ABANDONMENT : He alone fails who gives up and lies down. (Ralph W. Trine: U.S. 'New Thought' writer, philosopher, and animal welfare activist, 1866-1958)

ABANDONMENT : The fathers may soar / And the children may know their names. (Toni Morrison: U.S. African-American novelist, editor, professor, social reformer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1931-2019)

ABILITIES : 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

ABILITIES : Ability is of little account without opportunity. (Napoleon: French general and statesman who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of military campaigns across Europe, 1769-1821)

ABILITIES : As you cannot do what you wish, you should wish what you can do. (Terence: Roman playwright during the Roman Republic, of Berber descent, c. 170—160 B.C.E.)

ABILITIES : Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. (John Wooden: U.S. basketball coach who at UCLA held an unprecedented record of NCAA national championships, 1910-2010)

ABILITIES : Everyone must row with the oars he has. (English proverb: )

ABILITIES : Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

ABILITIES : I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

ABILITIES : Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

ABILITIES : Potential has a shelf life. (Margaret Atwood: Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor, Born 1939)

ABILITIES : Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls. (Max Beerbohm: English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist, 1872-1956)

ABILITIES : The crowning blessing of life—to be born with a bias to some pursuit (S.C. Tallentyre: )

ABILITIES : There is no such thing as a “self-made” man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone . . . has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts. (George M. Adams: U.S. newspaper columnist and founder of the 'George Matthew Adams Newspaper Service,' 1878-1962)

ABILITY : For success, attitude is as important as ability. (Unknown Source: )

ABILITY : Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

ABILITY : The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. (Unknown Source: )

ABORTION : Abortion foes and pro-choicers can arrive at 'common ground'—adoption. (Parker J. Palmer: U.S. sociologist, author, and teacher-educator, Born 1939)

ABORTION : No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. (Margaret Sanger: U.S. birth-control activist, sex-educator, writer, and nurse who opened the first birth-control clinic in the U.S. and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 1879-1966)

ABORTION : The right of privacy . . . is broad enough to encompass a woman’s decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. (Harry Blackmun: U.S. lawyer and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1908-1999)

ABSENCE : Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire. (Unknown Source: )

ABSENCE : Absence makes the heart grow fonder. (Thomas H. Bayly: English poet, songwriter, dramatist, and writer, 1797-1839)

ABSENCE : Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)

ABSENCE : He hears but half who hears one party only. (Aeschylus: Ancient Greek tragedian who is often described as the ‘Father of Tragedy,' 525—456 B.C.E.)

ABSENCE : It is one's own fault if his enthusiasm is gone; he has failed to feed it. (Unknown Source: )

ABSENCE : The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. (Maria L. Rame: English author who wrote more than 40 novels, as well as short stories [pen name of Ouida], 1828-1909)

ABSTINENCE : Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance (or moderation) would be difficult. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

absurdity : Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

absurdity : U.S. comedian, political commentator, actor, director and television host. (Jon Stewart: U.S. comedian, political commentator, actor, director and television host, Born 1962)

ABUNDANCE : Abundance, like want, ruins many. (Russian Proverb: )

ABUNDANCE : Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. (J. Pettit-Senn: Swiss poet, 1792-1870)

ABUSE : Hurt people hurt other people. (Unknown Source: )

ABUSE : I and the public know / What all schoolchildren learn / Those to whom evil is done / Do evil in return. (W. H. Auden: English-American poet, 1907-1973)

ABUSE : People who are hurting hurt others. (Kathryn G. Patinkin: U.S. actress and writer, Born 1946)

ABUSERS : An abuser never loses sight of his prey. (Unknown Source: )

ABUSERS : Anyone entrusted with power will abuse it if not also animated with the love of truth and virtue. (Jean de la Fontaine: French fable writer and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, 1621-1695)

ACADEMIC FREEDOM : The university must be a place so devoted to intellectual inquiry that academic freedom is upheld even in the face of extreme economic, social, and political pressures. (William M. Chace: President and Emeritus Professor of English at Emory University as well as Honorary Professor of English Emeritus at Stanford University, Born 1938)

ACCEPTANCE : A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. (George Herbert: English aristocrat and financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Egyptian tombs, 1866-1923)

ACCEPTANCE : Accept what is . . . let go of what was . . . and have faith in what will be. (Sonia Ricotti: U.S. motivational speaker and best-selling author, Born 1965)

ACCEPTANCE : Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

ACCEPTANCE : Better half a loaf than no bread. (William Camden: English historian and topographer, 1551-1623)

ACCEPTANCE : Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change. (J.C.F Von Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright, 1864-1937)

ACCEPTANCE : I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. (Willa Cather: U.S. writer of frontier life and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, 1873-1947)

ACCEPTANCE : It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency. (: )

ACCEPTANCE : I’d rather be excluded for who I include, than be included for who I exclude. (Eston Williams: U.S. Methodist pastor)

ACCEPTANCE : Learn to live with what’s due. (Unknown Source: )

ACCEPTANCE : No rose without a thorn. (French Proverb: )

ACCEPTANCE : Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear. (Unknown Source: )

ACCEPTANCE : The great soul surrenders itself to fate. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

ACCEPTANCE : We cannot change anything unless we accept it. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

ACCEPTANCE : You get what you get, and you don’t throw a fit. (Julie Gassman: U.S. magazine editor and author of children's books)

ACCEPTIVITY : He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860)

ACCESSIBILITY : A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

ACCESSIBILITY : From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. (Karl Marx: German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revolutionary whose name is associated with the social theory - 'Marxism,' 1818-1883)

ACCESSIBILITY : The greatest ability is availability. (Bill Parcells: U.S. former football coach who served as a head coach in the National Football League for 19 seasons, Born 1941)

ACCOMMODATING : The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. (Bernard Baruch: U.S. financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant, 1870-1965)

ACCOMMODATION : A woman's strength is the irresistible might of weakness. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

ACCOMPLICES : The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed. (Simone d. Beauvoir: French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist,1908-1986)

ACCOMPLISHMENTS : Better to be well done than well said (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

ACCOMPLISHMENTS : Done is better than perfect. (Sheryl Sandburg: U.S. technology executive, philanthropist, and writer, Born 1969)

ACCOMPLISHMENTS : I am not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity. (George Soros: Hungarian-American survivor of the Holocaust, a highly successful billionaire business investor, and philanthropist, Born 1930)

ACCOMPLISHMENTS : If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

ACCOMPLISHMENTS : If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. (Napoleon Hill: U.S. self-help author whose books focused on principles to achieve success, 1883-1970)

ACCOMPLISHMENTS : Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it. (Danny Kaye: U.S. actor, singer, dancer, comedian, musician, and philanthropist, 1911-1987)

ACCOMPLISHMENTS : No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes. (Frederick W. Robertson: English theologian, 1816-1853)

ACCOMPLISHMENTS : The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions. (William F. Scolavino: U.S. inventor of the polaroid land camera, 1954-2019)

ACCOMPLISHMENTS : The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more. (Jonas Salk: U.S. This has happened before. The mail seems go be flaky. Please send me her address again and I’ll stop and replace the check. Sorry about that. Don On May 23, 2023, at 8:29 PM, Elaine Haglund <elaine.haglund@csulb.edu> wrote: Hi, Don, As it turns out, my friend, Dr. Pamela Roberts, has not yet received the check that you said was sent (per your message below). Do you think there was some problem with the address or whatever? Thanks for whatever you might suggest. U.S. virologist and medical researcher who developed one of the first successful polio vaccines, 1914-1995)

ACCOMPLISHMENTS : You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away. (Arlene Blum: U.S. mountaineer, writer, and environmental health scientist. Born 1945)

ACCOUNTABILITY : It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. (Moliere: French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature and whose plays have been translated into every major living language, 1622-1673)

ACCOUNTABILITY : Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. (Elizabeth B. Browning: English poet of the Victorian era, 1806-1861)

ACCURACY : The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies. (James A. Froude: English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor, 1818-1894)

ACCURACY : The perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate (Luc de Clapiers: French writer and moralist, 1715-1747)

ACCURACY : The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

Accusations : Accusing the times is but excusing ourselves. (Unknown Source: )

ACHIEVEMENT : Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments. (Jim Rohn: U.S. entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker, 1930-2009)

ACHIEVEMENT : High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. (Charles F. Kettering: U.S. inventor, engineer, businessman, the holder of 186 patents, and founder of the Kettering Foundation for research, 1876-1958)

ACHIEVEMENT : If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. (Isaac Newton: English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution, 1642-1727)

ACHIEVEMENT : Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him? (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

ACHIEVEMENT : Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

ACHIEVEMENT : Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress. (Nicholas M. Butler: U.S. philosopher, diplomat, educator, and president of Columbia University, 1862-1947)

ACHIEVEMENT : Study without action is futile; action without study is fatal. (Mary R. Beard: U.S. historian, author, and leader in both the labor and women's rights movements, 1876-1958)

ACHIEVEMENT : Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. (John F. Kennedy: U.S. politician who served as the 35th president of the United States in 1961 until his assassination, 1917-1963)

ACHIEVEMENT : What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT : A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying . . . that he is wiser today than yesterday (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT : Do not forget who held the ladder when you climbed to success. (Unknown Source: )

ACKNOWLEDGMENT : If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. (Isaac Newton: English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution, 1642-1727)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT : When you eat the fruit, don’t forget who planted the tree. (Unknown Source: )

ACKNOWLEGMENT : Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

ACQUAINTANCES : How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

ACQUIESENCE : Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. (Walter S. Landor: English writer, poet, and activist, 1775-1864)

ACTING : A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships. (Gore Vidal: U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)

ACTING : Acting is not about being famous. It's about exploring the human soul. (Annette Bening: U.S. actress wiith a career spanning over four decades, Born 1958)

ACTION : A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction. (Rita M. Brown: U.S. writer and feminist, Born 1944)

ACTION : A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

ACTION : A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. (John S. Mill: British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873)

ACTION : A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. (Henrik Ibsen: Norwegian playwright and theatre director, 1828-1906)

ACTION : Action is the antidote to despair. (Joan Baez: U.S. singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice, Born 1941)

ACTION : Action makes more fortunes than caution.- (Vauvenargues: French writer of essays and aphorisms, 1715-1747)

ACTION : Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

ACTION : Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer: German Lutheran pastor, theologian, anti-Nazi dissident, 1906-1945)

ACTION : Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve. (Tehyl Hsieh: Chinese patriot, lecturer, and writer, 1884-1972)

ACTION : Actions speak louder than words. (St. Anthony of Padua: Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order, 1195-1231)

ACTION : An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

ACTION : An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. (Friedrich Engels: German philosopher, political theorist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist who was Karl Marx’s closest friend and collaborator, 1820-1895))

ACTION : Better to be well done than well said (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

ACTION : Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness (Chinese Proverb: )

ACTION : Chance favors those in motion. (James H. Austin: U.S. neurologist and author of books on the human brain and the practice of meditation, 1928-2017)

ACTION : Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression. (Karen Horney: German psychoanalyst, 1885-1952)

ACTION : Delay not to seize the hour! (Aeschylus: Ancient Greek tragedian who is often described as the ‘Father of Tragedy,' 525—456 B.C.E.)

ACTION : Don't count the days, make the days count (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016)

ACTION : Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict. (Norman Cousins: U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990)

ACTION : Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. (Will Rogers: U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)

ACTION : Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

ACTION : For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change. (Ingrid Bengis: U.S. teacher, business woman, and writer about love, hate, and sexuality, 1944-2017)

ACTION : Get in the water and see what the swim is all about. (Unknown Source: )

ACTION : Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. (Emily P. Bissell: U.S. social worker and activist, 1861-1948)

ACTION : I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. (Edward E. Hale: U.S. historian, Unitarian minister, and author, 1822-1909)

ACTION : If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it. (Erica Jong: U.S. novelist, satirist, and poet, known for her novel, "Fear of Flying," that played a prominent role in the development of second-wave feminism, Born 1942)

ACTION : If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can. (Yiddish Proverb: )

ACTION : Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action. (Brendan F. Behan: Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964)

ACTION : Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain. (Unknown Source: )

ACTION : Make hay while the sun shines. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

ACTION : My tastes are aristocratic; my actions democratic. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

ACTION : Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act. (Francis Quaries: English metaphysical poet, 1592-1644)

ACTION : None but ourselves can free our minds. (Bob Marley: Jamaican singer, guitarist, and songwriter, 1945-1981)

ACTION : Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful. (Edward L. Curtis: U.S. Idaho Secretary of State, 1883–1884,)

ACTION : The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. (John Locke: English philosopher, 1632-1704)

ACTION : The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. (Chinese Proverb: )

ACTION : The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions. (Philo Junius: British writer (Pseudonym) who in the late 18th century wrote a series of controversial and influential letters written anonymously in the Public Advertiser who wrote 1769-1771)

ACTION : The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived. (Ann Patchett: U.S. Prize-winning author, Born, 1963)

ACTION : The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions. (Confucius: Chinese teacher, politician, and philosopher, 551–479 B.C.E.)

ACTION : The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

ACTION : The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion. (Paulo Coelho: Brazilian lyricist and novelist and a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, Born 1947)

ACTION : To the wrongs that need resistance/ To the right that needs assistance/ To the future in the distance/ Give yourselves. (Carrie C. Catt: U.S. women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women in 1920 the right to vote, 1859-1947)

ACTION : Vision without action is daydream; Action without vision is nightmare. (Japanese Proverb: )

ACTION : Visualize, "prayerize," "actionize," and your wishes will come true. (Charles L. Allen: U.S. ordained United Methodist minister whose First United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas became the largest Methodist congregation in the world at 12,000 members. 1913-2005)

ACTION : Water that does not move is always shallow. (Sami Proverb: )

ACTION : We will either find a way, or make one. (Unknown Source: )

ACTION : Well done is better than well said. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

ACTION : What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

ACTION : When thinking won't cure fear, action will. (W. C. Stone: U.S. businessman, philanthropist, and self-help book author, 1902-2002)

ACTION : When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, say something! Do something! (John Lewis: U.S. civil rights activist and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from Georgia, 1940-2020)

ACTION : Words gain credibility by deed. (Terence: Roman playwright during the Roman Republic, of Berber descent, c. 170—160 B.C.E.)

ACTION : You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot. (Titus Livius: Roman historian, 59 B.C.E.-17 A.D.)

ACTION : You should make the most of this time and place in your life, for never again will you inhabit an environment so challenging and yet so nurturing, so rigorous and yet so forgiving. (Unknown Source: )

ACTIONS : By his deeds we know a man. (African Proverb: )

ACTIONS : It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable, in retrospect. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)

ACTIVENESS : He who moves most fully into life feels most removed from death, and he who is least afraid of living is least afraid of dying. (Arthur Jersild: U.S. developmental psychologist at Columbia University, 1902-1994)

ACTIVISM : A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. (Edward R. Murrow: U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965)

ACTIVISM : Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet. (Alice M. Walker: U.S. author and awardee of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Born 1944)

ACTIVISM : All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

ACTIVISM : I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. (Mother Teresa: Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent most of her life in Calcutta, India, 1910-1997)

ACTIVISM : I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept. (Angela Davis: U.S. activist, author, and professor, Born 1944)

ACTIVISM : If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960)

ACTIVISM : Make your voice heard for those who have no voice. (Unknown Source: )

ACTIVISM : Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

ACTIVISM : People are like bicycles; they can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving. (Unknown Source: )

ACTIVISM : Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you get a lot of scum on the top. (Edward Abbey: U.S. naturalist, author, and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, 1927-1989)

ACTIVISM : Stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world! (V (formerly Eve Ensler): U.S. playwright, author, performer, feminist, and activist, Born 1953)

ACTIVISM : The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. (Carlos Santana: Mexican and American guitarist who pioneered a fusion of rock and roll and Latin American jazz, Born 1947)

ACTIVISM : The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape. (Bono: Irish lead singer for the popular Irish rock band U2, recipient of 20 Grammy Awards, and a prominent human rights activist, Born 1960)

ACTIVISM : The world is more malleable than you think and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape. (Edward de Bono: Maltese physician, psychologist, author, and inventor, Born 1933)

ACTIVISM : Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must . . . undergo the fatigue of supporting it. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

ACTIVISM : To not fight is to be complicit in the corruption. (Juana Zuniga: Honduran civil rights activist, Born 1986)

ACTIVISM : We can sing the truth and name the liars.... We must work to overturn the false narrative of tyrants. (Salman Rushdie: British Indian novelist and essayist, Born 1947)

ACTIVISM : We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. (Calvin Coolidge: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as a U.S. governor and later as the 30th President of the United States, 1872-1933)

ACTIVISM : You can get busy living, or get busy dying. (Frank Darabont: Author and film director of 'The Shawshank Redemption')

ACTIVISM : You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty. (Jessica Mitford: English author, journalist, and civil rights activist, 1917-1996)

ACTIVITIES : All the world’s a stage. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

ACTIVITY : Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. (Plato: Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 — 348/347 B.C.E.)

ACTIVITY : Water that does not move is always shallow. (Sami Proverb: )

ACTORS : An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow. (Edwin Booth: U.S. Shakespearean actor, 1883-1893)

ACUITY : I have only one eye. I have a right to be blind sometimes. (Horatio Nelson: British flag officer in the Royal Navy, 1759-1805)

ACUPUNCTURE : Every tooth in one’s head is attached to an acupuncture meridian that goes to a different organ in one’s body. (Unknown Source: )

ADAPTABILITY : Better bend than break. (Scottish Proverb: )

ADAPTABILITY : Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. (Stephen Hawking: English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Born 1942)

ADAPTATION : Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. (H. G. Wells: )

ADAPTATION : Even if you don't have the perfect idea to begin with, you can likely adapt. (Victoria Ransom: New Zealand entrepreneur who founded founded Wildfire Interactive, a social marketing software company)

ADAPTATION : The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

ADDICTION : Addiction is suicide in slow motion. (Silverio Rodriguez: Mexican-American shoe-repairman, Born 1966)

ADDICTION : For thy sake, tobacco, I Would do anything but die. (Charles Lamb: English poet and essayist, 1775-1834)

ADDICTION : In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy. (Ivan Illich: Croatian-Austrian philosopher, priest, and polemical critic of the institutions of Western culture, 1926-2002)

ADJUSTMENT : The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. (Kakuzo Okakura: Japanese scholar and art critic who in the era of Meiji Restoration reform promoted a critical appreciation of traditional forms, customs and belief, 1863-1913)

ADJUSTMENT : We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. (Unknown Source: )

ADJUSTMENTS : Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. (H. G. Wells: )

ADJUSTMENTS : He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860)

ADJUSTMENTS : Living is the art of getting used to what we didn’t expect. (Eleanor C. Wood: U.S. author and therapist, 1918-2015)

ADJUSTMENTS : There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

ADMIRATION : To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind. (Theophile Gautier: French writer and literary critic, 1811-1872)

ADMISSION : A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying . . . that he is wiser today than yesterday (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)

ADMISSION : A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)

ADOLESCENCE : Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents. (Richard Armour: U.S. poet and author of more than 65 books, 1906-1989)

ADOLESCENCE : An adolescent is both an impulsive child and a self-starting adult. (Mason Cooley: U.S. aphorist, Born 1927)

ADOLESCENCE : Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

ADOLESCENCE : In most states you can get a driver's license when you're sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old but now seems insane. (Phyllis Diller: U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012)

ADOPTION : Abortion foes and pro-choicers can arrive at 'common ground'—adoption. (Parker J. Palmer: U.S. sociologist, author, and teacher-educator, Born 1939)

ADULTHOOD : Adulthood is overrated; maturity is underrated. (Michael L. Diamond: U.S. songwriter and rapper, Born 1965)

ADULTHOOD : We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination. (David Lynch: U.S. film director, screenwriter, producer, Born 1946)

ADULTHOOD : Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are? (Laurence J. Peter: Canadian educator best known for the formulation of the 'Peter Principle- managers rise to the level of their incompetence,' 1919-1990)

ADVANCEMENT : In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety. (Abraham Maslow: U.S. psychologist best known for creating Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs, culminating in self-actualization, 1908-1970)

ADVANTAGES : He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

ADVENTURE : A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. (Lao Tzu: Chinese philosopher and writer who is the reputed founder of philosophical Taoism, 604—531 B.C.E.)

ADVENTURE : A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. (Grace Hopper: U.S. computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral, 1906-1992)

ADVENTURE : Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

ADVENTURE : Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

ADVENTURE : Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to ski in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “Wow! What a Ride!” (Unknown Source: )

ADVENTURE : Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the grade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

ADVENTURE : The greatest gift of youth is to be unaware that life is fragile. (Donald DeGrasse: U.S. mechanical engineer, 1963-2019)

ADVERSITY : Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. (William A. Ward: U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

ADVERSITY : Adversity comes with instruction in its hand. (Unknown Source: )

ADVERSITY : Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. (Horace: Roman lyric poet, 65 B.C.E.- 8 B.C.E)

ADVERSITY : Adversity introduces a man to himself. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

ADVERSITY : Adversity is the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers then. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

ADVERSITY : Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship. (Soren Kierkegaard: Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author, 1813-1855)

ADVERSITY : Broken people are beautiful. They have to put themselves back together every day. (Unknown Source: )

ADVERSITY : Experience is the extract of suffering. (Arthur Helps: English writer, 1813-1875)

ADVERSITY : Flowers grow out of dark moments. (Corita Kent: U.S. Roman Catholic religious sister, artist, and educator, 1918-1986)

ADVERSITY : Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. (John Dryden: English poet, literary critic, translator, playwright, and England's first Poet Laureate, 1631-1700)

ADVERSITY : He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

ADVERSITY : If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth. (Unknown Source: )

ADVERSITY : If you see your glass half empty, pour it into a smaller glass and stop bitching (Unknown Source: )

ADVERSITY : If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn. (Bernie S. Siegel: U.S. writer and retired pediatric surgeon, Born 1932)

ADVERSITY : In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. (John C. Collins: British literary critic, 1848-1908)

ADVERSITY : In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960)

ADVERSITY : It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. (Aristotle Onassis: Greek shipping magnate and husband of Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, 1906-1975)

ADVERSITY : Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief. (Robert Fulghum: U.S. author and Unitarian Universalist minister, Born 1937)

ADVERSITY : No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap. (Carrie Snow: U.S. stand-up comedian and television comic writer)

ADVERSITY : No gains without pains. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

ADVERSITY : Pain is the root of knowledge. (Simone Weil: French philosopher and political activist for the working class, 1909-1943)

ADVERSITY : Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

ADVERSITY : Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is greater. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

ADVERSITY : Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

ADVERSITY : Roots grow strongest when storms teach them to hold. (Unknown Source: )

ADVERSITY : The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. (Charles C. Colton: English cleric, writer, and collector, well known for his eccentricities, 1780-1832)

ADVERSITY : The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. (Unknown Source: )

ADVERSITY : The virtue of adversity is fortitude. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

ADVERSITY : There is no education like adversity. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

ADVERSITY : Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom. (Unknown Source: )

ADVERSITY : When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)

ADVERSITY : When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. (Charles A. Beard: U.S. historian, 1874-1948)

ADVERSITY : When the going gets tough, the tough get going. (Frank Leahy: U.S. football coach and professional sports executive who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach, 1908-1973)

ADVERSITY : When things go wrong, don't go with them. (Elvis Presley: U.S. singer and actor who is considered one of the most influential figures in rock and roll history, 1935-1977)

ADVERTISEMENTS : Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)

ADVERTISEMENTS : Advertising is legalized lying. (Unknown Source: )

ADVERTISING : Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. (Stephen Leacock: Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist, 1869-1944)

ADVICE : A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. (Edgar W. Howe: U.S. novelist and newspaper and magazine editor 1853-1937)

ADVICE : A wise man doesn’t need advice, and a fool won’t take it. (English proverb: )

ADVICE : Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. (Erica Jong: U.S. novelist, satirist, and poet, known for her novel, "Fear of Flying," that played a prominent role in the development of second-wave feminism, Born 1942)

ADVICE : Advice should be viewed from behind. (Swedish Proverb: )

ADVICE : Go West, young man, and grow up with the country. (Horace Greeley: U.S. author and statesman who was the founder and editor of the 'New-York Tribune,' 1811-1872)

ADVICE : If you find yourself in a hole, quit digging (Will Rogers: U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)

ADVICE : Many receive advice, only the wise profit by it. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

ADVICE : Never give advice unless asked. (German Proverb: )

ADVICE : Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. (Euripides: One of the three ancient Greek tragedians, Aeschylus and Sophocles, who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, c.485—406 B.C.E.)

ADVICE : Those things that hurt, instruct. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

ADVISEMENT : When you counsel someone, you should . . . be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

AFRICA : Africa always brings forth something new. (Greek Proverb: )

AFRICA : The African is conditioned, by the cultural and social institutions of centuries, to a freedom of which Europe has little conception, and it is not in his nature to accept serfdom forever. (Jomo Kenyatta: Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister and then as its first President, 1891-1978)

AFRICA : The darkest thing about Africa is America's ignorance of it. (George H. Kimble: British-born geographer, professor at McGill University, and secretary of the International Geographical Union, 1908-2004)

AFRICA : The Negro knows nothing of Africa [said to have been expressed with pain and distress] (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

AGE : The number of trips around the sun equals age. (Unknown Source: )

AGGRESSION : Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins. (Unknown Source: )

AGGRESSIVENESS : They tell you you're too loud, that you need to wait your turn and ask the right people for permission. Do it anyway. (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: U.S. politician and activist serving since 2019 as the U.S. representative for New York, Born 19989)

AGING : A survey asking for descriptions of older persons revealed that the most common response in the U.S. was “memory loss” (deficit), but in China the most common response was “wisdom” (strength). (Becca Levy: U.S. professor of Epidemiology at Yale University)

AGING : Age is a high price to pay for maturity. (Thomas Stoppard: Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter who in 1997 was knighted, Born 1937)

AGING : Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

AGING : Age is simply the number of years the world has had to enjoy you! (Nishan Panwar: Indian actor starring mostly in Malayalam films, as well as in several languages such as Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu, Born, 1985)

AGING : Age, with his stealing steps / Hath clawed me in his clutch (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

AGING : Aging is about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. (Eugene O'Neill: U.S. playwright and Nobel Laureate in Literature, 1888-1953)

AGING : Aging is merely the number of years the world has been enjoying you. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : Aging seems to be the only available way to live a longer life. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth; and none, or almost none, for the disenchantments of age. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)

AGING : All would live long, but none would be old. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

AGING : At the end of our life, our questions are simple. 'Did I live fully?' 'Did I love well?' (Jack Kornfield: U.S. author, teacher, and Buddhist monk who trained in Thailand, Burma, and India, Born 1945)

AGING : Being a "senior" is mostly just Googling how to do stuff. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : By the time a man is rich enough to sleep late, he's too old to enjoy it. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : Do not regret growing older; it is a privilege denied to many. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : Don’t try to “age with grace”; age with mischief, audacity, and a good story to tell. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : Don’t worry about getting old, worry about thinking old. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. (Victor Hugo: French poet, novelist, and dramatist whose works include "Les Miserables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," 1802-1885)

AGING : Getting old ain't for sissies. (Bette Davis: U.S. actress of film, television, and theater, 1908-1989)

AGING : Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : Gray hair is God's graffiti. (Bill Cosby: U.S. stand-up comedian, actor, and author, Born 1937)

AGING : Grow whole, not old! (Chris Conley: U.S. football player for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League, Born 1992)

AGING : Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed. (Anthony Powell: English novelist,1905-2000)

AGING : Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. (Andre Maurois: French author, 1885-1967)

AGING : Growing older is mandatory. Growing wiser is optional. (Doug Armey: U.S. author, entrepreneur, and adventurer)

AGING : I am so blessed to have lived long enough to have my hair turning gray, and to have my youthful laughs be forever etched into deep grooves on my face. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. (Diane Ackerman: U.S. poet, essayist, and naturalist known for her wide-ranging curiosity and poetic explorations of the natural world, Born 1948)

AGING : I love being a great-grandparent, but what I hate is being the mother of a grandparent. (Janet Anderson: English Labour Party politician who was a Member of Parliament, Born 1949)

AGING : I stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get. (George Burns: U.S. comedian, actor, singer, and writer whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film, and television, 1896-1996)

AGING : I'm at an age where my back goes out more than I do. (Phyllis Diller: U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012)

AGING : If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself. (Mickey Mantle: U.S. professional baseball player with the New York Yankees, nicknamed ‘The Commerce Comet,’ 1931-1995)

AGING : In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long. (Ivan Panin: Russian emigrant to the United States who achieved fame for discovering numeric patterns in the text of the Hebrew and Greek Bible, 1855-1942)

AGING : In youth we learn; in age we understand. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: Austrian writer and nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1830-1916)

AGING : It is better to wear out than to rust out. (Richard Cumberland: English philosopher, and Bishop, 1631-1718)

AGING : It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts. (Adlai Stevenson !!: U. S. politician and diplomat who was the United States ambassador to the United Nations, 1900-1965)

AGING : It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. (Brigitte Bardot: French former actress, singer, sex symbol, and animal rights activist, Born 1934)

AGING : It takes a long time to become young. (Pablo Picasso: Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

AGING : It's best to give while your hand is still warm. (Philip Roth: U.S. novelist and short story writer, 1933-2018)

AGING : It's better to burn out than fade out. (Kurt Cobain: U.S. singer, songwriter, artist and musician, 1967-)

AGING : It’s better to be a has-been than a never-was. (Cowboy Saying: )

AGING : Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

AGING : Love has no age. (French Proverb: )

AGING : Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom. (Laurence J. Peter: Canadian educator best known for the formulation of the 'Peter Principle- managers rise to the level of their incompetence,' 1919-1990)

AGING : Middle age is when your narrow waist and broad mind begin to change places. (Ben Klitzner: U.S. family historian, 1918-1981)

AGING : Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you. (Bennett Cerf: U.S. publisher as one of the founders of Random House, as well as a humorist, and television game-show panelist on 'What’s My Line?' 1898-1971)

AGING : Mirrors are not what they used to be. (Merete Norballe: Danish-French educational administrator, psychologist, and commentator, Born 1934)

AGING : Mutton dressed as a lamb (English proverb: )

AGING : Mutton dressed as lamb (English proverb: )

AGING : My doctor said I look like a million dollars—green and wrinkled. (Red Skelton: U.S. comedy entertainer in radio, television, film, and vaudeville, 1913-1997)

AGING : No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive. (John Cassavetes: U.S. actor and director who is considered a pioneer of independent cinema and American cinema verité, 1929-1989)

AGING : No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living. (Beynon Ray: U.S. author of self-help books, Died 1969)

AGING : None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

AGING : Not old, just bikini-impaired! (Unknown Source: )

AGING : Old age begins the day your descendants outnumber your friends. (Ogden Nash: U.S. poet well known for his light and humorous verse,1902-1971)

AGING : Old age is when we begin extolling the past at the expense of the present. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions. (Laurence J. Peter: Canadian educator best known for the formulation of the 'Peter Principle- managers rise to the level of their incompetence,' 1919-1990)

AGING : Old men have much knowledge and experience just as old trees have many roots. (Chinese Proverb: )

AGING : Our judgments about things vary according to the time left us to live—that we think is left us to live. (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

AGING : People are like bicycles; they can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : Reckless youth makes rueful age. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

AGING : Remember when we used to laugh at old people when we were young? Do you recall what was so funny? (Unknown Source: )

AGING : Senility and Enlightenment are in a race to the finish. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : Sex at eighty-four is terrific, especially the one in the winter. (Milton Berle: U.S. comedian, actor. and the first major U.S. television star, known as 'Uncle Miltie,' 1908-2002)

AGING : That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present. (Sydney Smith: English wit, writer, and Anglican cleric, 1771-1845)

AGING : The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

AGING : The age of some women is like the speedometer on a used car - you know it's set back, but you don't know how far. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : The best contraceptive for old people is nudity. (Phyllis Diller: U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012)

AGING : The best is yet to be, the last of life for which the first was made. (Robert Browning: English poet and playwright, 1812-1889)

AGING : The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860)

AGING : The excesses of our youth are drafts of our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : The first 25 years of your life, you learn; the next 25 years, you accumulate; the next 25 years, you try to get rid of everything. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860)

AGING : The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. (Madeleine L'Engle: U.S. writer of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and young adult fiction, 1918-2007)

AGING : The older I get, the better I was. (Van D. Parks: U.S. musician, songwriter, arranger, Born 1943)

AGING : The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball—the further I am rolled, the more I gain. (Susan B. Anthony: U.S. Quaker social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement, 1820-1906)

AGING : The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. (H. L. Mencken: U.S. journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English, 1880-1956)

AGING : The older you are, the more like yourself you become. (David Salvay: U.S. ophthalmologist, Born 1978)

AGING : The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it! (Doris Day: U.S. actress, singer, animal welfare activist, nominee for an Academy Award, and recipient of lifetime achievement awards as well as the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1922-2019)

AGING : The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.: U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

AGING : There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)

AGING : To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter. (Euripides: One of the three ancient Greek tragedians, Aeschylus and Sophocles, who wrote over 120 plays, a few of which have survived, c.485—406 B.C.E.)

AGING : To stay young at heart, you must have a plan / Do what you are able for as long as you can. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again. (Eleanor Roosevelt: U.S. political figure, diplomat, and activist who served as the First Lady of the U.S. during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest serving U.S. First Lady, 1884-1962)

AGING : Too early old, too late smart! (Unknown Source: )

AGING : We turn not older with years, but newer every day. (Emily Dickinson: U.S. poet, 1830-1886)

AGING : When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : Why is it that the more brain cells you lose, the more you understand, and the more you understand, the less things make sense. (Dan Ruyle: U.S. general contractor, road traveler, writer, Born 1950)

AGING : Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. (Watterson Lowe: U.S. entrepreneur and interior decorator, 1886-1980)

AGING : You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. (Woody Allen: U.S. director, writer, actor, and comedian who's been highly ranked as a great stand-up comedian, Born, 1935)

AGING : You know you're getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it. (Larry Miller: U.S. comedian, actor, podcaster, and columnist, Born 1953)

AGING : You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there (George Burns: U.S. comedian, actor, singer, and writer whose career successfully spanned vaudeville, radio, film, and television, 1896-1996)

AGING : You know you’ve grown up when a nap is no longer a punishment but a reward. (Unknown Source: )

AGING : You'll find that as you grow old, you stop bothering to hide the self you've been all along. (Charles Frazier: U.S. novelist who won the 1997 National Book Award for Fiction, Born 1950)

AGING : Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to b faithless and cannot. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

AGNOSTICISM : Do you know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist. (Studs Terkel: U.S. author and historian who received the Pulitzer Prize, 1912-2008)

AGNOSTICISM : The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain agnostic. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

AGREEABLENESS : If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

AGREEABLENESS : My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. (Benjamin Disraeli: British writer and conservative politician who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1804-1881)

AGREEMENT : Better bend than break. (Scottish Proverb: )

AGREEMENT : If you want people to think you are wise, agree with them. (Yiddish Proverb: )

AGREEMENT : There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. (E. B. White: U.S. writer and author of the highly acclaimed children's book, "Charlotte'sWeb," 1899-1985)

AGREEMENT : What the tongue has promised, the body must submit to. (Rex Stout: U.S. detective fiction writer, 1886-1975)

AGRICULTURE : The onset of agriculture and the emergence of village life was civilization, itself (Peter Turchin: Russian-American scientist specializing in the statistical analysis of cultural evolution, Born 1957)

AGRICULTURE : When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. (Daniel Webster: U.S. politician who served as U.S. Secretary of State, 1782-1852)

AIM : An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. (Jacqueline K. Onassis: First Lady of the United States during the presidency of John F. Kennedy and who was regarded as an international icon of style and culture, 1929-1994)

AIMS : The soul that has no established aim loses itself. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

ALACRITY : Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. (Dale Carnegie: U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1955)

ALCHEMY : The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. (William H. Gass: U.S. writer and professor, Born 1924)

ALCOHOL : Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure. (Randle Cotgrave: English lexicographer, who compiled and published 'A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues', a bilingual dictionary that represented a breakthrough at the time, Died 1934)

ALCOHOL : Two great European narcotics: alcohol and Christianity. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

ALERTNESS : Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

ALERTNESS : Luck is largely a matter of paying attention. (Susan M. Dodd: U.S. fiction writer, Born 1946)

ALONENESS : A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)

ALONENESS : Being alone does not have to mean being lonely. (Unknown Source: )

ALONENESS : I never said I want to be alone. I only said,I want to be left alone. There is all the difference. (Greta Garbo: Swedish-American film actress, 1905-1990)

ALONENESS : I was never less alone than when by myself. (Edward Gibbon: English historian, member of Parliament, and writer of "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," 1737-1794)

ALONENESS : In solitude, when we are least alone. (Lord Byron: English poet and politician who has been recognized as one of the greatest English poets whose work remains widely read and influential, 1788-1824)

ALONENESS : It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone. (Marilyn Monroe: U.S. actress, model, and singer, 1926-1962)

ALONENESS : Let each one of you be alone. Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

ALONENESS : Never less alone than when alone. (Samuel Rogers: English poet who during his lifetime one of widely celebrated, 1763-1855)

ALONENESS : Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. (Octavio Paz: Mexican poet, diplomat, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1914-1998)

ALONENESS : We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. (Tennessee Williams: U.S. playwright and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, 1911-1983)

ALONENESS : When you have a book, you’re never alone. (Susan Wiggs: U.S. author of historical and contemporary romance novels, Born 1958)

ALTERATIONS : Life is the garment we continually alter, but which never seems to fit. (David McCord: U.S. poet and college fundraiser, 1897-1997)

ALTERNATIVES : Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees. (Saul Bellow: Canadian-American writer who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts, 1915-2005)

ALTERNATIVES : If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. (Juan R. Jimenez: Spanish poet who received the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1881-1958)

ALTERNATIVES : Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. (Caroline Schoeder: U.S. writer of aphorisms, Born 1971)

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE : One of the hardest things to process is the slow change in the one you love. It’s called ‘The Long Goodbye’. (Unknown Source: )

AMBASSADORS : Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. (Francesco Guicciardini: Italian historian and statesman, 1483-1540)

AMBIGUITY : Great leaders use ambiguity but avoid unpredictability. (Martin Dempsey: United States Army general who served as the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Born 1952)

AMBITION : A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

AMBITION : Although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won. (Lucy M. Montgomery: Canadian author best known for a series of novels, "Anne of Green Gables," 1874-1942)

AMBITION : Ambition can creep as well as soar. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

AMBITION : Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite. (Josh Billings: U.S. columnist and humorist, 1818-1885)

AMBITION : Chase the vision, not the money. The money will end up following you. (Tony Hsieh: U.S. internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded the Internet advertising network, LinkExchange, 1973-2020)

AMBITION : How does one become a butterfly? You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar. (Trina Paulus: U.S. author and advocate of holistic health and spiritual search, Born 1931)

AMBITION : If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)

AMBITION : If you're looking too far down the road, you're not seeing what's right in front of you. (Preet Bharara: Indian-American attorney, Born 1968)

AMBITION : Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money. (Robert H. Jackson: U.S. Supreme Court justice and chief U.S. prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials, 1892-1954)

AMBITION : Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

AMBITION : Still round the corner there may wait, / a new road or a secret gate. (J. R. R. Tolkien: English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, 1892-1973)

AMBITION : Stretch your arm no farther than your sleeve will reach. (Unknown Source: )

AMBITION : The ambitious climb high . . . and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall. (Unknown Source: )

AMBITIONS : Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)

ANALYSIS : From a distance it is something, and nearby it is nothing. (Jean de la Fontaine: French fable writer and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century, 1621-1695)

ANALYSIS : The best way out of a problem is through it. (Unknown Source: )

ANCESTORS : When you drink the water, you must remember the spring. (Unknown Source: )

ANCESTORS : Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

ANGELS : Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. (Alexander Pope: English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)

ANGELS : Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons, he would lose his angels. (Dakin Williams: U.S. attorney, politician, author, and brother of the playwright, Tennessee Williams, 1919-2008)

ANGER : Always write angry letters to your enemies, but never mail them. (James Fallows: U.S. writer, journalist, and a national correspondent for many journals and magazines, Born 1949)

ANGER : An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. (Unknown Source: )

ANGER : Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world. (William Shenstone: English poet, 1714-1763)

ANGER : Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

ANGER : Anger is fear’s bodyguard. (Celeste Ng: U.S. writer and novelist who has released many short stories that have been published in a variety of literary journals, Born 1980)

ANGER : Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. (Horace: Roman lyric poet, 65 B.C.E.- 8 B.C.E)

ANGER : Anger is not inherently destructive. It can be a force for good. . . . It can fuel a righteous movement toward justice and freedom. (Austin C. Brown: U.S. speaker, writer and media producer providing inspired leadership on racial justice in America.)

ANGER : Anger is only one letter short of danger. (Unknown Source: )

ANGER : Anger is the camouflage of sadness. (Unknown Source: )

ANGER : Anger punishes itself. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

ANGER : Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words. (Joyce Brothers: U.S. psychologist, television personality, and columnist who wrote a daily newspaper advice column for 53 years, 1927-2013)

ANGER : Every criticism, judgment, diagnosis, and expression of anger is the tragic expression of an unmet need. (Marshall Rosenberg: U.S. psychologist, mediator, author, and teacher who developed the Non-violent Communication (NVC) process for helping to resolve conflict, 1934-2015)

ANGER : He who angers you conquers you. (Elizabeth Kenny: Self-trained Australian bush nurse who developed a new approach for treating victims of poliomyelitis, which was controversial at the time, 1880-1952)

ANGER : Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. (Unknown Source: )

ANGER : How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

ANGER : I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates and anger so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate or anger is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

ANGER : I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. (William Blake: English poet, painter, and printmaker, 1757-1827)

ANGER : If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid one hundred days of sorrow. (Unknown Source: )

ANGER : Never answer a letter while you are angry. (Chinese Proverb: )

ANGER : Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. (Phyllis Diller: U.S. actress and stand-up comedian, 1917-2012)

ANGER : Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him. (J.C.F Von Schiller: German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright, 1864-1937)

ANGER : The greatest remedy for anger is delay. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

ANGER : The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off. (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)

ANGER : Whatever is born in anger ends in shame. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

ANGER : When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count to one hundred. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

ANGUISH : Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary. (Henry W. Longfellow: U.S. poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Song of Hiawatha," and "Evangeline," 1807-1882)

ANIMALS : All the arguments to prove man’s superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. (Peter Singer: Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, Born 1946)

ANIMALS : Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, pass no criticisms. (George Eliot: English novelist [pen name of Mary Ann Evans], poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era, 1819-1880)

ANIMALS : I do not torture animals, and I do not support the torture of animals, such as that which goes on at rodeos: cowardly men in big hats abusing simple beasts in a fruitless search for manhood. (George Carlin: U.S. stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, and author, 1937-2008)

ANIMALS : I don’t want to eat anything that has a mother. (Fred Rogers: U.S. television personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, and minister, 1928-1993)

ANIMALS : If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. (Paul McCartney: British singer-songwriter, composer, bass player in the Beatles rock band, poet, and activist, Born 1942)

ANIMALS : Men are the devils of the earth and the animals are its tormented souls. (Arthur Schopenhauer: German philosopher whose views countered the philosophies of German post-Kantian idealism, and whose work was among the first in Western philosophy to share significant tenets of Eastern thought, 1788-1860)

ANIMALS : Men show their superiority inside; animals, outside. (Russian Proverb: )

ANIMALS : The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule -- we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us were any other species in our dominant position. (Christine Stevens: U.S. animal welfare activist and conservationist, 1918-2002)

ANIMALS : The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men. (Emile Zola: French writer, 1840-1902)

ANIMALS : The moral progress of a nation can be judged by the way it treats its animals. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

ANIMALS : Until one has loved an animal, part of her/his soul remains unawakened. (Unknown Source: )

ANIMALS : Until people have loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened. (Mahatma Gandhi: Indian leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India who employed nonviolent civil disobedience, and who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

ANIMALS (U.S.A.) : There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig—an animal easily as intelligent as a dog—that becomes the Christmas ham. (Michael Pollan: U.S. professor and writer, Born 1955)

ANNOYANCES : Do not let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out. (Annetta Powell: U.S. social media contributor)

ANNOYANCES : Things that annoy me end up fueling my ideas. (Josh James: U.S. founder and CEO of Domo, a software company, as well as previous co-founder and CEO of Omniture, a web analytics company, Born 1973)

ANSWERS : It is the questions in life that move us forward, not the answers. (Unknown Source: )

ANTAGONISTS : He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

ANTI-ABORTION : Anti-abortionists believe that "Life begins at conception and ends at birth." (Barney Frank: U.S. politician who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 32 years, Born 1940)

ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM : Anti-intellectualism fosters the false notion that democracy means that ‘my Ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’ (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

ANTI-SEMITISM : If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian so dislikes to remember as this awkward historical fact. (John Haynes: A U.S. a prominent Unitarian minister, pacifist, and co-founder of the NAACP and the ACLU, 1879-1964)

ANTICIPATION : Half the fun of nearly everything . . . is thinking about it beforehand, or afterward. (Howard R. Garis: U.S .author, best known for his books featuring the character of Uncle Wiggily Longears, 1873-1962)

ANTICIPATION : There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives? (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

ANTICIPATION : Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time. (Pericles: Greek statesman and general of Athens during its golden age, c.495—c.406 B.C.E.)

ANXIETY : A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. (Aesop Fable: )

ANXIETY : Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. (Soren Kierkegaard: Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author, 1813-1855)

ANXIETY : Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. (Neale Donald Walsch: U.S. author, author, actor, screenwriter, and speaker, Born 1943)

ANXIETY : Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems. (Epictetus: Greek Stoic philosopher who was born into slavery and then lived in Rome until his banishment, Died 135 A.D.)

ANXIETY : Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. (Dale Carnegie: U.S. developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, public speaking, and interpersonal skills, 1888-1955)

ANXIETY : That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything. (Etty Hillesum: Dutch diary writer who lived in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam and died in Auschwitz Concentration Camp, 1914-1943)

ANXIETY : There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. (Alfred Hitchcock: British film director and producer who is considered one of cinema's most influential figures, often called 'The Master of Suspense', 1899-1980)

ANXIETY : To venture is to cause anxiety, but not to venture is to lose oneself. (Soren Kierkegaard: Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author, 1813-1855)

ANXIETY : We suffer more from imagination than reality. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

ANXIETY : Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. (Swedish Proverb: )

APATHY : Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is. (Rollo May: U.S. author, psychologist, and associated with existential philosophy, 1909-1994)

APATHY : Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

APATHY : The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. (Beth Myerson: U.S. politician, model, and television actress who in 1945 became the first Jewish Miss America, 1924-2014)

APATHY : There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent. (Charles Curtis: U.S. attorney and politician who served as the 31st U.S. vice-president, 1860-1936)

APHORISMS : Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

APHORISMS : An aphorism never coincides with the truth: it is either a half-truth or one-and-a-half truths. (Karl Kraus: Austrian writer, journalist, and three-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1874-1936)

APHORISMS : Aphorisms respect the wisdom of silence by disturbing it, but briefly. (Yahia Lababidi: Egyptian-American poet, aphorist, and essayist, Born 1973)

APHORISMS : Belief in form, but disbelief in content—that's what makes an aphorism charming. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

APOLOGIES : A good apology is like anti-biotic; a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound. (Randy Pausch: U.S. professor of computer science and design, 1960-2008)

APOLOGIES : Apology is only egotism wrong side out. (Oliver W. Holmes Sr.: U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)

APOLOGIES : Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got. (Robert Brault: U.S. operatic tenor, Born 1963)

APOLOGIES : The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. (P. G. Wodehouse: English novelist and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century, 1881-1975)

APPEARANCE : A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. (Publilus Syrus: Syrian writer who as a slave was brought to Italy to be educated, best known for his moral sayings of aphorisms and maxims, 85—43 B.C.E.)

APPEARANCE : All that glisters is not gold. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

APPEARANCE : All that glitters is not gold. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

APPEARANCE : Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. (Margaret Hungerford: Irish popular novelist who wrote light romantic fiction, 1855-1897)

APPEARANCE : Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)

APPEARANCE : Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold. (Alain de Lille: French theologian, c. 1128-1202)

APPEARANCE : Don't blame the mirror if your face is faulty. (Nikolai Gogol: Russian dramatist of Ukrainian origin, 1809-1852)

APPEARANCE : Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times. (Joan Lunden: U.S. journalist, an author, and a television host, Born 1950)

APPEARANCE : Handsome is that handsome does. (Henry Fielding: English novelist, dramatist, London magistrate, and considered to be the founder of London's first police force, 1707-1754)

APPEARANCE : Happiness is the best facelift. (Diana Krall: Canadian pianist and contralto vocalist, Born 1964)

APPEARANCE : It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than they seem. (Eric Hoffer: U.S. moral and social philosopher and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

APPEARANCE : Joy is the best makeup. (Anne Lamott: U.S. novelist, a non-fiction writer, and also a progressive political activist, Born 1954)

APPEARANCE : Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination. (Marcel Proust: French novelist and essayist, 1871-1922)

APPEARANCE : Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration. (Niccolo Machiavelli: Italian diplomat, author, philosopher, and historian who has often been called the 'Father of modern political philosophy and political science,' 1469-1527)

APPEARANCE : Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses. (Dorothy Parker: U.S. writer, satirist, social critic, 1893-1967)

APPEARANCE : Mirrors are not what they used to be. (Merete Norballe: Danish-French educational administrator, psychologist, and commentator, Born 1934)

APPEARANCE : Mutton dressed as lamb (English proverb: )

APPEARANCE : People are like birds—from a distance, beautiful; from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes. (Richard J. Needham: Canadian humor columnist, 1912-1996)

APPEARANCE : Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. (Lord Chesterfield: British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time, 1694-1773)

APPEARANCE : The clothes make the man. (Latin Proverb: )

APPEARANCE : The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly. (Charles Reznikoff: U.S. poet, 1894-1976)

APPEARANCE : There's one thing about baldness—it's neat. (Don Herold: U.S humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist. 1889-1966)

APPEARANCE : They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes. (Anthony Trollope: English novelist whose works revolve around political, social, and gender issues, 1815-1882)

APPEARANCE : Things are seldom what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as cream (W. S. Gilbert: English dramatist, librettist, poet, and illustrator, 1836-1911)

APPEARANCE : You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. (Barack Obama: U.S. politician who served as the 44th President of the United States, the first African American to assume the presidency, Born 1961)

APPETITE : Hunger is the best sauce. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

APPRAISALS : There are two kinds of fools: One says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better." (William R. Inge: English author and Anglican priest who was a three-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1860-1954)

APPRECIATION : Appreciation is often tongue-tied. (Unknown Source: )

APPRECIATION : Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. (Theodore Seuss: U.S. political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring children's books [with pen name of Dr. Seuss], 1904-1991)

APPRECIATION : There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. (Mother Teresa: Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary who spent most of her life in Calcutta, India, 1910-1997)

APPRENTICESHIPS : The road from apprentice to mentor runs through the mountains. (Unknown Source: )

APPROPRIATENESS : A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. (Grace Hopper: U.S. computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral, 1906-1992)

APPROPRIATENESS : Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season. (Bette B. Lord: Chinese-born American writer and civic activist for human rights, Born 1938)

APPROPROPRIATENESS : What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. (English proverb: )

APPROPROPRIATENESS : When you can’t control what’s happening, challenge yourself to control the way you respond to what’s happening. That’s where the power is. (Don M. Ruiz: Mexican author of Toltec spiritualist and neo-shamanistic texts, Born 1952)

APPROVAL : Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.” (Gloria Steinem: U.S. feminist, journalist, and social political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s, Born 1934)

APPTITUDE : Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. (Zip Ziglar: U.S. author, salesman, and motivational speaker, 1926-2012)

ARCHITECTURE : Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time. (Frank Scully: U.S. journalist, author, and humorist, 1892-1964)

ARCHITECTURE : Architecture is inhabited sculpture. (Constantin Brancusi: Romanian sculptor, 1876-1957)

ARCHITECTURE : Architecture should speak of its time and place but yearn for timelessness. (Frank Gehry: Canadian-born U.S. architect and designer of buildings, a number of which have become world-renown, Born 1929)

ARCHITECTURE : Buildings should be good neighbors. (Paul Thiry: U.S. architect most active in Washington state, known as the 'Father of architectural modernism in the Pacific Northwest,' 1904-1993)

ARCHITECTURE : Good architecture lets nature in. (Mario Pei: Italian-born American linguist and polyglot, 1901-1978)

ARCHITECTURE : I call architecture 'petrified music'. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

ARCHITECTURE : Madame de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality. (Louisa M. Alcott: U.S. novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel "Little Women," 1832-1888)

ARCHITECTURE : No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other. (Frank L. Wright: U.S. architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, 1867-1959)

ARCHITECTURE : The materials of city planning are sky, space, trees, steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy. (Le Corbusier: Swiss-French architectural designer, painter, urban planner and writer, who was one of the pioneers of what is now regarded as modern architecture, 1887-1965)

ARCHITECTURE : The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines. (Frank L. Wright: U.S. architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, 1867-1959)

ARCHITECTURE : We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

ARCHITECTURE : What the people are within, the buildings express without. (Louis H. Sullivan: U.S. architect who has been called the 'Father of skyscrapers' and who posthumously received the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects, 1856-1924)

ARGUMENT : Silence is argument carried on by other means. (Ernesto Che Guevara: Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist, 1928-1967)

ARGUMENT : When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. (Unknown Source: )

ARGUMENTS : If you really want the last word in an argument, try saying, "I guess you're right." (Unknown Source: )

ARGUMENTS : The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war between princes. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

ARROGANCE : If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover. (Helen Van Slyke: U.S. best-selling author, newspaper and magazine editor, and business executive, 1919-1979)

ARROGANCE : Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

ART : A picture is a poem without words. (Unknown Source: )

ART : A picture is worth a thousand words. (Unknown Source: )

ART : A pictures show me at a glance what it takes dozens of pages of a book to expound. (Ivan Turgenev: Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator, and popularizer of Russian literature in the West, 1818-1883)

ART : A work of art cannot be satisfied with being a representation; it should be a presentation. (Jacques Reverdy: French artist)

ART : Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

ART : Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. (Marshall McLuhan: Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual, with a focus on media theory, as well as practical applications in the advertising and television industries, 1911-1980)

ART : Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes it visible. (Paul Klee: Swiss-born German painter whose highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism, 1879-1940)

ART : Art is a form of perceptual gymnastics. (Umberto Eco: Italian novelist, literary critic, and semiotician, 1932-2016)

ART : Art is a lie that helps us realize the truth. (Pablo Picasso: Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

ART : Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time. (Jean-Michel Basquiat: U.S. artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement, 1960-1988)

ART : Art is I; science is we. (Claude Bernard: French physiologist who was one of the first to suggest the use of blind experiments to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations, 1813-1878)

ART : Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life. (Johann (Jean) P. Richter: German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. 1763-1825)

ART : Art is made to disturb, science reassures. (George Braque: French painter, collagist, draughtsman, sculptor, printmaker, and a key figure in the development of Cubism, along with his colleague, Picasso, 1882-1963)

ART : Art is man's nature; nature is God's art. (Unknown Source: )

ART : Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity. (Modest Mussorgsty: Russian composer who strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, 1839-1981)

ART : Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery. (William Golding: British novelist, playwright, poet, and Nobel laureate, 1911-1993)

ART : Art is science made clear. (Jean Cocteau: French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist, and critic, 1889-1963)

ART : Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. (Pablo Picasso: Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

ART : Art is the opportunity to see things differently and to change one’s point of view. (Paul Klee: Swiss-born German painter whose highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism, 1879-1940)

ART : Art is the signature of civilizations. (Beverly Sills: U.S. operatic soprano singer, 1929-2007)

ART : Art should be like a holiday: something to give people the opportunity to see things differently and to change their point of view. (Patricio Aylwin: Chilean politician whose election as President marked the Chilean transition to democracy, 1918-2016)

ART : Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Pablo Picasso: Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

ART : Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. (Claude Monet: French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, 1840-1926)

ART : Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. (John Ruskin: English art critic, as well as art patron, prominent social thinker, and philanthropist. 1819-1900)

ART : I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political. (Barbara Kingsolver: U.S. novelist, essayist, and poet, Born 1955)

ART : I dream of painting and then I paint my dream. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

ART : I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at—not copy it. (Georgia O'Keefe: U.S. artist who has been recognized as the ‘Mother of American Modernism,’ 1887-1986)

ART : If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. (Edward Hopper: U.S. realist painter, 1882-1967)

ART : Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

ART : It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

ART : Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion. (Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of modern Western art, 1853-1890)

ART : Painting is the song of the brush. (Unknown Source: )

ART : Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

ART : The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. (Eugene Delacroix: French artist who was known as the leader of the French Romantic school, 1798-1963)

ART : The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract. (Patricio Aylwin: Chilean politician whose election as President marked the Chilean transition to democracy, 1918-2016)

ART : The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

ART : To engage with a work of art is to engage in empathy, to enter the experience of another, to connect with their humanity. (David L. Ulin: U.S. author and Guggenheim Fellow, Born 1961)

ART : We have art so that we shall not die of reality. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

ART : Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

ARTICULATION : Clever lines routinely travel from obscure mouths to prominent ones. (Unknown Source: )

ARTICULATION : Tis his at last who says it best. (James R. Lowell: U.S,. poet, critic, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)

Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) : Artificial Intelligence: Let’s stop aggrandizing it and begin calling it what it really is: Plagiarism Software. (Unknown Source: )

ARTISTS : A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. (Louis Nizer: U.S. lawyer, author, artist, lecturer, and advisor to those in the worlds of politics, business, and entertainment, 1902-1994)

ARTISTS : An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing. (Louise Bourgeois: French-American artist who is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, 1911-2010)

ARTISTS : An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please. (Andre Malraux: French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs, 1901-1976)

ARTISTS : An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc. (Henri Matisse: French visual artist, known as a painter, print maker, and sculptor, 1869-1954)

ARTISTS : An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way. (Charles Bukowski: German–American poet, novelist, and short story writer, 1920-1994)

ARTISTS : Artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs. (G. K. Chesterton: English writer, philosopher, literary and art critic, known as the 'Prince of Paradox,' 1874-1936)

ARTISTS : Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists. (Ezra Pound: U.S. expatriate poet, 1885-1972)

ARTISTS : Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. (Pablo Picasso: Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

ARTISTS : Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. (Unknown Source: )

ARTISTS : Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love. (Claude Monet: French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, 1840-1926)

ARTISTS : Good artists copy, but great artists steal. (Pablo Picasso: Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

ARTISTS : I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. (Orson Welles: U.S. director, actor, screenwriter, and producer who is remembered for his innovative work in radio, theatre, and film, 1915-1985)

ARTISTS : I, an artist . . . am here to live out loud. (Emile Zola: French writer, 1840-1902)

ARTISTS : Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. (Pablo Picasso: Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

ARTISTS : People who work with their hands are laborers; people who work with their hands and their brain are craftsmen; those who work with their hands, their brain, and their heart are artists. (Unknown Source: )

ARTISTS : The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

ARTISTS : The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is. (Alfred Tonnelle: French writer, 1831-1858)

ARTISTS : The artist has a special task and duty—the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity. (Lewis Mumford: U.S. historian, literary critic, sociologist, and philosopher of technology, noted for his study of cities and urban architecture, 1895-1990)

ARTISTS : The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. (Ezra Pound: U.S. expatriate poet, 1885-1972)

ARTISTS : The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds. (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

ARTISTS : To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. (Auguste Rodin: French sculptor, 1840-1917)

ARTS : Literature encourages tolerance -- bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts. (Northrop Frye: Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century, 1912-1991)

ARTS : Participating in the arts—drawing, dancing, and all that—makes the soul grow. That's why you engage in it. That's how you grow a soul. (Kurt Vonnegut: U.S. writer, 1922-2007)

ASPIRATIONS : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What’s in it for me?' (Brian Tracy: Canadian-U.S. motivational public speaker and self-development author, Born 1944)

ASPIRATIONS : A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. (Unknown Source: )

ASPIRATIONS : Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. (Robert Browning: English poet and playwright, 1812-1889)

ASPIRATIONS : All rising to great places is by a winding stair. (Francis Bacon: English philosopher and statesman who is credited with having developed the scientific method, 1561-1626)

ASPIRATIONS : Clear your mind of ‘can’t.’ (Solon: Greek statesman, lawmaker, and poet who is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy, 6th century)

ASPIRATIONS : Climb mountains so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. (Nancy McFadden: U.S. lawyer and political liaison between the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the White House, 1958-2018)

ASPIRATIONS : Destiny is not a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for. It is a thing to be achieved. (William J. Bryan: U.S. politician, attorney, and prosecutor who was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Florida, 1876-1908)

ASPIRATIONS : Don’t ever believe that where you are now is the only possibility! (Unknown Source: )

ASPIRATIONS : Don’t let the sun set without taking a bite out of the road toward your goal. (Unknown Source: )

ASPIRATIONS : Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day. (Brendan Francis: Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964)

ASPIRATIONS : Follow your bliss. Don't be afraid and doors will open where you would not have thought there were going to be doors. (Joseph Campbell: U.S. mythologist, writer, and lecturer, 1904-l987)

ASPIRATIONS : He that would have fruit must climb the tree. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

ASPIRATIONS : I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion." (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016)

ASPIRATIONS : If people aren’t laughing at your goals, your goals are too small (Azim Premji: Indian businessman and philanthropist who is known as the 'Czar of the Indian IT Industry,' Born 1945)

ASPIRATIONS : If you are comfortable in your coalition, then your coalition is too small. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

ASPIRATIONS : If you believe in something, work nights and weekends. It won't feel like work. (Kevin Rose: U.S. Internet entrepreneur, Born 1977)

ASPIRATIONS : If you want a rainbow, you have to deal with the rain. (Augustus Caesar: Founder of the Roman Principate and considered the first Roman Emperor, controlling the Roman Empire from 27 B.C.E. until his death, 63 B.C.E.—14 C.E.)

ASPIRATIONS : If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. (Dolly Parton: U.S. singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music, Born 1946)

ASPIRATIONS : If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

ASPIRATIONS : In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

ASPIRATIONS : Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. (Unknown Source: )

ASPIRATIONS : It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it. (Amelia Earhart: U.S. aviation pioneer [the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean] and author, 1897-1937)

ASPIRATIONS : Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. (Mae C. Jemison: U.S. engineer, physician, former NASA astronaut when she became the first African-American woman to travel into space on the Space Shuttle Endeavor, Born, 1956)

ASPIRATIONS : Never, ever let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do. (Note: Beethoven was deaf but was a musician. (Tom Hiddleston: English actor, Born 1981)

ASPIRATIONS : Not that I want to be a god or a hero—just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone. (Czeslaw Milosz: Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, diplomat, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1911-2004)

ASPIRATIONS : Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. (Bruce Barton: U.S. author, advertising executive, and politician, 1886-1967)

ASPIRATIONS : People may take a job for more money, but they often leave it for more recognition. (Unknown Source: )

ASPIRATIONS : Some men see things as they are and say, 'why?' I dream things that never were, and say, 'Why not?' (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

ASPIRATIONS : Strive not to be a success, but rather to be a value. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

ASPIRATIONS : The best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch. (Michael Harrington: U.S. democratic socialist, author, and political activist, 1928-1989)

ASPIRATIONS : The best way to predict your future is to create it. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

ASPIRATIONS : The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. (Joseph Campbell: U.S. mythologist, writer, and lecturer, 1904-l987)

ASPIRATIONS : The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs . . . one step at a time. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

ASPIRATIONS : The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. (Socrates: Classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought, c. 470-399 B.C.E.)

ASPIRATIONS : The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. (Vauvenargues: French writer of essays and aphorisms, 1715-1747)

ASPIRATIONS : The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

ASPIRATIONS : The road to success is always under construction. (Lily Tomlin: U.S. actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer, Born 1939)

ASPIRATIONS : There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. (Beverly Sills: U.S. operatic soprano singer, 1929-2007)

ASPIRATIONS : To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. (Robert M. Pirsig: U.S. writer and philosopher, 1928-2017)

ASPIRATIONS : Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. (Toni Morrison: U.S. African-American novelist, editor, professor, social reformer, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1931-2019)

ASPIRATIONS : We work to become, not to acquire. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

ASPIRATIONS : When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go. (Carol Burnett: U.S. award-winning actress, comedian, singer, writer. and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Born 1933)

ASPIRATIONS : When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful. (Thomas Eric: U.S. motivational speaker, author, consultant, and minister, Born 1970)

ASPIRATIONS : Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

ASPIRATIONS : Where your fear is, there is your task. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

ASPIRATIONS : Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go. (Bernard Malamud: U.S. novelist, short story writer, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, 1914-1986)

ASPIRATIONS : Work for a cause, not applause. Live life to express, not impress. Don't strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt. (Robert Tew: Australian professional rugby player)

ASPIRATIONS : You are always one decision from a completely different life. (Mel Robbins: U.S. podcast host, author, motivational speaker, and former lawyer, Born 1968)

ASPIRATIONS : Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil. (John Ruskin: English art critic, as well as art patron, prominent social thinker, and philanthropist. 1819-1900)

ASPIRATIONS : You’re not old until your dreams become regrets. (John Barrymore: U.S. actor on stage, screen, and radio (1882-1942)

ASSASSINATION : Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

ASSERTIONS : A man of words and not of deeds / Is like a garden full of weeds. (Unknown Source: )

ASSERTIVENESS : Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. (James B. Conant: U.S. chemist, a transformative President of Harvard University, and the first U.S. Ambassador to West Germany, 1893-1978)

ASSERTIVENESS : Credit is sometimes attributed to a noisy rooster who claims credit for the dawn. (Unknown Source: )

ASSERTIVENESS : If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. (Shirley Chisolm: U.S. politician, educator, and author, who became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress and then served seven terms, 1924-2005)

ASSERTIVENESS : Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be. (Elizabeth Gilbert: U.S. journalist and author, best known for her 2006 memoir, 'Eat, Pray, Love,' Born 1969)

ASSERTIVENESS : They tell you you're too loud, that you need to wait your turn and ask the right people for permission. Do it anyway. (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: U.S. politician and activist serving since 2019 as the U.S. representative for New York, Born 19989)

ASSETS : You cannot sell the cow and sup the milk. (Unknown Source: )

ASSIMILATION : The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. (William McKinley: U.S. 25th president, 1897, until his assassination six months into his second term, 1843-1901)

ASSISTANCE : Adversity comes with instruction in its hand. (Unknown Source: )

ASSISTANCE : If thine enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him drink. (Bible: Romans 12:20: )

ASSISTANCE : If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. (Booker T. Washington: U.S. educator, author, orator, advisor to presidents of the United States, and the dominant leader in the African-American community, 1856-1915)

ASSISTANCE : No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for anyone else. (Charles Dickens: English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)

ASSISTANCE : One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing, is what we do for others. (Lewis Carroll: English writer, mathematician, and logician whose most famous writings are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," 1832-1898)

ASSISTANCE : Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. (Emily Kimbrough: U.S. author and broadcaster, 1899-1989)

ASSISTANCE : The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. (Robert Ingersoll: U.S. attorney, writer and orator who campaigned in defense of agnosticism and who was nicknamed 'The Great Agnostic,' 1833-1899)

ASSISTANCE : The measure of power is not based on how many you beat down but how many you lift up. (Unknown Source: )

ASSISTANCE : Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960)

ASSISTANCE : We are here to add what we can to life, not to what we can get from life. (William Osler: Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1849-1887)

ASSISTANCE : Wear your heart on your sleeve. (William Shakespeare: English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

ASSISTANCE : When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own. (Unknown Source: )

ASSUMPTIONS : Assumptions are the termites of relationships. (Henry Winkler: U.S. actor, director, comedian, producer, and author, Born 1945)

ASSUMPTIONS : What we assume—what we have never clearly thought out—controls us. (Morton Kelsey: U.S. priest, counselor, and religious writer, 1917-2001)

ASSUMPTIONS : Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

ASTRONOMY : How do you look for life that may not be life as we know it? (Ken Farley: U.S. geochemist and chair of the Division of Geological and Planetary sciences at the California Institute of Technology, Born 1964)

ASTRONOMY : The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. (GALILEI GALILEO: Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer who has been called the ‘father of observational astronomy,’ and the ‘father of modern physics,’ 1564-1642)

ATHEISM : By night an atheist half-believes in God. (Edward Young: English poet, critic, and theologian, 1683-1765)

ATHEISM : Do you know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist. (Studs Terkel: U.S. author and historian who received the Pulitzer Prize, 1912-2008)

ATHEISM : I am an atheist, thank God! (Unknown Source: )

ATHEISM : I wanted to become an atheist but I gave it up. They have no holidays. (Henry Youngman: English-American comedian and musician, 1906-1988)

ATHEISTS : There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes. (Erica Jong: U.S. novelist, satirist, and poet, known for her novel, "Fear of Flying," that played a prominent role in the development of second-wave feminism, Born 1942)

ATROCITY : Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

ATTACHMENT : The root of suffering is attachment. (Gautama Buddha: Asian ascetic and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism were founded and who lived sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C.E.)

ATTACKS : He who slings mud generally loses ground. (Adlai Stevenson II: U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900-1965)

ATTAINMENT : Is there anything in life so disenchanting as attainment? (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)

ATTEMPTS : You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. (Beverly Sills: U.S. operatic soprano singer, 1929-2007)

ATTENTION : The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. (Andrew Carnegie: U.S. industrialist and philanthropist, 1835-1919)

ATTENTIVENESS : Modern humanity is sick with FOMO—Fear Of Missing Out— and though we have more choice than ever before, we have lost the ability to really pay attention to whatever we choose. (Juval Harari: )

ATTITUDE : A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition. (William A. Ward: U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

ATTITUDE : A man is as miserable as he thinks he is. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

ATTITUDE : Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. (Wayne W. Dyer: U.S. author and motivational speaker, 1940-2015)

ATTITUDE : Change your thoughts and you change your world. (Norman V. Peale: U.S. minister and author known for his work in popularizing the concept of positive thinking, 1898-1993)

ATTITUDE : For success, attitude is as important as ability. (Unknown Source: )

ATTITUDE : If you see your glass half empty, pour it into a smaller glass and stop bitching (Unknown Source: )

ATTITUDE : It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is. (William v. Humboldt: Prussian philosopher and diplomat, 1767-1835)

ATTITUDE : It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy. (Unknown Source: )

ATTITUDE : It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. (Lou Holtz: former U.S. football player, coach, and analyst, Born 1937)

ATTITUDE : Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. (Maria Robinson: U.S. politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Born 1987)

ATTITUDE : Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. (Buddhist Proverb: )

ATTITUDE : Reason is also choice. (John Milton: English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant who is best known for his epic poem, 'Paradise Lost,' 1608-1674)

ATTITUDE : Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. (Caroline Schoeder: U.S. writer of aphorisms, Born 1971)

ATTITUDE : Taste cannot be controlled by law. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

ATTITUDE : The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. (Martha Washington: U.S. wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States, 1731-1802)

ATTITUDE : Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right. (Henry Ford: U.S. industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and the sponsoring developer of the assembly line technique of mass production, 1863-1947)

ATTITUDE : Unhappiness indicates wrong thinking, just as ill health indicates a bad regimen. (Paul Bourget: French novelist, critic, and a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1852-1935))

ATTITUDE : We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them (Phyllis Bottome: British novelist and short story writer., 1884-1963)

ATTITUDE : We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them. (Unknown Source: )

ATTITUDE : Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. (Zip Ziglar: U.S. author, salesman, and motivational speaker, 1926-2012)

ATTITUDE : Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.” (Lou Holtz: former U.S. football player, coach, and analyst, Born 1937)

ATTITUDES : A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. (William James: U.S. philosopher and psychologist whose influence led to his being known as the ‘Father of American Psychology,’ 1842-1910)

ATTITUDES : Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change. (Harriet Lerner: U.S. clinical psychologist and contributor to feminist theory and therapy, Born 1944)

ATTITUDES : Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances. (Viktor Frankl: Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, as well as a Holocaust survivor, 1905-1997)

ATTITUDES : If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. (Amy Tan: U.S. writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience, Born 1952)

ATTITUDES : If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. (Maya Angelou: U.S. author, poet, dancer, actress, and singer, 1928-2014)

ATTITUDES : It is of no consequence what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. (Gore Vidal: U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)

ATTITUDES : It is our choices and attitudes that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities. (J. K. Rowling: British novelist who is best known for writing the 'Harry Potter' fantasy series., Born 1965)

ATTITUDES : Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you. (Walt Whitman: U.S. essayist, journalist, and poet, known as the 'Father of Free Verse,' 1819-1992)

ATTITUDES : Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us. (John C. Mitchell: , U.S. professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University)

ATTITUDES : The last, if not the greatest, of the human freedoms: to choose their own attitude in any given circumstance. (Bruno Bettelheim: Austrian-born American psychologist, scholar, public intellectual, and writer, 1903-1990)

ATTITUDES : The only disability in life is a bad attitude. (Scott Hamilton: retired U.S. figure skater and Olympic gold medalist, Born 1958)

ATTITUDES : The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; but the realist adjusts the sails. (William A. Ward: U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

ATTITUDES : The world does not have to change.... The only thing that has to change is our attitude. (Gerald G. Jampolsky: U.S. and international authority in the fields of psychiatry, health, business, and education. Born 1925)

ATTITUDES : This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. (Horace Walpole: English novelist and art historian,1717-1797)

ATTITUDES : Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

ATTRACTABILITY : It is easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar. (English proverb: )

ATTRACTABILITY : Like bees to honey (Unknown Source: )

ATTRACTION : Let us leave pretty women to men without imagination. (Marcel Proust: French novelist and essayist, 1871-1922)

ATTRACTION : Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends. (Unknown Source: )

ATTRIBUTES : Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. (Unknown Source: )

AUCTIONS : It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

AUDACITY : Fortune favors the audacious. (Desiderius Erasmus: Dutch philosopher and scholar, considered to have been one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance. (1466-1536))

AUDIENCES : A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content. (Alfred N. Whitehead: English mathematician and philosopher whose studies have found application to a wide variety of disciplines, 1861-1947)

AUDIENCES : The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. (Alvin Barkley: U.S. lawyer and politician who served as the 35th Vice-President of the United States, 1877-1956)

AUTHENTICITY : A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. (Percy B. Green: Writer and author of "A History of Nursery Rhymes," 1897-1977)

AUTHENTICITY : Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. (Allen Ginsberg: U.S. poet and writer, 1926-1997)

AUTHENTICITY : Give a man a mask and he will show his true face. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

AUTHENTICITY : Half the truth is often a great lie. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

AUTHENTICITY : He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. (Charles Peguy: French poet, essayist, and editor, 1873-1914)

AUTHENTICITY : I had rather be hated for what I am than be loved for what I am not. (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

AUTHENTICITY : It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. (Shirley MacLaine: U.S. film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist, and author, Born 1934)

AUTHENTICITY : Just be yourself, because an original is worth more than a copy. (Suzy Kassem: U.S. writer, poet, philosopher, and multi-faceted artist of Egyptian origin, Born 1975)

AUTHENTICITY : The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. (Anne M. Lindbergh: U.S. writer and aviator, 1906-2001)

AUTHENTICITY : True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are. (Brene Brown: U.S. research professor, lecturer, author, and podcast host, Born 1965)

AUTHENTICITY : We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want . . . to live our lives with authenticity. (Barbara De Angeles: U.S. TV personality, personal growth adviser, lecturer, and author, Born 1951)

AUTHORITARIANISM : Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. (Robert H. Jackson: U.S. Supreme Court justice and chief U.S. prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials, 1892-1954)

AUTHORITARIANISM : Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. (Thomas H. Huxley: English biologist and anthropologist specializing in comparative anatomy and was an advocate of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, 1825-1895)

AUTHORITARIANISM : Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. (Theodor W. Adorno: German philosopher, sociologist, and composer, 1903-1969)

AUTHORITARIANISM : Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. (William Pitt Sr.: British statesman of the Whig group who served as Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1708-1788)

AUTHORITARIANISM : No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. Edward R. Murrow, journalist (Edward R. Murrow: U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965)

AUTHORITARIANISM : The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority. (Paul Tillich: German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran Protestant theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century, 1886-1965)

AUTHORITARIANISM : There is nothing more dangerous than a government of the many controlled by the few. (Lawrence Lessig: U.S. professor and political activist, Born 1961)

AUTHORITARIANISM : When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. (Lin Yutang: Chinese writer, translator, linguist, philosopher, and inventor, 1895-1976)

AUTHORITARIANISM : Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. (John Morley: British Liberal statesman, writer, and newspaper editor, 1838-1923)

AUTHORITY : A quotation in a speech, article, or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. (Brendan F. Behan: Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish, 1923-1964)

AUTHORITY : All authority belongs to the people. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

AUTHORITY : He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind. (Unknown Source: )

AUTHORITY : Speak softly and carry a big stick. (Theodore Roosevelt: U.S. statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th U.S. president, 1858-1919)

AUTHORITY : Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. (African Proverb: )

AUTHORITY : The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong. (Georges Bidault: French politician, 1899-1983)

AUTHORITY : There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. (Booker T. Washington: U.S. educator, author, orator, advisor to presidents of the United States, and the dominant leader in the African-American community, 1856-1915)

AUTHORITY : There can be no freedom without a flow between leadership and followership. (Unknown Source: )

AUTHORITY : Think for yourself and question authority. (Timothy Leary: U.S. psychologist and writer, 1920-1996)

AUTHORITY : This is what power really is: the privilege of ignoring anything you might find distasteful. (Oksana Zabuzhko: Ukrainian novelist, poet, and essayist, Born 1960)

AUTHORITY : Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

AUTHORITY : Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

AUTHORITY : When the cat's away the mice will play. (English proverb: )

AUTHORS : A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. (Pamela L. Travers: Australian-British writer who is best known for the Mary Poppins series of books, 1899-1996)

AUTHORS : A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others. (William Faulkner: U.S. novelist and Nobel Laureate, 1897-1962)

AUTHORS : Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s. (Stephen King: U.S. author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, horror, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels, Born, 1947)

AUTHORS : He who has provoked the lash of wit cannot complain that he smarts from it. (James Boswell: Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, famous for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795))

AUTHORS : Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones. (Elizabeth B. Browning: English poet of the Victorian era, 1806-1861)

AUTHORS : No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. (Russsell Lynes: U.S. art historian, photographer, author, and managing editor of Harper's Magazine, 1910-1981)

AUTHORS : What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. (Logan P. Smith: U.S.- born British essayist and critic who was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, 1865-1946)

AUTHORS : When I am dead, I hope it may be said: “His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.” (Hilaire Belloc: Anglo-French writer and historian, political activist, and one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century, 1870-1993)

AUTISM : It seems that for success, in science or art, a dash of autism is essential. For success, the necessary ingredients may be an ability to turn away from the everyday world so as to create in new untrodden ways. (Hans Asperger: , Austrian physician, noted for his early studies on atypical neurology, specifically in children, 1906-1980) Austrian physician, noted for his early studies on atypical neurology, specifically in children, 1906-1980)

AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Autobiography is the poor man’s history. (Raymond Carver: American short story writer and poet, 1938-1988)

AUTUMN : Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. (Albert Camus: French philosopher, author, and journalist, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second youngest recipient in history, 1913-1960)

AUTUMN : The beauty of autumn is a reminder that change can be beautiful. (Unknown Source: )

AVAILABILITY : The greatest ability is availability. (Bill Parcells: U.S. former football coach who served as a head coach in the National Football League for 19 seasons, Born 1941)

AVAILABILLITY : A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. (Miguel de Cervantes: Spanish writer whose novel, "Don Quixote," has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects-making it, after the "Bible," the most translated book in the world, 1547-1616)

AVOIDANCE : If you’re avoiding discomfort, you’re avoiding growth. (Unknown Source: )

AVOIDANCE : One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to void it. (French Proverb: )

AVOIDANCE : The activity you’re most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity. (Robin Sharma: Canadian attorney and writer of publication on stress management and spirituality, Born 1964)

AVOIDANCE : There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. (Paul Bourget: French novelist, critic, and a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1852-1935))

AWAKENING : Death—the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening. (Walter Scott: Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian, 1771-1832)

AWARENESS : Awareness is the product of thinking; understanding, the product of re-thinking. (Unknown Source: )

AWARENESS : Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

AWARENESS : Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices—just recognize them. (Edward R. Murrow: U.S. war correspondent during World War II and broadcast journalist, 1908-1965)

AWARENESS : Everything has changed, except our way of thinking. (Albert Einstein: German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955)

AWARENESS : If not us, who? If not now, when? (Hillel (the Elder): Jewish religious leader, sage, and scholar, 110 B.C.E.-10 A.D.)

AWARENESS : Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

AWARENESS : Lord, how the day passes! It’s like a life—so quickly when we don’t watch it and so slowly if we do. (John Steinbeck: U.S. author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1968)

AWARENESS : Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want. (Jonathan Swift: Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric, 1667-1745)

AWARENESS : Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us! (Robert Burns: Scottish poet and lyricist who is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide, 1759-1796)

AWARENESS : Only in the darkness can you see the stars. (Martin L. King Jr.: U.S. Baptist minister and activist who was a prominent leader in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, using the tactics of non-violence and civil disobedience, 1929-1968)

AWARENESS : Only that day dawns to which we are awake. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

AWARENESS : Our moment on stage is so brief, but if you can be aware of the ingredients that make up the stage upon which you live your life, you can enjoy the dance of life ever so much more. (Ruth Kirk: U.S. naturalist, photographer, and author, Born 1944)

AWARENESS : People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies, and author of the ground-breaking book, "Death and Dying," 1926-2004)

AWARENESS : Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. (Ellen DeGeneres: U.S. comedian, TV host, actor, and writer, Born 1958)

AWARENESS : Suffering is the origin of consciousness. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

AWARENESS : The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance of the need to change. (Unknown Source: )

AWARENESS : The ring always believes that the finger lives for it. (Malcolm de Chazal: Mauritian writer and painter, 1902-1981)

AWARENESS : The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

AWARENESS : There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in. (Carl Rogers: U.S. psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach in psychology, 1902-1987)

AWARENESS : We have met the enemy and he is us. (Walt Kelly: U.S. animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip, 'Pogo,' 1913-1973)

AWARENESS : When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. (Helen A. Keller: U.S. author, political activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree, 1880-1968)

AWARENESS : Why is it that the more brain cells you lose, the more you understand, and the more you understand, the less things make sense. (Dan Ruyle: U.S. general contractor, road traveler, writer, Born 1950)

AWARENESS : Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down. (Olive Schreiner: South African author, anti-war campaigner, and intellectual, 1856-1920)

AWARENESS : You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. (Unknown Source: )