- A -
- If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your
business.
Joey Adams
- Smack your child every day. If you don't know why -- he does.
Joey Adams
- Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking thought.
Theodor Adorno
- Distrust unsolicited advice.
Aesop
- Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Aesop
- Do not do what you would undo if caught.
Leah Ahrendt
- To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.
Muhammad Ali
- Never judge a work of art by its defects.
Washington Allston
- Counsel is the mirror of the intellect. If, therefore, you would like to know the capacity of anyone, ask for their advice.
Muhammad Ibn Zafar Al-Siquilli
- Even as the iron cleaves to the magnet, so does success to patience. Endure, therefore, and you shall conquer.
Muhammad Ibn Zafar Al-Siquilli
- Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the plowshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring.
Henri Frederic Amiel
- Remember: It is 10 times harder to command the ear than to catch the eye.
Duncan Maxwell Anderson
- Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.
Anon.
- If you fail to plan you plant to fail.
Anon.
- When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.
Anon.
- Always imitate the behavior of winners when you lose.
Anon.
- If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record.
Anon.
- Take care that the face that looks out from the mirror in the
morning is a pleasant face. You may not see it again during the day, but
others will.
Anon.
- If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the
world will not raise your price.
Anon.
- Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone.
Anon.
- Be kind to your hair, you'll miss it when it's gone.
Anon.
- Eat whatever thou likest, but dress as others do.
Arab Proverb
- When you are an anvil be patient; when a hammer, strike.
Arab Proverb
- Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.
Arab Proverb
- Prepare for the worst; expect the best; an take what comes.
Hannah Arendt
- Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
Yassir Arafat
- Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first.
Brooks Atkinson
- If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
John Atkinson
- Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius
- The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
Marcus Aurelius
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius
- Give full attention and devotion to each act.
Marcus Aurelius
- Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.
Marcus Aurelius
- If it is not right, don't do it; if it is not true, don't say it.
Marcus Aurelius
- B -
- Shop for security over happiness, and you buy it, at that price.
Richard Bach
- There is surely no grrater wisrom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.
Francis Bacon
- Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
Francis Bacon
- Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon
- He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.
Francis Bacon
- The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball
- Never practice two vices at once.
Tallulah Bankhead
- You must know the the story of your culture and be proud of your ancestors.
Romana Banuelos
- Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.
Maurice Baring
- Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
James Matthew Barrie
- You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.
Ethel Barrymore
- Try to go through life a little bit hungry. You never know when you'll meet someone edible.
T.J. Bass, Half Past Human (1970)
- There is always time to take more time.
Augusto Roa Bastos
- Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.
Beaumarchais
- To make a good enemy, take a friend; he knows where to strike.
Marie-Josephine de Suin de Beausacq
- Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher
- You need to get up in the morning and say, "Boy, I'm going to -- in my own stupid way -- save the world today.
Carol Bellamy
- When you see a snake, never mind where he came from.
W.G. Benham
- Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has
happened.
Arnold Bennett
- Call no man foe but never love a stranger.
Stella Benson
- If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
Al Bernstein
- Don't turn a small problem into a big one. Just say yes to your mother.
Sally Berger
- The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Sally Berger
- Think twice before you speak to a friend in need.
Ambrose Bierce
- Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business.
Cheat.
Ambrose Bierce
- Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can
let go when you want to.
Josh Billings
- Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Josh Billings
- Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
Josh Billings
- Figure out what your most magnificent qualities are and make them indispensible to the people you want to work with. Notice I didn't say "work for."
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
- Be glad today. Tomorrow may bring tears.
Be brave today. The darkest night will pass
And golden rays will usher in the dawn.
Who conquers now shall rule the coming years.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
- Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Erma Bombeck
- The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
- If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
Elizabeth Bowen
- Shop as though money were a consensual hallucination.
Andrew Boyd
- Accessorize your rebellion.
Andrew Boyd
- Take the kids to see what never was.
Andrew Boyd
- Be profoundly superficial.
Andrew Boyd
- Love the right wrong person.
Andrew Boyd
- Never use intuition.
Omar Bradley
- Always behave like a duck -- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
Jacob Braude
- If you can't return a favour, pass it on.
Louise Brown
- I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
Rita Mae Brown
- Better to be the servant of many masters than of another servant.
Wieslaw Brudzinski
- If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
Beau Brummel
- Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is boring without it.
Pearl S. Buck
- Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
Buddha, The Dhammapada (c. B.C. 300)
- O seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing.
Buddha
- Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
Buddha
- If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Leo F. Buscaglia
- At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
Barbara Bush
- Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess
- Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give
clearer light as to what is best to be done.
Aaron Burr
- Everyone should keep a mental waste-paper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up in unrecoverable tatters.
Samuel Butler
- To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
Charles Buxton
- C -
- You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus.
- Don't wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
Albert Camus
- Explain nothing. Put it there. Say it. Leave.
Elias Canetti
- You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than you can with a
kind word alone.
Al Capone
- If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
George Carlin
- Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
--George Carlin
- Be not a slave of words.
Thomas Carlyle
- Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.
Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger.
If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of
themselves.
Dale Carnegie
- If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying
there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie
- When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Dale Carnegie
- Don't get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny.
Kathryn Carpenter
- Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then
stop.
Lewis Carrol, from Alice in Wonderland
- Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even.
James Carville
- If you aren't rich, ou should always look useful.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes
- Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.
Miguel de Cervantes
- Patience, and shuffle the cards.
Miguel de Cervantes
- Let everyone turn himself around, and look at home, and he will find enough to do.
Miguel de Cervantes
- In action, be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.
Rene Char
- Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
Lord Chesterfield
- You must look into people, as well as at them.
Lord Chesterfield
- Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Lord Chesterfield
- Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.
Lord Chesterfield
- Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Lord Chesterfield
- The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G. K. Chesterton
- When you walk through your neighbor's melon patch, do not tie your shoe.
Chinese Proverb
- To know the road ahead ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb
- Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.
Chinese Proverb
- Hold back some goods for a thousand days and you will be sure to sell at a profit.
Chinese Proverb
- Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Winston Churchill
- If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or
clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back
and hit it again. Then hit it a third time--a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill
- When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill
- If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
- If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Cicero
- Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Karen Kaiser Clark
- Strain every nerve in every possible way to know and experience yourself as you really are.
The Cloud of Unknowing
- You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
Jean Cocteau
- Advice is like snow; the softr it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
Joan Collins
- Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
John Churton Collins
- Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck
out.
James Bryant Conant
- From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.
Cyril Connolly
- No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge
- Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.
Jilly Cooper
- Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with People
Don Corleone from The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.
Randle Cotgrave
- Sunburn is very becoming -- but only when it is even -- one must be
careful not to look like a mixed grill.
Noel Coward
- Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard
pressed.
Coleman Cox
- There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire
someone, or forbid your kids to do it.
Monta Crane
- Put your trust in God -- but keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell
- D -
- Pistachio nuts, the red ones, solve any problem.
Paula Danzinger, The Pistachiio Prescription (1978)
- Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.
Clarence Darrow
- Ask counsel of him who governs himself well.
Leonardo da Vinci
- If you want a thing well done, get a couple of old broads to do it.
Bette Davis
- The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober: not always, but most of the time.
Clarence Day
- Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not
on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
- Keep up appearances whatever you do.
Charles Dickens
- Don't bite the hand that has your allowance in it.
Paul Dickson
- Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
- Be nice to your children, for they will choose your rest home.
Phyllis Diller
- Life is too short to be small.
Benjamin Disraeli
- Never take anything for granted.
Benjamin Disraeli
- Never complain and never explain.
Benjamin Disraeli
- Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin Disraeli
- Read no history; nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Benjamin Disraeli
- Damn your principles. Stick to your party.
Benjamin Disraeli
- Beware the fury of a patient man.
John Dryden, Oedipus, 1679
- Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
Finley Peter Dunne
- Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish
last.
Leo Durocher
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