Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive.
Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Still more labyrinthine buds the rose.
Elizabeth Barret Browning
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Taking a new step... is what people fear most.
Dostoyevski
Television is bubble-gum for the eyes
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
Television is bubble-gum for the mind
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
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
Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
Anonymous
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Thank God, I have done my duty.
Horatio, Viscount Nelson
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
George Santayana (1863-1952)
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
The aeroplane will never fly.
Lord Haldane , Minister of War, Britain, 1907, four years after Kitty Hawk
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
David Henry Thoreau (1817-1862)
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Joe Paterno
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
Elizabeth Barret Browning
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
Othal Brand , member of a Texas pesticide review board, on chlordane
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Anonymous
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
Josh Billings
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
Guy Davenport
Son, where did you go to school? If I were you, I'd write them and get my fucking money back.
Dimitri "Jimmie" Viner , in discussions with his flight test engineers
Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.
Sophia Loren
Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.
Samuel Goldwyn
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields
Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
Jack Lemmon
Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.
Joseph Fischer
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Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
Charles Pierce
Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer.
Swami X
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... the other eight are unimportant.
Henry Miller
She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
Charles Lamb
She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.
Gypsy Rose Lee
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
Seneca (3 B.C. - 65 A.D.)
Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon
Simplicity is the natural result of profound thought.
Anonymous
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Anonymous
Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barret Browning
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.
Aldous Huxley
Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper.
Anonymous history student
So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinit
Emile Wiechert
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
William Shakespeare - Macbeth
So little done, so much to do.
Cecil Rhodes
Sober, steadfast, and demure.
John Milton
Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say "Why not?"
Robert F. Kennedy
Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.
Peter McArthur
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon R. Dickson
Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
H. W. Longfellow
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Sigmund Freud
Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
Augusto Pinochet
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
Arthur C. Clarke