennedy
If I am to die, this is the week for it. -- John F. Kennedy (to aide John McClone in response to a CIA report about rumours of an assassination plot), June 1962.
John F. Kennedy
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
John F. Kennedy
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
John F. Kennedy
History is more or less bunk.
Henry Ford
Overwhelming nuclear strength cannot stop a guerrilla war.
John F. Kennedy
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy
But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.
John F. Kennedy
When I became President, what surprised me most was that things were just as bad as I'd been saying they were.
John F. Kennedy
We don't see the end of the tunnel but I must say I don't think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter.
John F. Kennedy
This is the night to go to the theatre, like Abraham Lincoln.
John F. Kennedy
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
John F. Kennedy
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
We're winning the war but we haven't won the war yet. I think whoever takes over this job in 20 years will still have to fight this fight.
John F. Kennedy
All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came.
John F. Kennedy
Other people's troubles are bearable.
Yiddish proverb
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F. Kennedy
If you ever need a helping hand you'll find one at the end of your arm.
Yiddish proverb
A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
It's easy, they sank my boat.
John F. Kennedy
The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.
Charles M. Schulz
A child's tear rends the heavens.
Yiddish proverb
Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.
John F. Kennedy
I think this is something that people will welcome who are not computer-literate. We hope this helps them move checking out their computer further up on the to-do list.
John F. Kennedy
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.
John F. Kennedy
I have thanked him many times for telling me the way it was.
John F. Kennedy
Don't spit into the well - you might drink from it later.
Yiddish proverb
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy
Victory has a thousand fathers; defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
John F. Kennedy
Delta is looking at its airport contracts and leases.
John F. Kennedy
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
John F. Kennedy
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
John F. Kennedy
When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
John F. Kennedy
I married Joyce Sours, who has always understood my love for music and my need to perform. I think that is the most important thing in any musician's life is to make sure you marry a woman who will be understanding of the time you will put in to the music.
John F. Kennedy
Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
A guest is like rain: when he lingers on, he becomes a nuisance.
Yiddish proverb
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge
We've always been used to the French doing things differently, and in most cases it's charming. But in this case, it's a colossal mistake. It would kill off the French music industry.
John F. Kennedy
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin
If it were not for hope, the heart would break.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy - but because they are hard! Because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win!
John F. Kennedy
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.
Thomas Jefferson
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F. Kennedy
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