EAGERNESS : Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. (Soren, Kierkegaard: Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher, 1813-1855)

EARTH : Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. (Douglas W. Jerrold: English dramatist and writer, 1803-1857)

EARTH : For all our conceits about being the center of the universe, we live in a routine planet of a humdrum star stuck away in an obscure corner . . . on an unexceptional galaxy which is one of more than 100 billion galaxies. . . . That is the fundamental fact of the universe we inhabit. (Carl Sagan: U.S. astronomer and science communicator in astronomy and other natural sciences, 1934-1996)

EARTH : How inappropriate it is to call this planet 'Earth' when it is quite clearly ocean. (Arthur C. Clarke: U.S. science fiction writer and undersea explorer, 1917-2008)

EARTH : If a man is made of earth, water, air, and fire, so is this body of earth. (Leonardo da Vinci: Italian Renaissance polymath whose interests were inventing, painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mathematics, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, history, and cartography, 1452-1519)

EARTH : The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. (Daniel J. Boorstin: U.S. historian, professor, attorney, and writer, 1914-2004)

EARTH : The land and the sea are the chief; man is their servant. (Unknown Source: )

EARTH : The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it. (Buckminster Fuller: U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983)

EARTH : We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it, chopped down its forests, leveled its hills, muddied its waters, and dirtied its air. If we were tenants here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago. (Rose Bird: U.S. jurist and Chief Justice of California Supreme Court making her both the first female Justice and the first female Chief Justice, 1936-1999)

EATING : This world is divided roughly into three kinds of nations: those that spend lots of money to keep their weight down; those whose people eat to live; and those whose people don't know where their next meal is coming from. (David S. Landes: U.S. professor of economics and of history at Harvard University, 1924-2013)

EATING : Thou should eat to live; not live to eat. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

EATING (U.S.A.) : More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. (John K. Galbraith: U.S. Canadian-born economist, public official, diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism, 1908-2006)

ECCENTRICITY : The rich can be "eccentric," the poor have to be considered "nuts." (Unknown Source: )

ECCENTRICITY : There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. (Lucius A. Seneca (the Younger): Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist, c. 4 B.C.E.–A.D. 65)

ECOLOGY : Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live. (Holmes Rolston III: U.S. professor of environmental ethics whose contributions include the relationship between science and religion, Born 1932)

ECOLOGY : God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. (John Muir: Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness, 1838-1914)

ECOLOGY : Imagine that if trees gave Wi-Fi, we would all be planting trees like crazy and would end deforestation. It's a pity that they only produce the oxygen that we breathe to live. (Unknown Source: )

ECOLOGY : To damage the earth is to damage your children. (Wendell Berry: U.S. farmer, environmental activist, and cultural critic, Born 1934)

ECOLOGY : Waiting for consensus about how fast the earth is warming before acting is like being on a plane falling from the sky and bickering about the rate of descent. (K. C. Golden: U.S. climate advocate, policy architect, and recipient of the Heinz Award for Public Policy)

ECOLOGY : We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land. (Wendell Berry: U.S. farmer, environmental activist, and cultural critic, Born 1934)

ECONOMICS : Children have become so expensive that only the poor can afford them. (Unknown Source: )

ECONOMICS : Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons? (Arundhati Roy: Indian author and political activist in human rights and environmental causes, Born 1961)

ECONOMICS : I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management. (E. B. White: U.S. writer and author of the highly acclaimed children's book, "Charlotte'sWeb," 1899-1985)

ECONOMICS : If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living. (Unknown Source: )

ECONOMICS : Ill fares the land, to hastening ills of prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. (Oliver Goldsmith: Anglo-Irish writer and physician, 1730-1774)

ECONOMICS : Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. (Milton Friedman: U.S. economist who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, 1912-2006)

ECONOMICS : It’s the economy, stupid. (James Carville: U.S. political consultant and author, Born 1944)

ECONOMICS : Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. (Edmund Burke: Anglo-Irish statesman and political philosopher who served in the British parliament and in the House of Commons, 1729-1797)

ECONOMICS : People aren’t going hungry because we cannot feed the poor. People are going hungry because we cannot satisfy the rich. (Mohamad Safa: Lebanese Diplomat and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Born 1991)

ECONOMICS : Political equality is meaningless in the face of economic inequality. (Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

ECONOMICS : The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of everything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. (Thomas Sowell: U.S. economist, social theorist, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Born 1930)

ECONOMICS : The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world. (Ludwig v. Mises: Austrian School economist, historian, logician, and sociologist.)

ECONOMICS : The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. (John K. Galbraith: U.S. Canadian-born economist, public official, diplomat, and a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism, 1908-2006)

ECONOMICS : The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food. (Unknown Source: )

ECONOMICS : The sun is pure communism everywhere except in cities, where it's private property. (Malcolm de Chazal: Mauritian writer and painter, 1902-1981)

ECONOMICS : War is only good for the countries who sell the weapons. (Unknown Source: )

ECONOMICS : Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars on poverty are fought to map change. (Muhammad Ali: U.S. professional boxer, activist, entertainer, poet, and philanthropist, 1942-2016)

ECONOMICS : We have socialism for the rich and rugged free-market capitalism for the poor. (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)

ECONOMICS : Wealth doesn’t “trickle down.” It gushes up. (Robert Reich: U.S. professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator, Born 1946)

ECONOMICS : When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge. (Robert T. Kiyosaki: Japanese-U.S. entrepreneur and author, Born 1947)

ECONOMICS : Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority. (William A. Ward: U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

ECONOMY : A love of fashion makes the economy go round (Liz Tilberis: British fashion magazine editor of Manx and English ancestry, 1947-1999)

ECONOMY : If I want to aid the poor, that is, to help the poor not to be poor, I ought not make them poor (through exploitation). (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

ECONOMY : One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged. (Richard Hofstadter: U.S. historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century who was the DeWitt Clinton Professor a U.S. History at Columbia University (1916-1970))

ECONOMY : The history of the world . . . is who gets eaten and who get to eat. (Stephen Sondheim: U.S. composer and lyricist, regarded as one of the most important figures in 20th century musical theater, 1930-2021)

ECONOMY (U.S.A.) : For many Americans, wages have stagnated, but immigrants are not to blame. (Matthew Desmond: U.S. author, sociologist, and professor at Princeton University who has received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Born 1979/80)

ECONOMY (U.S.A.) : It is much easier in the United States to be decently dressed than it is to be decently house, fed, or doctored. (Michael Harrington: U.S. democratic socialist, author, and political activist, 1928-1989)

ECONOMY (U.S.A.) : Socialism for the rich — and free enterprise for the poor. (Unknown Source: )

ECONOMY (U.S.A.) : The American government gives the most help to those who need it the least—through tax breaks. (Matthew Desmond: U.S. author, sociologist, and professor at Princeton University who has received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, Born 1979/80)

EDITING : A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations. (Hector H. Monro: British writer and social critic, 1870-1916)

EDITORS : The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable or compressible at the whim of the editor. (Robert Burchfield: New Zealand lexicographer, 1923-2004)

EDUCATION : A school cannot make the sun rise, but it can let the light in. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : A child who reads will be an adult who thinks. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : An education that teaches us to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is for us to learn to do something about making the world a better place. (Johnnetta B. Cole: U.S. anthropologist and educator, Born 1936)

EDUCATION : An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

EDUCATION : Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never was and never will be. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : Better build schoolrooms for ‘the boy’ / Than cells and gallows for ‘the man.’ (Eliza Cook: English author and poet associated with political freedom for women, 1818-1889)

EDUCATION : Better untaught than ill taught. (English proverb: )

EDUCATION : Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

EDUCATION : Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. (Aristotle: Greek philosopher and scientist who, along with Plato, is considered the ‘Father of Western Philosophy,’ 384-322 B.C.E.)

EDUCATION : Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. (Will Durant: U.S. writer, historian, and philosopher, 1885-1981)

EDUCATION : Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats: Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature, 1865-1939)

EDUCATION : Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man. (Swamiji Vivekananda: Indian Hindu monk, 1863-1902)

EDUCATION : Education is the most powerful weapon that we can use to change the world. (Nelson Mandela: South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa and received the Nobel Prize for promoting peace, 1918-2013)

EDUCATION : Education is the path from cocky arrogance to miserable uncertainty. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

EDUCATION : Education is the process of turning cocksure ignorance into thoughtful uncertainty.' (K. G. Johnson: U.S. Mechanical contractor)

EDUCATION : Education is the vaccination for prevention of poverty. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : Education is what survives when what you have learned has been forgotten. (B. F. Skinner: U.S. psychologist, professor, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher, 1904-1990)

EDUCATION : Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

EDUCATION : Education's purpose is to turn "mirrors" — reflecting moods and emotions of the times — into "windows" — bringing light to bear. (Sydney J. Harris: U.S. journalist and columnist, 1917-1986)

EDUCATION : For every generation, democracy must be born anew, with education as its midwife. (John Dewey: U.S. philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer, 1859-1952)

EDUCATION : For me, the fact that there's a rise of flat-Earthers is evidence of two things. One, we live in a country that protects free speech, and, two, we live in a country with a failed educational system (Neil d. Tyson: U.S. astrophysicist and author, Born 1958)

EDUCATION : Half the world does not know how the other half lives. (Francois Rabelais: French Renaissance writer, physician, Renaissance humanist, monk, and Greek scholar, 1494-1553)

EDUCATION : History is a vast early warning system. (Norman Cousins: U.S. political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate, 1915-1990)

EDUCATION : I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

EDUCATION : If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

EDUCATION : If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . it expects what never was and never will be. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

EDUCATION : If people empty their purse into their heads, no one can take it away from them, for an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

EDUCATION : If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world. (Sarah Boseley: U.S. writer, editor of 'The Guardian,' and recipient of several awards for her worldwide health-related projects)

EDUCATION : If we don’t feed the teachers, they’ll eat the children. (Lisa Delpit: U.S. educator, award- winning author, and professor)

EDUCATION : If you educate a man you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you educate a family. (Rudy Manikan: U.S. naturalist talk show host, 1945-2023)

EDUCATION : If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok: U.S. lawyer, educator, and former president of Harvard University, Born 1930)

EDUCATION : If your vision is for one year, plant rice; If your vision is for 10 years, plant trees. But if your vision is for 100 years, educate youth. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : Indian engineer, innovator, and education reformist, Born 1965 (Sonam Wangchuk: Indian engineer, innovator, and education reformist, Born 1965)

EDUCATION : It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. (Leo Buscaglia: U.S professor and a motivational speaker, 1924-1998)

EDUCATION : It takes only a little light to put out darkness (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons. (John Ruskin: English art critic, as well as art patron, prominent social thinker, and philanthropist. 1819-1900)

EDUCATION : Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. (Anne Frank: German-born diarist and Jewish victim of the Holocaust, 1929-1945)

EDUCATION : Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. (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)

EDUCATION : Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. (John W. Gardner: U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1912-2002)

EDUCATION : 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.)

EDUCATION : Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, withouit which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world. (Malaya Yousafzai: Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Born 1997)

EDUCATION : Prejudice is most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among rocks. (Charlotte Bronte: English novelist and poet, 1816-1855)

EDUCATION : Public instruction should be the first object of government. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

EDUCATION : Read one thousand books AND walk one thousand miles. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : School vouchers are sold as a way for parents to handpick schools that reinforce values taught at home, but a democracy requires critical thinkers who are exposed to new ideas. (Richard D. Kahlenberg: U.S. scholar and advocate of the economic integration movement in K-12 schooling, Born 1963)

EDUCATION : So little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated. (Edith Hamilton: U.S. educator and internationally known author of her best-selling books on ancient Greek and Roman civilizations, 1867-1963)

EDUCATION : The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. (Robert Hutchins: U.S. educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School, and president and chancellor of the University of Chicago, 1899-1977)

EDUCATION : The goals of education is for every classroom become an 'intensive-care' unit. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

EDUCATION : The highest result of education is tolerance. (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)

EDUCATION : The mind is not a vessel that needs filling but wood that needs igniting. (Plutarch: Greek historian, biographer. moralist, and essayist, best known for his in-depth biographies of famous Romans and Greeks detailed in his writings of "Parallel Lives," c. 45—120 C.E.)

EDUCATION : The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn . . . and change. (Carl Rogers: U.S. psychologist and among the founders of the humanistic approach in psychology, 1902-1987)

EDUCATION : The past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

EDUCATION : The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open mind. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

EDUCATION : The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests, and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

EDUCATION : The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian, and Caribbean history of the United States. (Carlos Fuentes: Mexican novelist, essayist, and diplomat, 1928-2012)

EDUCATION : The value of education is not as much the amount of knowledge as it is the ability to question knowledge—'better a well molded than a filled mind.' (: )

EDUCATION : The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. (Sydney J. Harris: U.S. journalist and columnist, 1917-1986)

EDUCATION : There is no shame in accepting the mistakes of one's country; the shame is in concealing the mistakes and letting the next generation quietly inherit horrors they had no part in. (Tony Angastiniotis: Greek Cypriot human rights activist and documentary-maker, Born 1966)

EDUCATION : Those who prevent history being taught fully intend to repeat it. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave. (Frederick Douglass: African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, and statesman, 1818-1895)

EDUCATION : Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. (Roger Lewin: British prize-winning science writer and author of 20 books, Born 1944)

EDUCATION : Unlearned in history, people allow themselves to be governed by the Unknown Past. (: )

EDUCATION : We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

EDUCATION : What happens in the classroom among people is more important than any assignment, curriculum, procedure, or content. (Unknown Source: )

EDUCATION : What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. (Joseph Addison: English essayist, poet, playwright, politician, and co-founder of 'The Spectator' magazine, 1672-1719)

EDUCATION : When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train, and educate people. (Chinese Proverb: )

EDUCATION : When you lift up women, you lift up humanity. (Melinda Gates: U.S. philanthropist who with her husband, Bill Gates, co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — that at the time in 2015 was the world's largest private charitable organization, Born 1964)

EFFICIENCY : There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005)

EFFORT : 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,)

EGALITARIANISM : We all do better when we all do better. (Paul Wellstone: U.S. academic and politician, 1944-2002)

EGO : Be melting snow / Wash yourself of yourself. (Rumi: 13th-century Persian 13th century poet, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic, 1207-1273)

EGO : There is as much difference between us and ourselves as there is between us and others. (Michel de Montaigne: French philosopher and essayist, whose work contains some of the most influential essays ever written, 1533-1592)

EGOTISM : The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. (Lucille S. Harper: U.S. writer, 1912-1995)

EGOTISM : When two egoists meet, it becomes a situation of an I for an I. (Unknown Source: )

ELDERS : The family with an old person in it possesses a jewel. (Chinese Proverb: )

ELECTIONS : Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. (Franklin P. Adams: U.S. writer, famed for his wit and best known for his columns and as a radio panelist, 1881-1960)

ELECTIONS : Free and fair elections are a necessary—but not sufficient—condition of democracy. (Uwe Bott: U.S. international political-economic consultant, Born 1956)

ELECTIONS : It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes. (Joseph Stalin: Georgian revolutionary and political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death, 1878-1953)

ELECTIONS : It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting. (Thomas Stoppard: Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter who in 1997 was knighted, Born 1937)

ELECTIONS (U.S.A.) : A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election. (Bill Vaughan: U.S. columnist and author, 1915-1977)

ELECTIONS (U.S.A.) : One man, one vote! (John Lewis: U.S. civil rights activist and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from Georgia, 1940-2020)

ELECTRICITY : We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb. (Bill Bryson: U.S. author, Born 1951)

ELOQUENCE : Eloquence is the poetry of prose. (William C. Bryant: U.S. romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post, 1794-1878)

ELOQUENCE : True eloquence consists of saying all that should be, not all that could be, said. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld: French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

ELUCIDATION : Evil is like a shadow; it has no real substance of its own; it is simply a lack of light. In order to cause a shadow—or evil—to disappear, you must shine light on it. (Shakti Gawain: U.S. author and teacher, Born 1948)

EMBARRASSMENT : To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. (John Leonard: U.S. literary, television, film, and cultural critic, 1939-2008)

EMERGENCIES : Always take an emergency calmly. (Chinese Proverb: )

EMIGRATION : A harbor . . . is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return. (Sarah O. Jewett: U.S. poet and novelist, 1849-1909)

EMINENCE : His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape. (John S. Mill: British philosopher, political economist, and civil servant, 1806-1873)

EMOTIONS : Emotions become more violent when expression is stifled. (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)

EMOTIONS : Empathy . . . is the most revolutionary emotion. (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)

EMOTIONS : How can you write if you can't cry? (Ring Lardner: U.S. sports columnist and short-story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre — and whose contemporaries professed strong admiration for his writing, 1885-1933)

EMOTIONS : Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. (William S. Porter: U.S. short story writer, 1862-1910 (Known by his pen name 'O. Henry')

EMOTIONS : No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. (Robert Frost: U.S. poet who received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and who was named the U.S. Poet Laureate, 1874-1963)

EMOTIONS : Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings and not by the intellect. (Herbert Spencer: English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, and sociologist, 1820-1903)

EMOTIONS : People who never get carried away should be. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

EMOTIONS : The eyes are the window of the soul. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)

EMOTIONS : The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it. (Stanley Kubrick: U.S. film director, screenwriter, and producer, 1928-1999)

EMOTIONS : Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either. (Golda Meir: Israeli teacher, kibbutznik, stateswoman, politician, and the fourth Prime Minister of Israel — Israel’s first and only woman to hold the office, known as the ‘Iron Lady’ of Israeli politics, 1917-1951)

EMPATHY : Do not judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. (Native American Proverb: )

EMPATHY : Empathy . . . is the most revolutionary emotion. (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)

EMPATHY : 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)

EMPATHY : Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone. (George Washington: U.S. politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1732-1799)

EMPATHY : No one really understands the grief or joy of another. (Franz Schubert: Austrian composer who despite his short lifetime, left behind a vast collection, including more than 600 secular vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, and a large body of piano and chamber music, 1797-1828)

EMPATHY : The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism. (Hannah Arendt: German-born, U.S. political theorist who is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, 1906-1975)

EMPATHY : The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

EMPATHY : The Sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail. (Rabindranath Tagore: a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)

EMPHASIS : If architects want to strengthen an old arch, they put more weight on it. (Paul McCartney: British singer-songwriter, composer, bass player in the Beatles rock band, poet, and activist, Born 1942)

EMPLOYEES : Employees are the ones making the magic happen — so long as their needs are being met. (Richard Branson: British business magnate and commercial astronaut, Born 1950)

EMPLOYMENT : A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

EMPLOYMENT : Anyone can do any amount of work—provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. (Robert Benchley: U.S. humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor, 1889-1945)

EMPLOYMENT : Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work. (Gustave Flaubert: French novelist and author of "Madame Bovary," 1821-1880)

EMPLOYMENT : Employment is nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness. (Claudius Galen: Greek physician, surgeon, and philosopher in the Roman Empire, arguably the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, 129—c. 216 A.D.)

EMPLOYMENT : Employment is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery. (Robert Burton: English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic,"The Anatomy of Melancholy," 1577-1640)

EMPLOYMENT : Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. (Charles Baudelaire: French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe, 1827-1861)

EMPLOYMENT : If a man loves the labour of his trade . . . the gods have called him. (Robert L. Stevenson: Scottish novelist and travel writer, 1850-1924)

EMPLOYMENT : If I could, I would always work in silence and obscurity and let my efforts be known by their results. (Emily Bronte: English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, "Wuthering Heights," now considered a classic of English literature, 1818-1848)

EMPLOYMENT : If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

EMPLOYMENT : It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. (Upton Sinclair Jr.: U.S. reformer, writer, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1878-1968)

EMPLOYMENT : Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. (James M. Barrie: Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of "Peter Pan," 1860-1937)

EMPLOYMENT : One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it. (Peter Drucker: Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author, 1909-2005)

EMPLOYMENT : The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. (John Ruskin: English art critic, as well as art patron, prominent social thinker, and philanthropist. 1819-1900)

EMPLOYMENT : The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I was a grave digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment. (Douglas W. Jerrold: English dramatist and writer, 1803-1857)

EMPLOYMENT : There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody. (Florynce Kennedy: U.S. lawyer, feminist, civil rights advocate, and lecturer, 1916-2000)

EMPLOYMENT : Unions are why there are fire exits at your work, and why the doors aren’t padlocked during work hours. (Unknown Source: )

EMTINESS : Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. (Alphonse de Lamartine: French writer, poet, and politician, 1790-1869)

ENCOURAGEMENT : Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. (William A. Ward: U.S. writer of essays, maxims, and poems, 1921-1994)

ENCOURAGEMENT : 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)

ENDEAVORS : Never be afraid to try something new. Remember amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic. (Unknown Source: )

ENDINGS : 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)

ENDINGS : You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. (C. S. Lewis: British novelist, lay theologian, broadcaster, 1898-1963)

ENDURANCE : Endurance is patience concentrated. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

ENDURANCE : He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good. (Unknown Source: )

ENDURANCE : Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure. (Marcus Aurelius: Roman stoic philosopher-emperor, known as the last of the so-called 'Five Good Emperors,' 121-180 A.D.)

ENDURANCE : The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

ENDURANCE : We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

ENDURANCE : Whether it be to failure or success, the first need of being is endurance -to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude. (Bliss Carman: Canadian poet who was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate, 1861-)

ENEMIES : A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

ENEMIES : A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies. (William Wrigley: U.S. chewing gum industrialist who, in 1891, founded the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company .)

ENEMIES : A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. (Baltasar Gracian: Spanish Jesuit prose writer and philosopher, 1601-1658)

ENEMIES : Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

ENEMIES : As Pogo said, “We have seen the enemy, and it’s us.” (Unknown Source: )

ENEMIES : I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. (Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

ENEMIES : I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

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

ENEMIES : If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. (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)

ENEMIES : In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. (: )

ENEMIES : Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you. (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

ENEMIES : Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

ENEMIES : Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Napoleon Bonaparte: French military and political leader who twice served as the Emperor of the French and built a large empire that ruled over continental Europe, 1769-1821)

ENEMIES : No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies. (Daisy Bates: U.S. civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer, 1914-1999)

ENEMIES : Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple . . . . Our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt. (Graham Greene: English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century, 1904-1991)

ENEMIES : Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies. (Luc de Clapiers: French writer and moralist, 1715-1747)

ENEMIES : The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people. (Christopher Morley: U.S. journalist, novelist, essayist and poet, 1890-1957)

ENEMIES : The enemy of my enemy is my friend. (Arabic Proverb: )

ENEMIES : 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)

ENERGY : Energy and persistence conquer all things. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

ENERGY : The difference between one man and another is not mere ability . . . it is energy. (Thomas Arnold: English educator and historian, 1795-1842)

ENERGY : The real difference between men is energy. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

ENERGY : Zeal will do more than knowledge. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

ENGAGEMENT : The proper function of man is to live--not to exist. (Jack London: U.S. novelist, journalist, and activist who earned a large fortune from writing, 1876-1916)

ENGLISH GRAMMAR : This is the type of English up with which I will not put. (Unknown Source: )

ENGLISH LANGUAGE : Chickens lay eggs; humans lie down. (Unknown Source: )

ENGLISH LANGUAGE : Modern English is the Wal-Mart of languages: convenient, huge, hard to avoid, superficially friendly, and devouring all rivals in its eagerness to expand. (Mark Abley: Canadian journalist, Born 1955)

ENGLISH LANGUAGE : The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a crib-house whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. (Unknown Source: )

ENGLISH LANGUAGE : There are more people in China who speak English than there are in the U.S. (Unknown Source: )

ENJOYMENT : It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. (Charles H. Spurgeon: English Particular Baptist preacher who opposed the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day, 1834-1892)

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

ENJOYMENT : You can't take it with you. (Frank Capra: Italian-born U.S. film director, producer, and writer who received an Academy Award for Best Director, 1897-1991)

ENLIGHTENMENT : A book must be an axe for the frozen sea inside of us. (Franz Kafka: German language writer of novels and short stories, 1883-1924)

ENLIGHTENMENT : Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments. (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

ENLIGHTENMENT : The mind, once enlightened, cannot again be dark. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

ENLIGHTENMENT : The path of the just, or of justice, is a shining light. (Bible: Proverbs 4:18: )

ENLIGHTENMENT : We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light. (Plato: Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, and founder of the Academy in Athens, c. 428/427 — 348/347 B.C.E.)

ENRICHMENT : The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. (English proverb: )

ENSLAVEMENT : All fear is bondage. (Bible: Hebrews 2:15: )

ENTERTAINMENT : Television is the first truly democratic culture—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. (Clive Barnes: English writer, and dance and theater critic for 'The New York Times,' 1927-2008)

ENTHUSIASM : Enthusiasm moves the world (James Balfour: Scottish landowner and politician, 1775-1845)

ENTHUSIASM : 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)

ENTHUSIASM : I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. (Anatole France: French poet, journalist, novelist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1844-1924)

ENTHUSIASM : I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill. (Edward Appleton: English atmospheric physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1892-1965)

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

ENTHUSIASM : Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch. (Ivern Ball: U.S. amateur writer of aphorisms, 1926-1992)

ENTHUSIASM : Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld: French nobleman and author of maxims and memoirs, 1613-1680)

ENTHUSIASM : Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. (Winston Churchill: British politician who served twice as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1874-1965)

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

ENTHUSIASM : Zeal will do more than knowledge. (William Hazlitt: English essayist, drama and literary critic, painter, social commentator, and philosopher, 1778-1830)

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

ENTITLEMENT : Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. (Earl Warren: U.S. politician and jurist, who served as the Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States, 1891-1974)

ENTREPRENEURS : The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer. (Nolan Bushnell: U.S. businessman and electrical engineer who established Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza, Born, 1943)

ENTREPRENEURS : When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge. (Robert T. Kiyosaki: Japanese-U.S. entrepreneur and author, Born 1947)

ENVIRONMENT : A natural environment is good for the soul. (Unknown Source: )

ENVIRONMENT : Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray. (Irv Kupciinet: U.S. newspaper columnist and television talk-show host, 1912-2003)

ENVIRONMENT : As crude a weapon as the cave man’s club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life. (Rachel Carson: U.S. marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose work advanced the global environmental movement, 1907-1964)

ENVIRONMENT : Civilization exists with geologic consent, subject to change without notice. (Will Durant: U.S. writer, historian, and philosopher, 1885-1981)

ENVIRONMENT : Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. (Aldo Leopold: U.S. author, philosopher, scientist, ecologist, and conservationist, 1886-1948)

ENVIRONMENT : Destroying rainforests for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. (E. O. Wilson: U.S. biologist, naturalist, and author, known as ‘The Darwin of the 21st century,’ Born 1929)

ENVIRONMENT : For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. (Rachel Carson: U.S. marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose work advanced the global environmental movement, 1907-1964)

ENVIRONMENT : He that plants trees loves others besides himself. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

ENVIRONMENT : How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire? (Unknown Source: )

ENVIRONMENT : Humankind is but one thread of the web of life. All things are bound together. All things connect. (Chief Seattle: Suquamish and Duwamish Indian chief who was a leading figure among his people who pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers, for which the city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington, was named, Died 1866)

ENVIRONMENT : I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management. (E. B. White: U.S. writer and author of the highly acclaimed children's book, "Charlotte'sWeb," 1899-1985)

ENVIRONMENT : I would feel more optimistic about man . . . if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. (E. B. White: U.S. writer and author of the highly acclaimed children's book, "Charlotte'sWeb," 1899-1985)

ENVIRONMENT : If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

ENVIRONMENT : If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages. (Isak Dinesen (Pen name-Karen Blixen): Danish author who wrote in both Danish and English, 1885-1962)

ENVIRONMENT : It costs absolutely nothing in nature's way to one day blow us all off the face of the earth or flood the waters of the ocean with her single breath, just to remind man once again that he is not as all-powerful as he still foolishly thinks. (Ray Bradbury: U.S. author and screenwriter who wrote in a variety of genres, 1920-2012)

ENVIRONMENT : It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. (Ansel Adams: U.S. landscape photographer and environmentalist, who received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the U.S. Presidential Award of Freedom, 1902-1984)

ENVIRONMENT : Nature has inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind, and tide. I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

ENVIRONMENT : Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

ENVIRONMENT : Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. (Walt Whitman: U.S. essayist, journalist, and poet, known as the 'Father of Free Verse,' 1819-1992)

ENVIRONMENT : Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we can't eat money. (Unknown Source: )

ENVIRONMENT : Plants know how to make food and medicine from light and water, and then they give it away. (Robin W. Kimmerer: U.S. Professor of Environmental and Forest Biology; Director, Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, Born 1953)

ENVIRONMENT : Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. (Unknown Source: )

ENVIRONMENT : The apple never falls far from the tree. (English proverb: )

ENVIRONMENT : The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now. (Unknown Source: )

ENVIRONMENT : The environment is everything that isn't me. (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)

ENVIRONMENT : 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)

ENVIRONMENT : The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. (Barry Commoner: U.S. cellular biologist, college professor, and politician, 1917-2012)

ENVIRONMENT : The forests are my lungs outside the body. (Joanna Macy: U.S. environmental activist, author, scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology, Born 1929)

ENVIRONMENT : The most important fact about Spaceship Earth: an instruction book didn't come with it. (Buckminster Fuller: U.S. architect, designer, and inventor, 1895-1983)

ENVIRONMENT : The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. (Ralph Nader: U.S. activist, author, speaker, and attorney, Born 1934)

ENVIRONMENT : To damage the earth is to damage your children. (Wendell Berry: U.S. farmer, environmental activist, and cultural critic, Born 1934)

ENVIRONMENT : We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children. (Native American Proverb: )

ENVIRONMENT : We don’t inherit the earth, we borrow it from our children. (Chief Seattle: Suquamish and Duwamish Indian chief who was a leading figure among his people who pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers, for which the city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington, was named, Died 1866)

ENVIRONMENT : We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it, chopped down its forests, leveled its hills, muddied its waters, and dirtied its air. If we were tenants here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago. (Rose Bird: U.S. jurist and Chief Justice of California Supreme Court making her both the first female Justice and the first female Chief Justice, 1936-1999)

ENVIRONMENT : Western man has no need of more superiority over nature . . . . He must learn that he may not do exactly as he wills. If he does not learn this, his own nature will destroy him. (Carl Jung: Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, 1875-1961)

ENVIRONMENT : What is the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on. (Henry David Thoreau: U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

ENVIRONMENT : When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, the last river is polluted, and when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money. (Alanis Obomsawin: Canadian filmmaker, Born 1932)

ENVIRONMENT : Whenever we exploit the earth, we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich; it is a way to be rich. (Unknown Source: )

ENVIRONMENTALISM : Are we being good ancestors? (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)

ENVIRONMENTALISM : Now I can look at you in peace [while admiring fish in an aquarium]; I don't eat you anymore. (Franz Kafka: German language writer of novels and short stories, 1883-1924)

ENVIRONMENTALISM : There are no passengers on spaceship Earth. We are all crew. We just have to act like 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)

ENVIRONMENTALISM : When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted . . . you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money. (Alanis Obamsawin: U.S.-Canadian filmmaker, singer, artist, and activist, Born 1932)

ENVY : Clever men are impressed in their differences from their fellows. Wise men are conscious of their resemblance to them. (R. H. Tawney: English economic historian, social critic, and ethical socialist, 1880-1962)

ENVY : Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another (Marquis d. Condorcet: French philosopher, political economist, politician, and mathematician, 1743-1794)

ENVY : Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly. (Malcolm X: U.S. African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement. 1925-1965)

ENVY : Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy. (Aeschylus: Ancient Greek tragedian who is often described as the ‘Father of Tragedy,' 525—456 B.C.E.)

ENVY : 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)

ENVY : The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field, and our neighbor's cow gives more milk. (Unknown Source: )

ENVY : The Sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of its tail. (Rabindranath Tagore: a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)

EQUALITY : Equaity delayed is justice denied. (Annie: )

EQUALITY : Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

EQUALITY : Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal. (Hannah Arendt: German-born, U.S. political theorist who is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century, 1906-1975)

EQUALITY : Equality, not revenge. (Kimberly Jones: U.S. TV and film promoter and book author)

EQUALITY : If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages. (Isak Dinesen (Pen name-Karen Blixen): Danish author who wrote in both Danish and English, 1885-1962)

EQUALITY : In the field of public education, the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. (Earl Warren: U.S. politician and jurist, who served as the Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States, 1891-1974)

EQUALITY : Justice delayed is justice denied. (William E. Gladstone: British statesman who served for 12 years as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, spread over four non-consecutive terms, and he also also served as Chancellor of the Exchequer four times, for over 12 years, 1809-1898)

EQUALITY : Justice for all alike—a square deal for every man, great or small, rich or poor. (Theodore Roosevelt: U.S. statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th U.S. president, 1858-1919)

EQUALITY : No longer can inequality in economic resources balance equality in political resources. (Marshall Ganz: U.S. national social organizer, Born 1943)

EQUALITY : One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world. (Malaya Yousafzai: Pakistani activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Born 1997)

EQUALITY : People want dignity, bread, and fairness — and see their ruling elites as parasites gorging themselves on the labor of others. (William DuBay: U.S. Catholic priest and social activist, Born 1934)

EQUALITY : Political equality is meaningless in the face of economic inequality. (Franklin D. Roosevelt: U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

EQUALITY : The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. (John Dalberg-Acton: English Catholic historian, politician, and writer, 1834-1902)

EQUALITY : The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. (: )

EQUALITY : The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself. (Robert Ingersoll: U.S. attorney, writer and orator who campaigned in defense of agnosticism and who was nicknamed 'The Great Agnostic,' 1833-1899)

EQUALITY : 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)

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

EQUALITY : When all Americans are treated as equal, all are free. (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)

EQUALITY : You can only protect your liberties . . . by protecting the other man’s freedom. (Clarence Darrow: U.S. leading member of the Civil Rights Union and attorney in the famous Leopold-Loeb trial, as well as the Scopes ‘Monkey’ trial, 1857-1938)

EQUALITY (U.S.A.) : Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. (Abraham Lincoln: U.S. politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865)

EQUALITY (U.S.A.) : Justice too long delayed is justice denied. (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)

EQUALITY (U.S.A.) : We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights; (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

EQUITY : A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. (Samuel Johnson: English poet, playwright, essayist, critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer, 1709-1784)

EQUITY : A riot is the language of the unheard. (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)

EQUITY : A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. (Ralph Nader: U.S. activist, author, speaker, and attorney, Born 1934)

EQUITY : As long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. (Robert F. Kennedy: U.S. Senator, Attorney General, and civil rights activist, 1925-1968)

EQUITY : Comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable. (Unknown Source: )

EQUITY : Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. (Wendell Berry: U.S. farmer, environmental activist, and cultural critic, Born 1934)

EQUITY : Equal rights for all, special privileges for none. (Thomas Jefferson: U.S. principal author of the 'Declaration of Independence' who later served as the third President of the United States, 1743-1826)

EQUITY : For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women. (Elizabeth Blackwell: British physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, and as a pioneer in promoting education for women in medicine, 1821-1910)

EQUITY : 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)

EQUITY : From each according to their ability, to each according to their need. (Unknown Source: )

EQUITY : Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone. (George Washington: U.S. politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, 1732-1799)

EQUITY : The best way to be more free is to grant more freedom to others. (Carlo Dossi: Italian author and diplomat, 1849-1910)

EQUITY : The most certain test by which we can judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. (John Dalberg-Acton: English Catholic historian, politician, and writer, 1834-1902)

EQUITY : The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the efficiency of transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people. (Unknown Source: )

EQUITY : The welfare of each of us is dependent upon the welfare of all of us. (Theodore Roosevelt: U.S. statesman, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer who served as the 26th U.S. president, 1858-1919)

EQUITY : We all do better when we all do better. (Paul Wellstone: U.S. academic and politician, 1944-2002)

EQUITY : We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. (Konrad Adenauer: German statesman, 1876-1967)

EQUITY : We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others. (Unknown Source: )

EQUITY : We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can (and do) read worthwhile books. (W.E.B. Du Bois: U.S. and Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, 1868-1963))

EQUITY : What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings / For equal division of unequal earnings. (Ebenezer Elliott: English poet and leader to repeal laws which were causing hardship among the poor, 1781-1849)

EQUITY : When all Americans are treated as equal, all are free. (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)

ERA : Too often we forget that genius ... depends upon the data within its reach, that Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions. (Ernest Dimnet: French priest, writer, and lecturer, 1866-1954)

ERASING : Writing is one of the easiest things; erasing is one of the hardest. (Israel Salanter: Lithuanian-German rabbi and leader of the Musar movement in Orthodox Judaism, 1810-1873)

ERNESTNESS : I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard. (William L. Garrison: U.S. abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer, 1805-1879)

ERRORS : An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. (Orlando A. Battista: Canadian-American chemist and author, 1917-1995)

ERRORS : An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won. (Caroline L. Gascoigne: English poet and novelist, 1813-1883)

ERRORS : Error is mortal. (Mary B. Eddy: U.S. writer and leader who established the Church of Christ Scientist, founded 'The Christian Science Monitor,' a global newspaper that has won seven Pulitzer Prizes, and was an inductee to the Women's National Hall of Fame, 1821-1910)

ERRORS : Errors like straws upon the surface flow / Who would search for pearls must dive below. (John Dryden: English poet, literary critic, translator, playwright, and England's first Poet Laureate, 1631-1700)

ERRORS : It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. (Thomas Paine: U.S. political activist, and as a revolutionary he was one of the Founders of the United States of America, 1737-1809)

ERRORS : It is human to err, but it is devilish to remain willfully in error. (St. Augustine: Roman African, early Christian theologian and whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy, 354-430 A.D.)

ERRORS : Love truth, but pardon error. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

ERRORS : Mistakes are the portals for discovery. (James Joyce: Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, teacher, and literary critic, 1882-1941)

ERRORS : Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error. (Johann v. Goethe: German statesman and writer of poetry, dramas, and numerous scientific treatises, 1749-1832)

ERRORS : The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men (Friedrich Nietzsche: German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar, 1844-1900)

ERRORS : To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

ERRORS : To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. (Plutarch: Greek historian, biographer. moralist, and essayist, best known for his in-depth biographies of famous Romans and Greeks detailed in his writings of "Parallel Lives," c. 45—120 C.E.)

ERRORS : Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error? (Beryl Markham: British-Kenyan aviator, author and adventurer who was the first person to fly solo, non-stop across the Atlantic from Britain to North America, 1902-1986)

ESCAPISM : Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness/Where rumour of oppression and deceit/Of unsuccessful or successful war/Might never reach me more (William Cowper: English poet and forerunner of Romantic poetry, 1731-1800)

Estimation : It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. (Douglas Hofstadter: U.S. scholar of cognitive science, physics, and comparative literature, Born 1945)

Estimation : One may miss the mark by aiming too high, as too low. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

ETERNITY : If eternity is understood not as endless duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. (Ludwig Wittgenstein: Austrian-British philosopher, 1889-1951)

ETHICS : Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself. (Felix Adler: German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, influential lecturer on euthanasia, religious leader, and social reformer, 1851-1933)

ETHICS : Ethics in technology is essential in the decades to come. (Kumail Nanjiani: Pakistani-American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and podcast host., Born 1978)

ETHICS : If you view religion as necessary for ethics, you've reduced us to the ethical level of four-year-olds. "If you follow these commandments you'll go to heaven, if you don't you'll burn in hell" is just a spectacular version of the carrots and sticks with which you raise your children. (Unknown Source: )

ETHICS : It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. (Upton Sinclair Jr.: U.S. reformer, writer, and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1878-1968)

ETHICS : Morally tainted money is worth less than the value. (Unknown Source: )

ETHICS : There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there. (Unknown Source: )

ETHICS : Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. (Rene Descartes: French philosopher and mathematician, 1596-1650)

EULOGIES : Why should good words ne’er be said / Of a friend till he is dead? (Daniel W. Hoyt: U.S. minister and Civil War veteran, 1845-1936)

EULOGY : Gone from our sight, but never from our hearts. (Gunnar Mortensen: U.S. television cameraman on the "Good Morning Show," 1982-2022)

EULOGY : Sweets to the sweet. (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)

EULOGY : With our loved one’s passing, heaven gained another angel. (Unknown Source: )

EVALUATION : 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)

EVENING : How lovely are the portals of the night, When stars come out to watch the daylight die. (Thomas Cole: English-born U.S. painter known for his landscape and history paintings, 1801-1848)

EVENT : Failure is an event, never a person. (Zip Ziglar: U.S. author, salesman, and motivational speaker, 1926-2012)

EVIDENCE : Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. (Martin Rees: British cosmologist and astrophysicist with a focus on extra-terrestrial intelligence, Born, 1942)

EVIDENCE : I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. (Lawrence M. Krauss: U.S. theoretical physicist, Born 1954)

EVIDENCE : I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it — observation, measurement, and reasoning. (Isaac Asimov: U.S. professor of biochemistry and science-fiction writer, 1920-1992)

EVIDENCE : One swallow alone does not make the summer. (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)

EVIDENCE : The palest ink is better than the best memory. (Unknown Source: )

EVIL : A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. (Joseph Conrad: Polish-British novelist, 1857-1924)

EVIL : 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)

EVIL : 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)

EVIL : As long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. (Robert F. Kennedy: U.S. Senator, Attorney General, and civil rights activist, 1925-1968)

EVIL : Evil brings men together. (Unknown Source: )

EVIL : Evil is like a shadow; it has no real substance of its own; it is simply a lack of light. In order to cause a shadow—or evil—to disappear, you must shine light on it. (Shakti Gawain: U.S. author and teacher, Born 1948)

EVIL : Evil often triumphs, but never conquers. (Joseph Roux: French Catholic parish priest, poet, and philologist, 1834-1905)

EVIL : God sends meat and the devil sends cooks. (Thomas Deloney: English novelist and balladist, 1543-1600)

EVIL : Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. (Unknown Source: )

EVIL : 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)

EVIL : If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. (John Brunner: British writer of science fiction novels, 1934-1995)

EVIL : Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it. (Henry Fielding: English novelist, dramatist, London magistrate, and considered to be the founder of London's first police force, 1707-1754)

EVIL : Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false. (Bertrand Russell: British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and Nobel Laureate, 1872-1970)

EVIL : Nothing is easier than to denounce the evil doer; Nothing more difficult than understanding him. (Fyodor Dostoevsky: Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and philosopher, 1821-1881)

EVIL : One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. (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)

EVIL : The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EVIL : The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people 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)

EVIL : The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. (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)

EVIL : There can be no good without evil. (Unknown Source: )

EVIL : There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. (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)

EVIL : You can't act like a skunk without someone's getting wind of it. (Unknown Source: )

EVOLUTION : No matter how exalted we think ourselves, how high we have risen, we nevertheless bear the indelible stamp of our lowly origin . . . from so simple a beginning—endless forms, most beautiful, most wonderful, have been or are being evolved. (Charles Darwin: English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution, 1809-1882)

EVOLUTION : Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. (Theodosius Dobzhansky: Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist, 1900-1975)

EVOLUTION : There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage. (William J. Bryan: U.S. politician, attorney, and prosecutor who was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Florida, 1876-1908)

EVOLUTION : You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed. (Ken Kersey: Canadian jazz pianist who spent most of his life working in the United States, 1916-1983)

EVOLUTION : You can sometimes count every orange on a tree but never all the trees in a single orange. (A. K. Ramanujan: Indian poet, scholar, linguist, philologist, folklorist, translator, and playwright, 1929-1993)

EXAGGERATION : An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper. (Kahlil Gibran: Lebanese-American writer in both Arabic and English, visual artist, and Syrian nationalist, 1883-1931)

EXAGGERATION : Some folks never exaggerate--they just remember big. (Unknown Source: )

EXAMPLES : A good example is worth a thousand theories. (Stanley Fischer: U.S. and Israeli economist, Born 1943)

EXAMPLES : Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

EXCELLENCE : There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

EXCELLENCE : We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. (Will Durant: U.S. writer, historian, and philosopher, 1885-1981)

EXCEPTIONALITY : As any farmer knows, it’s usually the brightest goat in the herd that stirs up the most trouble. (Juval Harari: )

EXCEPTIONALITY : In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. (Desiderius Erasmus: Dutch philosopher and scholar, considered to have been one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance. (1466-1536))

EXCEPTIONALITY : One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. But no machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. (Elbert Hubbard: U.S. leader of community arts, author, editor, printer, and philosopher, 1856-1915)

EXCEPTIONALITY : The thing that makes you exceptional . . . is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. (Lorraine Hansberry: U.S. author and the first black woman to write a play performed on Broadway, 1930-1965)

EXCLUSION : Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world. (Pearl Buck: U.S. writer, novelist, and recipient of the Pulitzer prize, as well as the first U.S. female recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1892-1973)

EXCLUSION : 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)

EXCUSES : An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. (Alexander Pope: English poet who is considered the second most quoted writer in the English language after Shakespeare, 1688-1744)

EXCUSES : Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. (Samuel Lover: Irish songwriter, composer, novelist, and a painter of portraits, 1797-1868)

EXCUSES : Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. (James Baldwin: U.S. novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic who focused on racial, sexual, and class distinctions, 1924-1987)

EXCUSES : We tell ourselves stories in order to live. (Joan Didion: U.S. writer and nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography/Autobiography, Born 1934)

EXERCISE : Every time I hear that dirty word 'exercise' I wash my mouth out with chocolate. (Unknown Source: )

EXERCISE : 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.)

EXERCISE : Muscles are meant to move. (Matthew Redfern: U.S. physical therapist, Born 1987)

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

EXERCISE : Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. (Edward Stanley: British statesman, 1826-1893)

EXERCISE : Walking is also an ambulation of mind. (Gretel Ehrlich: U.S. travel writer, poet, novelist, and essayist, Born 1946)

EXERCISE : Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes. (Robert Hutchins: U.S. educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School, and president and chancellor of the University of Chicago, 1899-1977)

EXPECTATIONS : A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault. (John H. Newman: Anglican priest, poet, theologian, and later a Catholic cardinal, 1801-1890)

EXPECTATIONS : Better is the enemy of the good. (Unknown Source: )

EXPECTATIONS : Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. (Laura Schlessinger: U.S. talk radio host, author, and an inductee to the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, Born 1947)

EXPECTATIONS : Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. (Arnold H. Glasow: U.S. businessman, 1905-1998)

EXPECTATIONS : Good is not good, where better is expected. (Thomas Fuller: English theologian, historian, and prolific writer, 1608-1661)

EXPECTATIONS : 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)

EXPECTATIONS : Have a high standard for yourself and a medium one for everyone else. (Marcelene Cox: U.S. writer, 1899-1998)

EXPECTATIONS : He that will have a perfect brother must resign himself to remaining brotherless. (Unknown Source: )

EXPECTATIONS : 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)

EXPECTATIONS : Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one. (Unknown Source: )

EXPECTATIONS : 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)

EXPECTATIONS : If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it. (Malcolm Forbes: U.S. wealthy entrepreneur, most prominently known as the publisher of 'Forbes' magazine, 1919-1990)

EXPECTATIONS : It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. (Evelyn Waugh: English writer of novels, travel books, and biographies, 1903-1966)

EXPECTATIONS : It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives. (Charles D. Warner: U.S. essayist and novelist, 1820-1900)

EXPECTATIONS : Let's hope . . . that Americans come to realize that Washington is dysfunctional not because of the venality of the politicians but rather because of the appetites of the people they represent—who want benefits and lowered taxes, but a balanced budget. (Fareed Zakariah: Indian-American world-affairs journalist, TV commentator, and author, Born 1964)

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

EXPECTATIONS : My expectations—which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals—made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success. (Ellen S. Stern: U.S. motivational speaker, best-selling author, and champion of people suffering from chronic illness, Born 1954)

EXPECTATIONS : People are lucky and unlucky . . . according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. (Samuel Butler: English author, 1835-1902)

EXPECTATIONS : The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. (John Galsworthy: English novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1867-1933)

EXPECTATIONS : The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat. (Unknown Source: )

EXPECTATIONS : The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all. (Joyce Brothers: U.S. psychologist, television personality, and columnist who wrote a daily newspaper advice column for 53 years, 1927-2013)

EXPECTATIONS : The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our actions. (Andre Godin: French industrialist, writer, political theorist, and social innovator, 1817-1888)

EXPECTATIONS : The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone. (Stella I. Charnaud: English philanthropist who founded the Women's Voluntary Service and became the first female member in the House of Lords, 1894-1971)

EXPECTATIONS : To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are. (Unknown Source: )

EXPECTATIONS : To expect life to be tailored to our specifications is to invite frustration. (Unknown Source: )

EXPECTATIONS : Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. (Maurice Setter: English former soccer player and manager, Born 1936)

EXPECTATIONS : Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected. (Alice James: U.S. diarist and sister of novelist Henry James and philosopher and psychologist William James, 1848-1892)

EXPECTATIONS : Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. (William Congreve: English playwright and poet of the Restoration period who is known for his clever, satirical dialogue, 1670-1729)

EXPECTATIONS : Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. (Edward de Bono: Maltese physician, psychologist, author, and inventor, Born 1933)

EXPECTATIONS : We tend to get what we expect. (Norman V. Peale: U.S. minister and author known for his work in popularizing the concept of positive thinking, 1898-1993)

EXPECTATIONS : What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous. (Voltaire: French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and an advocate for separation of church and state, 1694-1778)

EXPECTATIONS : When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your yardstick. (Bill Lemley: U.S. writer, Born 1954)

EXPECTATIONS : 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)

EXPENSES : Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

EXPERIENCE : A burnt child dreads the fire. (English proverb: )

EXPERIENCE : A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. (Oliver W. Holmes Sr.: U.S. poet, novelist, essayist, polymath, and physician, 1809-1894)

EXPERIENCE : All that happens to us—our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments—all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. (Jorge L. Borges: Argentine essayist and poet, 1899-1986)

EXPERIENCE : Ask the experienced rather than the learned. (Arabic Proverb: )

EXPERIENCE : Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled. (Muhammad (Prophet): )

EXPERIENCE : Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. (Franklin P. Jones: U.S. columnist, 1908-1980)

EXPERIENCE : Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn. (C. S. Lewis: British novelist, lay theologian, broadcaster, 1898-1963)

EXPERIENCE : Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. (Minna Antrim: U.S. writer, 1861-1950)

EXPERIENCE : Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards. (Unknown Source: )

EXPERIENCE : Experience is making the same mistake over and over again, only with greater confidence. (Carter Mecher: U.S. Senior Adviser for the Office of Public Health who devised strategies to mitigate the consequences of a pandemic and promote pandemic preparedness.)

EXPERIENCE : Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. (Aldous Huxley: English writer and philosopher who wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—and was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time, 1894-1963)

EXPERIENCE : Experience is not what happens to people; it is what they do with what happens to them. (Unknown Source: )

EXPERIENCE : Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. (Steven A. Wright: U.S. stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and film producer, Born 1955)

EXPERIENCE : Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy. (Thomas Carlyle: Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

EXPERIENCE : Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes. (Oscar Wilde: Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

EXPERIENCE : Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you're too old to get the job. (Unknown Source: )

EXPERIENCE : Experience is the teacher of all things. (Julius Caesar: Roman dictator, politician, and military general who played a critical role in the rise of the Roman Empire, 100—44 B.C.E.)

EXPERIENCE : Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. (Vernon Law: U.S. baseball pitcher who played sixteen seasons in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Born 1930)

EXPERIENCE : Experience teaches only the teachable. (Aldous Huxley: English writer and philosopher who wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—and was widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time, 1894-1963)

EXPERIENCE : Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

EXPERIENCE : Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. (Will Rogers: U.S. stage and motion picture actor, vaudeville performer, newspaper columnist, and social commentator, 1879-1935)

EXPERIENCE : Have you learn’d lessons only of those who admired you? Have you also learn’d great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you? (Walt Whitman: U.S. essayist, journalist, and poet, known as the 'Father of Free Verse,' 1819-1992)

EXPERIENCE : I am who I am because of the bridges I have crossed. (Rhea Zakich: U.S. communications consultant and creator of the 'Ungame,' Born 1935)

EXPERIENCE : I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life. (Rumi: 13th-century Persian 13th century poet, Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian, and Sufi mystic, 1207-1273)

EXPERIENCE : It is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way. (Havelock Ellis: English physician, writer, and progressivesocial reformer who studied human sexuality, 1859-1939)

EXPERIENCE : Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person. (Pema Chodron: U.S. Tibetan Buddhist nun, Born 1936)

EXPERIENCE : Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EXPERIENCE : Life is ours to be spent, not something to be saved. (D. H. Lawrence: English writer, novelist, poet, and essayist, 1885-1930)

EXPERIENCE : Life is trying things to see if they work. (Ray Bradbury: U.S. author and screenwriter who wrote in a variety of genres, 1920-2012)

EXPERIENCE : Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. (George B. Shaw: Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1856-1950)

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

EXPERIENCE : One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning (James R. Lowell: U.S,. poet, critic, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)

EXPERIENCE : Our backs tell stories our books have no spine to carry. (Rupi Kaur: Indian-Canadian poet, writer, illustrator, and performer, Born 1992)

EXPERIENCE : Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are. (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)

EXPERIENCE : Read one thousand books AND walk one thousand miles. (Unknown Source: )

EXPERIENCE : Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges. (Laura M. Towne: Ul.S. abolitionist and educator who is best known for forming the first freedmen's schools, 1825-1901)

EXPERIENCE : The burnt child dreads the fire. (Ben Jonson: English playwright and poet, who is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, 1572-1637)

EXPERIENCE : The life of the law has not been logic, it has been experience. (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)

EXPERIENCE : The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. (L. T. Holdcroft: English dramatist, poet, and translator who helped Thomas Paine publish the first part of "The Rights of Man," 1745-1809)

EXPERIENCE : 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)

EXPERIENCE : There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man. (Louis L'Amour: U.S. author of novels and short stories, many of which were made into films, 1908-1988)

EXPERIENCE : To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. (Samuel T. Coleridge: English poet and philosopher, 1772-1834)

EXPERIENCE : To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than. (Oskar Homolke: Austrian film and theater actor, 1898-1978)

EXPERIENCE : Today is yesterday's pupil. (Benjamin Franklin: Leading Founder of the U.S., author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790)

EXPERIENCE : What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. (Isadora Duncan: U.S. and French dancer who performed to acclaim throughout Europe, 1877-1927)

EXPERIENCE : What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. (Mignon McLaughlin: U.S journalist and author, 1913-1983)

EXPERIENCE : Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. (Unknown Source: )

EXPERIENCE : You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over. (Richard Branson: British business magnate and commercial astronaut, Born 1950)

EXPERIENCES : We learn from two experiences: Love and Death. (Vivian Elaine Johnson: U.S. writer, speaker, and counselor, Born 1935)

EXPERIMENTATION : We will not know unless we begin. (Peter N. Zarlenga: U.S. author and orator, 1943-2007)

EXPERIMENTING : Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own. (Logan P. Smith: U.S.- born British essayist and critic who was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, 1865-1946)

EXPERIMENTS : I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. (Pablo Picasso: Spanish painter, sculptor, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France, 1881-1973)

EXPERIMENTS : When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t. (Thomas A. Edison: U.S. businessman and inventor who developed the phonograph, motion picture camera, and the electric light bulb, 1847-1931)

EXPERTISE : The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer. (German Proverb: )

EXPERTS : An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. (Niels Bohr: Danish physicist and leader in understanding atomic structure and quantum theory for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, 1885-1962)

EXPERTS : The expert in anything was once a beginner. (Helen Hayes: U.S. actress, often referred to as the "First Lady of American Theatre", 1900-1993)

EXPLANATIONS : If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (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)

EXPLETIVES : Expletives serve opinions well which are not sure enough of themselves to risk expression in restrained language. (Henry S. Haskins: U.S. stockbroker and man of letters, 1875-1957)

EXPLOITATION : If I want to aid the poor, that is, to help the poor not to be poor, I ought not make them poor (through exploitation). (Leo Tolstoy: Russian novelist and philosopher, 1828-1910)

EXPLORATION : A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

EXPLORATION : 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)

EXPLORATION : Do not follow where the path leads. Rather, go where there is no path and leave a trail. (Ralph W. Emerson: U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

EXPLORATION : Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. (Muriel Strode: U.S. poet and writer, 1875-1930)

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

EXPLORATION : Life is ours to be spent, not something to be saved. (D. H. Lawrence: English writer, novelist, poet, and essayist, 1885-1930)

EXPLORATION : Life is trying things to see if they work. (Ray Bradbury: U.S. author and screenwriter who wrote in a variety of genres, 1920-2012)

EXPLORATION : Meditate to mitigate. (Unknown Source: )

EXPLORATION : One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

EXPLORATION : Throw your dream into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country. (Anais Nin: French-Cuban American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica, 1903-1977)

EXPLORATION : 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)

EXPLORATION : Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one corner of the earth all one's lifetime. (Mark Twain: U.S. writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, 1835-1910)

EXPLORATION : We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Andre Gide: French author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1869-1951)

EXPLORATION : We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. (T. S. Eliot: U.S.- born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature who at age 39 became a British subject, subsequently renouncing his U.S. passport, 1888-1965)

EXPLORATION : What we see depends mainly on what we look for. (John Lubbock: English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist, and polymath who coined the terms 'Paleolithic' and 'Neolithic' to denote the Old and New Stone Ages, respectively, 1834-1913)

EXPLORATION : You don't have to know where you're going, as long as you're on your way. (Unknown Source: )

EXPLORATION : Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers. (Unknown Source: )

EXPOSURE : The mind grows by what it feeds on. (Josiah G. Holland: U.S. novelist, poet, and co-founder/editor of 'Scribner's Monthly,' 1819-1881)

EXTINCTION : It costs absolutely nothing in nature's way to one day blow us all off the face of the earth or flood the waters of the ocean with her single breath, just to remind man once again that he is not as all-powerful as he still foolishly thinks. (Ray Bradbury: U.S. author and screenwriter who wrote in a variety of genres, 1920-2012)

EXTREMISM : Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. (George Santayana: U.S. philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist, 1863-1952)

EYES : The eyes are the window of the soul. (Marcus Cicero: Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, and philosopher whose principles led to the establishment of the Roman Empire, 106-43 B.C.E.)