Quote:
I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races.
The races are better.
Author: Mark Helprin
Ref: Winter's Tale
Keywords: victory, racing, incomplete

Quote:
Solutions are not the answer.
Author: Richard Nixon
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
Author: Richard Nixon
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Make money, money, honestly if you can;
if not, by any means at all, make money.
Author: Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] 65BC - 8BC

Quote:
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, 
does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do.
We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we
came from or what we have been about.
Author: Woodrow Wilson
Keywords: incomplete
  
Quote:
We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the
power of government, far from it.  We have staked the future of all of
our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of
self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern
ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the
Ten Commandments of God.
Author: James Madison
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
... Religion ... [is] the basis and foundation of government ...  before
any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be
considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.
Author: James Madison
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human
passions unbridled by morality and religion.  Avarice, ambition, revenge
or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a
whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral
and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate for any other.
Author: John Adams
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please
Author: Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Keywords: incomplete, humor

Quote:
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
Author: Rush
Ref: "Freewill"
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
Author: Churchill
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
A dog will look up on you;
a cat will look down on you;
however, a pig will see you eye to eye
and know it has found an equal.
Author: Churchill
Keywords: animals, incomplete

Quote:
The unexamined life is not worth living to a human.
Author: Attributed by Plato to Socrates.
Ref: "Apology"
Keywords: incomplete
% In Plato's "Apology", the story of the death of Socrates. It's
%"Ho de anexetastos bios ou biotos anthropoi" which is more like "The
% unexamined life is not worth living to a human."  Note the definite
% article.

Quote:
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw
blood in its defense.
Author: Mark A. Overby
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
Ref: Im Memoriam, XXVII, 1850, line 27, stanza 4.
% Im Memoriam was written in memory of Arthur Henry Hallam.
Keywords: exact

Quote:
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing.
Author: Warren Miller
Keywords: incomplete, humor

Quote:
May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
the rains fall soft upon your fields and,
until we meet again may god hold you in the palm of his hand
Author: unknown
Keywords: incomplete
% An old Irish saying.

Quote:
May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead
Author: unknown
Keywords: incomplete
% An Irish toast.

Quote:
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to
seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no 
one will believe it.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Ref: "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism"

Quote:
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to
thank her.
Author: W.C. Fields
Keywords: exact, humor

Quote:
I was brought up in that other service; but I knew from the first that
the Devil was my natural master and captain and friend.  I saw that he
was in the right, and that the world cringed to his conqueror only
from fear.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Ref: "The Devil's Disciple"
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
You believe that there is one God.  Good!  Even the demons believe
that - and shudder.
Author: unknown
Ref: James 3:19 (The Bible, New International Version)
Keywords: exact

Quote:
Rem tene, verba sequntur
"Keep to the subject, and the words will follow"
Author: Cato the Censor (?)
Keywords: incomplete
% An old Roman maxim for authors.

Quote:
USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every
four people make up 75% of the population.
Author: Dave Letterman
Keywords: exact, humor

Quote:
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is
possible, he is almost certainly right.  When he states that something
is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Ref: "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination", in the collection
Ref: "Profiles of the Future", 1962, revised 1973, Harper & Row, paperback
Ref: by Popular Library, ISBN 0-445-04061-0.
% This is Clarke's First Law

Quote:
But the only way of discovering the limits of the
possible is to venture a little way past them into
the impossible.
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Ref: "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination", in the collection
Ref: "Profiles of the Future", 1962, revised 1973, Harper & Row, paperback
Ref: by Popular Library, ISBN 0-445-04061-0.
% This is Clarke's Second Law

Quote:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Ref: "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination", in the collection
Ref: "Profiles of the Future", 1962, revised 1973, Harper & Row, paperback
Ref: by Popular Library, ISBN 0-445-04061-0.
% This is Clarke's Third Law
% Clark adds: As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly
% decided to stop there.

Quote:
Man's greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches,
ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women.
Author: Genghis Khan
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else!  And you yourself
are the will to power - and nothing else!
Author: Nietzsche
Ref: "The Will to Power"
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with
religion.
Author: Archbishop William Temple
Ref: 1955

Quote:
There's no reason to bring religion into it.  I think we ought to have as
great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things
as possible.
Author: Sean O'Casey
Ref: "The Plough and The Stars"

Quote:
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to
enslave a philosohpy.
Author: William Ralph Inge
Ref: 1920

Quote:
Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth.
For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears.
Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.
Author: Lord Samuel
Ref: "Romanes Lecture", 1947

Quote:
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Ref: "St. Joan"
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate
Author: Occam
% This is Occam's razor. Loosely, "multiplicity is not to be asserted
%when it is unnecessary."

Quote:
In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.  The reason
it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.
Author: Charles Mingus
Keywords: incomplete, jazz

Quote:
Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
Author: Charles Schultz, as "Charlie Brown"
Ref: Peanuts, cartoon strip
Keywords: exact

Quote:
How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese?
Author: Charles De Gaulle
Keywords: incomplete
% In French: "On ne peut rassembler les Francais que sous le coup de la peur. 
% On ne peut  pas rassembler a froid un pays qui compte 265
% specialites de fromages."

Quote:
What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.
Author: Sam Levenson
Ref: "You Don't Have to Be in `Who's Who' to Know What's What"
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving
taxi cabs and cutting hair.
Author: George Burns
Keywords: exact, humor
	
Quote:
He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words.  Why does he insist
on using only 150?
Author: Abba Eban
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
On the other hand, it is impossible for a cube to be written as a sum of
two cubes or a fourth power to be written as a sum of two fourth powers
or, in general, for any number which is a power greater than the
second to be written as a sum of two like powers.  I have a truly
marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too
narrow to contain.
Author: Fermat
Ref: "Fermat's Last Theorem", by Harold Edwards
% This is a translation to English from Latin
% This was transcribed from a note that Fermat had written in the margin
% of Bachet's edition of the arithmetic works of Diophantus of Alexandria.
% Further information in Edwards's book (Springer Graduate Texts in
% Mathematics No. 50, 1977).

Quote:
"If you were my husband, i would feed you poison."

"If you were my wife, madam, i would take it!"
Author: Lady Astor and William Churchill
Keywords: exact

Quote:
"Is it true that you smoke eight to ten cigars a day?"

"That's true."

"Is it true that you drink five martinis a day?"  "That's true."

"Is it true that you still surround yourself with beautiful young women?"

"That's true."

"What does your doctor say about all of this?"

"My doctor is dead."
Author: George Burns
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who
exercise.
Author: Red Skelton
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
"Coolidge is dead"                    
"How could they tell?"
Author: Dorothy Parker
Keywords: incomplete, humor

Quote:
Sex between 2 people is a beautiful thing ; between 5 it's 
fantastic ...
Author: Woody Allen
Keywords: incomplete, humor

Quote:
I call that a scumhead.
Author: James Joyce
Ref: "Finnegans Wake"

Quote:
Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's
one of the best.
Author: Woody Allen
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies;
probably because generally they are the same people.
Author: G.K. Chesterton
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom
of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it
without running on rocks or bars.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on
prospering.
Author: Daniel Webster
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because
you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and
your own duty.
Author: Woodrow Wilson
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than 
no inspiration at all.
Author: Rita Mae Brown
Ref: "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual"
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting 
and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
Author: Rita Mae Brown
Ref: "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual"
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have 
courage.
Author: Rita Mae Brown
Ref: "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual"
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
I ask you men...what are you so afraid of? If I am equal to you in 
power, does that diminish you?
Author: Rita Mae Brown
Ref: "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual"
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Morals are private. Decency is public.
Author: Rita Mae Brown
Ref: "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual"
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Novelty is not necessarily a virtue.
Author: Rita Mae Brown
Ref: "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual"
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Television and film demand that people at all levels have brass balls or 
brass ovaries. Unfortunately, we live in the reign of the eunuch.
Author: Rita Mae Brown
Ref: "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual"
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No 
government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The
only queer people are those who don't love anybody. 
Author: Rita Mae Brown
Ref: Gay Olympics, 1982
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? 
Aren't we? Damned if I know.
Author: Rita Mae Brown
Ref: "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual"
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible;
life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace
a right life is possible.
Author: Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)
Ref: "Medidations", book 5.
Keywords: incomplete
% Marcus Aurelius was the last of the Roman Barracks Emperors

Quote:
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all -
that is myself.
Author: Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)
Ref: "Medidations", book 2.
Keywords: incomplete
% Marcus Aurelius was the last of the Roman Barracks Emperors

Quote:
To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
Author: Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)
Ref: "Medidations", book 6.
Keywords: incomplete
% Marcus Aurelius was the last of the Roman Barracks Emperors

Quote:
To stand up -- or be setup?
Author: Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)
Ref: "Medidations", book 6.
Keywords: incomplete
% Marcus Aurelius was the last of the Roman Barracks Emperors

Quote:
A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission.
Author: Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)
Ref: "Medidations", book 9.
Keywords: incomplete
% Marcus Aurelius was the last of the Roman Barracks Emperors

Quote:
A candour affected is a dagger concealed.
Author: Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)
Ref: "Medidations", book 9.
Keywords: incomplete
% Marcus Aurelius was the last of the Roman Barracks Emperors

Quote:
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Author: George Santayana (1863-1952)
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly. 
Author: Henry Spencer
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome
things that money can buy.
Author: Steve Martin
Keywords: incomplete, humor

Quote:
If at first you don't succeed, try again -
if you still fail, give up - no sense being
a damn fool about it.
Author: W.C. Fields
Keywords: incomplete, humor

Quote:
Politics is no exact science.
Author: Otto von Bismark
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Politics is for the moment.  An equation is for eternity. 
Author: Albert Einstein
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality
at any point.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Faith:  not *wanting* to know what is true.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
When in doubt, use brute force
Author: Ken Thompson
Keywords: incomplete, computers
% noted programmer

Quote:
Maybe I should have screwed up.
Author: Ken Thompson
Keywords: incomplete, computers
% noted programmer

Quote:
SCCS is the source-code motel -- your code checks in
but it never checks out.
Author: Ken Thompson
Keywords: incomplete, computers
% noted programmer

Quote:
I know nothing.
Author: Ken Thompson
Keywords: incomplete, computers
% noted programmer

Quote:
Timesharing just doesn't work.
Author: Ken Thompson
Ref: 1982
Keywords: incomplete, computers
% noted programmer

Quote:
Author: Ken Thompson
Just think -- IBM and DEC in the same room -- and we did it.
Makes you feel warm inside.
Keywords: incomplete, computers
% noted programmer

Quote:
If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
Author: Ken Thompson
Keywords: incomplete, computers
% noted programmer

Quote:
... spell `creat' with an E.'
Author: Ken Thompson
Keywords: incomplete, computers
% noted programmer
% When asked what he would do differently if starting UNIX over again.
% Note that in Plan 9, `creat' _is_ spelled with an E.

Quote:
Oh, the tangled webs we weave
When we practice to deceive.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Ref: "Marmion"
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Author: Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
% From Boswell's _Life of Johnson_, vol. 2, p. 344 (6 Apr 1775)

Quote: 
Ich beschw\"ore euch, meine Br\"uder, _bleibt der Erde treu_ und glaubt denen 
nicht, welche euch von \"ubererdischen Hoffnungen reden! Giftmischer sind es, 
ob sie es wissen oder nicht.
Author: Nietzsche
Ref: "Also Sprach Zarathustra"
% In English, "I beseech you, my brothers, _remain faithful to the earth_ and
% believe not those who speak of supernatural hopes. Poisonmongers are they,
% whether they know it or not.

Quote:
In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to
be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
Author: H.L. Mencken
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
If language is not correct, then what is said is not
what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant,
then what must be done remains undone; if this
remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate;
if justice goes astray, the people will stand about
in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no
arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
Author: Confucius
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
An honest god's the noblest work of man.
Author: Samuel Butler
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.  But the
opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Author: Niels Bohr
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
From hence, ye beauties, undeceived
Know one false step is ne'er retrieved
And be with caution bold.
Not all that tempts your wandering eyes
And heedless hearts is lawful prize,
Not all that glisters gold.
Author: Tomas Gray
Ref: "Elegy To A Favourite Cat Drowned In A Bowl Of Goldfishes"
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden
wants for nothing.
Author: Cicero
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Nobody loves me but my mother,
And she could be jivin' too.
Author: B. B. King
Keywords: incomplete, blues, jazz

Quote:
I think there are innumerable gods.  What we here on earth call God is a 
little tribal God who has made an awful mess.  Certainly forces operating 
trough human conciousness control events.
Author: William S. Buroughs
Ref: Paris Review, Fall 1965
Keywords: exact

Quote:
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
Author: Virginia Woolf
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Author: Nietzsche
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable.
They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority,
soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.
Author: H.L. Mencken
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
If they laid all the coeds from Yale end to end...I wouldn't be
surprised.
Author: Dorothy Parker
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
"I really can't come to your party Mrs. Parker, I can't bear fools."

"That's strange; your mother could."
Author: Dorothy Parker
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Trapped, like a trap in a trap.
Author: Dorothy Parker
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Famous actress bragging about her husband:
"Look at him, isn't he beautiful I have kept him for seven years now"

Dorothy Parker:
"Don't Worry--he'll come back in style"  
Author: Dorothy Parker
Keywords: incomplete
%     She was a writer from the 20's through the 50's.  One of the
% founders of New Yorker; Drama critic, short story, verse and
% screenplay writer.  Known for her cutting wit, and being especially
% tough as a book and drama reviewer.  She wrote reviews under the name
% "Constant Reader" in the New Yorker in the aforementioned years.  Died in
% 1967.

Quote:
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The
inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
Author: Churchill
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
You won't learn much about capitalism at a university.  How could you?
Capitalism is a matter of risks and rewards, and a tenured professor doesn't
have much to do with either.
Author: Pournelle.
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:	
The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians,
especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within
those groups.
Author: Clark Coleman
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to
anger.
Author: Tolkien
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
May you never know hunger
May you love with a full heart
The light burn in your eyes

May the fire be your friend
And the sea rock you gently
May the moon light your way
Till the wind sets you free
Author: Shriekback
Ref: "Cradle Song"
Keywords: incomplete, music, blessing

Quote:
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is
one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would
devour the other little ones.
Author: Victor Hugo
Ref: "Les Miserables", the book
% This is in the description of the Javert.

Quote:
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Author: Mark Twain
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth.
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Ref: one of the Sherlock Holmes stories
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you
are an exceptionally good liar.
Author: Jerome K. Jerome
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to
know how to lie well.
Author: Samuel Butler
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Author: Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind,
Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
Author: Albert Einstein.
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
Author: William Wordsworth
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication.
Ref: "A Canticle for Leibowitz"
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly
good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
Author: Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Keywords: incomplete

Quote:
All Bibles are man-made.
Author: Thomas Edison
Keywords: incomplete