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“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Action is the real measure of intelligence.” — Napoleon Hill

“Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.” — Alan Alda

“Belief is the death of intelligence.” — Robert Anton Wilson

“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire

“Every true genius is bound to be naive.” — Friedrich Schiller

“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.” — Josh Billings

“Genius always finds itself a century too early.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.” — E. B. White

“I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.” — James Whistler

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.” — Mark Twain

“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.” — Woodrow Wilson

“I’m not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I’m not dumb… and I also know that I’m not blonde.” — Dolly Parton

“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? — Scott Adams

“Intelligence is not a science.” — Frank Carlucci

“Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.” — Susan Sontag

“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.” — Victor Hugo

“Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” — Salvador Dali

“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” — Albert Einstein

“Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.” — Ambrose Bierce

“Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.” — Henri Frederic Amiel

“Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.” — Gracie Allen

“The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.” — Alexander Pope

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” — Albert Einstein

“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.” — Ronald Reagan

“There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.” — Josh Billings

“There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.” — Don Herold

“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.” — Albert Einstein

“What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.” — Sigmund Freud

“Wit is educated insolence.” — Aristotle

Quotations on change from brainyquote.com

“Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.” — Bruce Barton

“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.” — Ellen Glasgow

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” — Anatole France

“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.” — Dean Acheson

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.” — Arnold Bennett

“Anyone who thinks there’s safety in numbers hasn’t looked at the stock market pages.” — Irene Peter

“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.” — Bertolt Brecht

“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

“Change is inevitable – except from a vending machine.” — Robert C. Gallagher

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

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” — Harold Wilson

“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.” — Carl Jung

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” — Frederick Douglass

“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” — Gail Sheehy

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” — Maya Angelou

“If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change.” — John A. Simone, Sr.

“Ignorance is no excuse, it’s the real thing.” — Irene Peter

“In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.” — Benjamin Disraeli

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” — C. S. Lewis

“It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.” — Mignon McLaughlin

“Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.” — Irene Peter

“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” — Confucius

“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.” — Charles Kettering

“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” — Confucius

“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.” — Francis Bacon

“Things do not change; we change.” — Henry David Thoreau

“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.” — Harrison Ford

“We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.” — Carl T. Rowan

“We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.” — R. D. Laing

“When you are through changing, you are through.” — Bruce Barton

“When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.” — Stanislaw Lec

“Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.” — Shunryu Suzuki

“Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.” — Frank Herbert

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mohandas Gandhi

“Plato said
Platonic is good
Even simple friendships
Can put you in a good mood

But it’s the frienships that endure
the friendships that cure
the friendships that inspire
that are the best for sure!” — Maxwell Jennings Oct 17 2009

Quotations on friendship drawn from brainyquote.com

“A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.” — Alice Duer Miller

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” — Elbert Hubbard

“A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.” — Pam Brown

“A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” — Leo Buscaglia

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” — Arnold H. Glasow

“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.” — Buddha

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.” — George Washington

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one’s own despised and unwanted feelings.” — Alice Duer Miller

“Don’t ever dare to take your college as a matter of course – because, like democracy and freedom, many people you’ll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.” — Alice Duer Miller

“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.” — Shirley MacLaine

“Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.” — Aristotle

“Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” — Mencius

“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.” — C. S. Lewis

“Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.” — Dag Hammarskjold

“Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” — Muhammad Ali

“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.” — Katherine Mansfield

“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” — Plutarch

“I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.” — Thomas A. Edison

“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.” — Robert Brault

“If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.” — George MacDonald

“If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.” — Alice Duer Miller

“In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” — Albert Schweitzer

“It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.” — Mignon McLaughlin

“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.” — Epicurus

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” — John Leonard

“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” — Marlene Dietrich

“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” — Marcel Proust

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.” — Emil Ludwig

“Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.” — Samuel Pepys

“Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.” — Plautus

“One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.” — George Santayana

“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.” — Toni Morrison

“Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.” — Margaret Lee Runbeck

“Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.” — Francesco Guicciardini

“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.” — William Blake

“The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” — Elbert Hubbard

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” — Henry David Thoreau

“The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.” — Henry David Thoreau

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?” — Eugene Kennedy

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” — Saint Thomas Aquinas

“True friends stab you in the front.” — Oscar Wilde

“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.” — Joseph Roux

“When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.” — Edward W. Howe

“When a woman like that whom I’ve seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.” — Alice Duer Miller

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.” — Henri Nouwen

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.” — Aristotle

“Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.” — Sarah Orne Jewett

“You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.” — Laurence J. Peter

“Forgiveness is that human quality that has more to do with the expectations of the person wanting forgiveness than it does the acceptance of forgiveness; either is typically subjective and rarely unconditional. Forgiving oneself is more of an effort than forgiving others, and yet, forgiving yourself is more important than receiving forgiveness from others. Learn to give and receive forgiveness unconditionally.” — Maxwell Jennings

Forgive and forget? Why not learn from your mistakes that affect other people so that you don’t repeat yourself in error. The following selected quotes are copied from brainyquote.com.

“A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.” — Alexander Chase

“Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.” — Oscar Wilde

“For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

“Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.” — Ausonius

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” — John F. Kennedy

“Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting.” — Peter Allen

“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.” — William A. Ward

“Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.” — Suzanne Somers

“Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.” — Indira Gandhi

“Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.” — Dag Hammarskjold

“Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.” — Hannah More

“Forgiveness is the final form of love.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” — Mark Twain

“Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.” — George MacDonald

“Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.” — Hannah Arendt

“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.” — Gerald Jampolsky

“He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.” — Thomas Fuller

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.” — Henry Ward Beecher

“I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.” — Chaim Herzog

“If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” — William Blake

“It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.” — Grace Hopper

“It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.” — Lewis B. Smedes

“It’s far easier to forgive an enemy after you’ve got even with him.” — Olin Miller

“It’s said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies – because you never know when you’ll have to work with them.” — Lana Turner

“Life is an adventure in forgiveness.” — Norman Cousins

“More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.” — Alexander Chase

“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.” — Marlene Dietrich

“One forgives to the degree that one loves.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.” — Elbert Hubbard

“The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.” — Alexander Chase

“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.” — Oscar Wilde

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” — Mohandas Gandhi

“There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” — Bryant H. McGill

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.” — Josh Billings

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” — Alexander Pope

“To understand is to forgive, even oneself.” — Alexander Chase

“When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it – whether it be a factory or a government.” — Alexander Chase

“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.” — Emo Philips

“When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.” — Lewis B. Smedes

“When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.” — Bernard Meltzer

“Without forgiveness, there’s no future.” — Desmond Tutu

“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.” — Lewis B. Smedes

“My imagination is constantly running and turned on by many aspects and experiences of life. Without my imagination, I would be a drone, a shell, a closed-minded sponge available only to what other people put into it. My imagination let’s me envision things that have never existed and my creativity helps me bring those visions to the canvas.” — Maxwell Jennings

Here is another installment of quotations. This set deals with imagination and creativity. These quotations are found at brainyquote.com.

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.” — Orison Swett Marden

“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.” — Joseph Addison

“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” — Jessamyn West

“I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.” — Peter Nivio Zarlenga

“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” — Duane Michals

“I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” — Theodor Geisel

“I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.” — Calvin Trillin

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” — Pablo Picasso

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” — Michelangelo

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” — George S. Patton

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” — Simone Weil

“Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.” — L. Frank Baum

“Imagination rules the world.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.” — Carl Sagan

“It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.” — Paul Gauguin

“It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” — Lewis Carroll

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Live out of your imagination, not your history.” — Stephen Covey

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” — George S. Patton

“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.” — William Butler Yeats

“Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.” — Stephen Leacock

“Some stories are true that never happened.” — Elie Wiesel

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

“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” — Muhammad Ali

“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

“There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.” — Edmund Burke

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.” — Francis Bacon

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Theodor Geisel

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.” — Edgar Allan Poe

“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.” — Anatole France

“Trust that little voice in your head that says ‘Wouldn’t it be interesting if…’; and then do it.” — Duane Michals

“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” — Mark Twain

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” — Jack London

“One thing is for certain — we live in our bodies. What is not so certain — that we are alive after death. The loss of one human consciousness is a value lost and we will probably never get that person back, no matter what all the religions of the world believe. Let us find a way to preserve our consciousnesses so that one day we may live again!” — Maxwell Jennings

More selected quotations on Life from brainyquote.com

“May you live every day of your life.” — Jonathan Swift

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.” — Arthur Miller

“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.” — Cary Grant

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Harvey Fierstein

“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.” — Brendan Gill

“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.” — Socrates

“Only a few things are really important.” — Marie Dressler

“People living deeply have no fear of death.” — Anais Nin

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” — Marcus Aurelius

“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.” — H. L. Mencken

“The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.” — William Lyon Phelps

“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” — William James

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” — Henry David Thoreau

“The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.” — Karen Horney

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” — Henry David Thoreau

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” — Robert Byrne

“There is no wealth but life.” — John Ruskin

“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.” — William James

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” — Emily Dickinson

“Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.” — E. E. Cummings

“Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.” — Barbara Kingsolver

“We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.” — Lauryn Hill

“What we play is life.” — Louis Armstrong

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.” — Mark Twain

“While there’s life, there’s hope.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.” — Erich Fromm

“You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.” — Quentin Crisp

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” — Albert Camus

“Your life is what your thoughts make it.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Too many people live to die when living should be the goal! I have enough things I want to accomplish on my plate to fill several life times and beyond, so get on with the task of discovering biological immortality already before we each use up our average lifespan of a meager 900 months!” — Maxwell Jennings

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“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” — Charles Darwin

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” — Henry Ellis

“Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.” — Anton Chekhov

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” — William James

“But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.” — Umberto Eco

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” — Buddha

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” — Mark Twain

“Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” — William Wallace

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

“Everything in life is luck.” — Donald Trump

“Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.” — Karen Horney

“God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.” — Garrison Keillor

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.” — Richard Bach

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” — E. B. White

“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” — Alice Roosevelt Longworth

“I love life because what more is there.” — Anthony Hopkins

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.” — John Burroughs

“I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.” — Charles M. Schulz

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” — Josh Billings

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

“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.” — Sholom Aleichem

“Life is a long lesson in humility.” — James M. Barrie

“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”" — Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Life is but thought.” — Sara Teasdale

“Life is half spent before we know what it is.” — George Herbert

“Life is never easy for those who dream.” — Robert James Waller

“Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.” — Fran Lebowitz

“Life is wasted on the living.” — Douglas Adams

“Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.” — Karen Horney

“Life loves the liver of it.” — Maya Angelou

“Life must be lived as play.” — Plato

“Life well spent is long.” — Leonardo da Vinci

“Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.” — Karen Horney

“Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.” — David Lodge

“Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.” — Mel Brooks

“A retarded society allows mystical-based beliefs to control governmental policies and laws, while an evolved society keeps government neutral — for the benefit of everyone. The mob doesn’t always know best and the majority-vote is mob rule.” — Maxwell Jennings

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.” — Barry Goldwater

“A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.” — Barry Goldwater

“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?” – Will Rogers

“Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.” — Richard Lamm

“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.” — James Russell Lowell

“Democracy is an abuse of statistics.” — Jorge Luis Borges

“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.” — H. L. Mencken

“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.” — Sydney J. Harris

“Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

“Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.” — P. J. O’Rourke

“For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.” — Jonathan Swift

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” — P. J. O’Rourke

“Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.” — Fred Woodworth

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” — George Washington

“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” — Thomas Paine

“Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.” — William E. Gladstone

“I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it.” — Alexander Woollcott

“If ‘pro’ is the opposite of ‘con’ what is the opposite of ‘progress’?” — Paul Harvey

“If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.” — Fred Woodworth

“If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” — James Madison

“In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?” — Saint Augustine

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.” — Thomas Jefferson

“It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.” — John W. Gardner

“It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.” — Tom Stoppard

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.” — James Madison

“Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.” — Otto von Bismarck

“Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.” — William Penn

“Majority rule only works if you’re also considering individual rights. Because you can’t have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.” — Larry Flynt

“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” — Denis Diderot

“Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.” — Lily Tomlin

“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.” — Will Rogers

“Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” — Louis D. Brandeis

“Talk is cheap – except when Congress does it.” — Cullen Hightower

“That government is best which governs least.” — Thomas Paine

“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.” — Thomas Jefferson

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” — Winston Churchill

“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.” — Ronald Reagan

“The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.” — Lord Acton

“The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.” – Wilhelm Reich

“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.” — Gore Vidal

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

“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.” — Woodrow Wilson

“The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.” — Thomas Paine

“The mistakes made by Congress wouldn’t be so bad if the next Congress didn’t keep trying to correct them.” – Cullen Hightower

“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.” — Karl Marx

“The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.” — Lewis Mumford

“The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.” — Henry Ward Beecher

“This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.” — Will Rogers

“To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.” — Wendell Phillips

“To rule is easy, to govern difficult.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Washington is a place where politicians don’t know which way is up and taxes don’t know which way is down.” — Robert Orben

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” — Winston Churchill

“You don’t pay taxes – they take taxes.” — Chris Rock