| 00/12/31: |
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. - Edmund Burke |
| 00/12/30: |
Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.] - Pope Boniface VIII, Decretals (bk. V, 12, 43), taken from the Canon Law |
| 00/12/29: |
The freeman casting, with unpurchased hand, The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., A Metrical Essay (l. 83) |
| 00/12/28: |
We shall escape the uphill by never turning back. - Christina G. Rossetti, Amor Mundi |
| 00/12/27: |
Now I know what love is. [Lat., Nunc scio quit sit amor.] - Virgil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil) |
| 00/12/26: |
The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (bk. III, l. 155) |
| 00/12/25: |
At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. - Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (ch. XII) |
| 00/12/24: |
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. - Sir James Matthew Barrie |
| 00/12/23: |
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. - Rich Kulawiec |
| 00/12/22: |
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust. - Steven Grover Cleveland, Inaugural Address |
| 00/12/21: |
Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent. - Horace (Horatio) Smith, Tin Trumpet (vol. I, p. 273) |
| 00/12/20: |
Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. - Samuel Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes (l. 95) |
| 00/12/19: |
I court not the votes of the fickle mob. [Lat., Non ego ventosae plebis suffragia venor.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 19, 37) |
| 00/12/18: |
As long as I count the votes what are you going to do about it? - William March Tweed, The Ballot |
| 00/12/17: |
Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote. - Daniel Webster, Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson |
| 00/12/16: |
I always voted at my party's call, And I never thought of thinking of myself at all. - William S. Gilbert, H.M.S. Pinafore |
| 00/12/15: |
The great questions of the day are not decided by speeches and majority votes, but by blood and iron. - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck, Declaration to the Prussian House of Delegates |
| 00/12/14: |
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader. - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus) |
| 00/12/13: |
Home is home, as the Devil said when he found himself in the Court of Session. - Proverb |
| 00/12/12: |
I wish they would only take me as I am. - Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh |
| 00/12/11: |
The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person. - Vi Putnam |
| 00/12/10: |
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. - Socrates |
| 00/12/09: |
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. - Gilbert K. Chesterton |
| 00/12/08: |
A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits. - Richard Milhous Nixon |
| 00/12/07: |
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. - Henry Louis Mencken |
| 00/12/06: |
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn? - Lord Byron, The Age of Bronze |
| 00/12/05: |
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all. - Bernard Levin |
| 00/12/04: |
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. - Alan Saporta |
| 00/12/03: |
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet |
| 00/12/02: |
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. - George Jean Nathan |
| 00/12/01: |
Truth is not determined by majority vote. - Doug Gwyn |
| 00/11/30: |
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 00/11/29: |
Do not fold, spindle or mutilate. - Popular 20th Century Saying |
| 00/11/28: |
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. - Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 00/11/27: |
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 00/11/26: |
Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable. - Shimon Peres |
| 00/11/25: |
You won the elections, but I won the count. - Anastasio Somoza |
| 00/11/24: |
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| 00/11/23: |
Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men. - John Churton Collins |
| 00/11/22: |
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| 00/11/21: |
My toast would be, may our country always be successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right. - John Quincy Adams |
| 00/11/20: |
A government of laws, and not of men. - John Adams |
| 00/11/19: |
One man shall have one vote. - John Cartwright |
| 00/11/18: |
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams |
| 00/11/17: |
In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant. - Samuel Johnson |
| 00/11/16: |
A week is a long time in politics. - Harold Wilson |
| 00/11/15: |
There are no true friends in politics. - Alan Clark |
| 00/11/14: |
Power ought to serve as a check to power. - Charles de Montesquieu |
| 00/11/13: |
Political necessities sometimes turn out to be political mistakes. - George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan |
| 00/11/12: |
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion. - Lord Edward Coke |
| 00/11/11: |
No victor believes in chance. - Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
| 00/11/10: |
In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli |
| 00/11/09: |
Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan. - Count Galeazzo Ciano |
| 00/11/08: |
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do. - R.G. Collingworth |
| 00/11/07: |
I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell. - Vincent van Gogh |
| 00/11/06: |
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. - Earl Warren, in the "New York Times" |
| 00/11/05: |
The good of the people is the chief law. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) |
| 00/11/04: |
Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms. - Penelope Lively |
| 00/11/03: |
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. - Doug Larson |
| 00/11/02: |
A library is thought in cold storage. - Lord Samuel |
| 00/11/01: |
I shall have more to say when I am dead. - Edwin Arlington Robinson |
| 00/10/31: |
My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front and watch me. - John Barrymore |
| 00/10/30: |
I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better. - Sophie Tucker |
| 00/10/29: |
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. - A.J. Liebling |
| 00/10/28: |
First things first, second things never. - Shirley Conran |
| 00/10/27: |
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths. - Edith Summerskill, in a speech |
| 00/10/26: |
Painting is silent poetry, poetry is eloquent painting. - Simonides of Ceos |
| 00/10/25: |
If you can actually count your money, then you are not really a rich man. - J. Paul Getty |
| 00/10/24: |
And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own. - Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus) |
| 00/10/23: |
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. - Christopher Darlington Morley |
| 00/10/22: |
There is no hope without fear, and no fear without hope. - Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza, Ethics (pt. 2, para. 178) |
| 00/10/21: |
Liars ought to have good memories. - Algernon Sidney |
| 00/10/20: |
Everything flows and nothing stays. - Heraclitus |
| 00/10/19: |
Criticism is a life without risk. - John Lahr |
| 00/10/18: |
The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. - Erica Jong |
| 00/10/17: |
Guidelines for bureaucrats: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble. - James H. Boren |
| 00/10/16: |
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - George Washington, Moral Maxims--Virtue and Vice--The Trial of Virtue |
| 00/10/15: |
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought. - Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi |
| 00/10/14: |
Words are but pictures of our thoughts. - John Dryden |
| 00/10/13: |
There are no small steps in great affairs. - Cardinal de Retz |
| 00/10/12: |
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. - James Thurber |
| 00/10/11: |
Finality is not the language of politics. - Benjamin Disraeli |
| 00/10/10: |
Liberty is the right to do whatever the law permits. - Charles de Montesquieu |
| 00/10/09: |
In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue. - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) |
| 00/10/08: |
The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. - Lenny Bruce |
| 00/10/07: |
History is past politics, and politics is present history. - E.A. Freeman |
| 00/10/06: |
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. - George Bernard Shaw |
| 00/10/05: |
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai E. Stevenson |
| 00/10/04: |
Management that wants to change an institution must first show it loves that institution. - John Tusa |
| 00/10/03: |
Prince I am not, yet I am nobly born. - Thomas Dekker |
| 00/10/02: |
I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final. - Judge Mills Lane |
| 00/10/01: |
To govern is to choose. - Duc de Levis |
| 00/09/30: |
I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. - John Muir |
| 00/09/29: |
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. - Ayn Rand |
| 00/09/28: |
Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence. - Brooks Stevens |
| 00/09/27: |
Drawing is the true test of art. - J.A.D. Ingres |
| 00/09/26: |
Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit. - Dianne Feinstein |
| 00/09/25: |
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. - Adlai E. Stevenson |
| 00/09/24: |
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. - Theodore Hesburgh |
| 00/09/23: |
If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it. - Albert Einstein |
| 00/09/22: |
Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. - John Muir |
| 00/09/21: |
Going to the mountains is going home. - John Muir |
| 00/09/20: |
Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines? - John Muir |
| 00/09/19: |
None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild. - John Muir |
| 00/09/18: |
The past, at least, is secure. - Daniel Webster |
| 00/09/17: |
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) |
| 00/09/16: |
Common sense is not so common. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) |
| 00/09/15: |
I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. - Dr. Seuss (pseudonym of Theodore Seuss Geisel), The Lorax |
| 00/09/14: |
I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found. - John Muir |
| 00/09/13: |
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. - John Muir |
| 00/09/12: |
All art is but imitation of nature. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) |
| 00/09/11: |
Where have all the flowers gone? - Pete Seeger |
| 00/09/10: |
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. - George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four |
| 00/09/09: |
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. - George Orwell, Shooting an Elephant |
| 00/09/08: |
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. - Franklin Pierce Adams |
| 00/09/07: |
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. - Tom Stoppard |
| 00/09/06: |
If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it. - Ken Livingstone |
| 00/09/05: |
Peace is indivisible. - Maxim Litvinov |
| 00/09/04: |
Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a managed or well-conducted one. - Lord Radcliffe |
| 00/09/03: |
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. - George Orwell, Animal Farm |
| 00/09/02: |
The bigger they are, the further they have to fall. - Robert Fitzsimmons |
| 00/09/01: |
Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) |
| 00/08/31: |
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. - Aristotle |
| 00/08/30: |
Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history. - Aristotle |
| 00/08/29: |
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end. - Aristotle |
| 00/08/28: |
No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other. - Aristotle |
| 00/08/27: |
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly. - Aristotle |
| 00/08/26: |
Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle |
| 00/08/25: |
We make war that we may live in peace. - Aristotle |
| 00/08/24: |
Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good. - Sophocles |
| 00/08/23: |
Nought may endure but Mutability. - Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| 00/08/22: |
What is Love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves. - Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| 00/08/21: |
He gave man speech, and speech created thought, which is the measure of the universe. - Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| 00/08/20: |
His fine wit makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it. - Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| 00/08/19: |
I love all waste and solitary places. - Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| 00/08/18: |
The world is weary of the past, oh, might it die or rest at last. - Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| 00/08/17: |
Death will come when thou art dead, soon, too soon. - Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| 00/08/16: |
Even turkeys can fly in a stiff wind. - Unknown |
| 00/08/15: |
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. - Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| 00/08/14: |
The difficult is done at once, the impossible takes a little longer. - Proverb |
| 00/08/13: |
I am tied to the stake, and I must stand the course. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (Gloucester at III, vii) |
| 00/08/12: |
The worst is not so long as we can say 'This is the worst.' - William Shakespeare, King Lear (Edgar at IV, i) |
| 00/08/11: |
He is well paid that is well satisfied. - William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice (Portia at IV, i) |
| 00/08/10: |
Plain and not honest is too harsh a style. - William Shakespeare, Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Queen Elizabeth at IV, iv) |
| 00/08/09: |
An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. - William Shakespeare, Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Queen Elizabeth at IV, iv) |
| 00/08/08: |
Affection is a coal that must be cooled; Else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire. - William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (l. 387) |
| 00/08/07: |
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Olivia at III, i) |
| 00/08/06: |
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King at III, i) |
| 00/08/05: |
Greatness knows itself. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Hotspur at IV, iii) |
| 00/08/04: |
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness. - William Shakespeare, Tempest (Miranda at I, ii) |
| 00/08/03: |
I am a feather for each wind that blows. - William Shakespeare, Winter's Tale (Leontes at II, iii) |
| 00/08/02: |
Leave no rubs nor botches in the work. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at III, i) |
| 00/08/01: |
Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (King at III, iii) |
| 00/07/31: |
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Friar Laurence at III, iii) |
| 00/07/30: |
What is the city but the people? - William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (Sicinius at III, i) |
| 00/07/29: |
The oldest hath borne most; we that are young shall never see so much, nor live so long. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (Edgar at V, iii) |
| 00/07/28: |
False face must hide what the false heart doth know. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at I, vii) |
| 00/07/27: |
Tempt not a desperate man. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at V, iii) |
| 00/07/26: |
Brevity is the sole of wit. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at II, ii) |
| 00/07/25: |
Punctuality is the sole of business. - Proverb |
| 00/07/24: |
Presume not that I am the thing I was. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King at V, v) |
| 00/07/23: |
Leo's are the best. - John C. Shepard |
| 00/07/22: |
Patch grief with proverbs. - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Leonato at V, i) |
| 00/07/21: |
They say the tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony. - William Shakespeare, Tragedy of King Richard the Second (Gaunt at II, i) |
| 00/07/20: |
I have had my labor for my travail. - William Shakespeare, History of Troilus and Cressida (Pandarus at I, i) |
| 00/07/19: |
Double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (First Witch at IV, i) |
| 00/07/18: |
A plague on both your houses! - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio at III, i) |
| 00/07/17: |
I have more care to stay than will to go. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at III, v) |
| 00/07/16: |
We were not born to sue, but to command. - William Shakespeare, Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King at I, i) |
| 00/07/15: |
More can I bear than you dare execute. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Suffolk at IV, i) |
| 00/07/14: |
And where the offense is, let the great axe fall. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (King at IV, v) |
| 00/07/13: |
I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at V, ii) |
| 00/07/12: |
It takes two to make a bargain. - Proverb |
| 00/07/11: |
There is measure in all things. - Proverb |
| 00/07/10: |
Who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock. - Proverb |
| 00/07/09: |
The unexpected always happens. - Proverb |
| 00/07/08: |
Patience is a virtue. - Proverb |
| 00/07/07: |
Never look a gift horse in the mouth. - St. Jerome |
| 00/07/06: |
You buy land, you buy stones; you buy meat, you buy bones. - Proverb |
| 00/07/05: |
Everything has an end. - Proverb |
| 00/07/04: |
A fair exchange is no robbery. - Proverb |
| 00/07/03: |
Do not meet troubles half-way. - Proverb |
| 00/07/02: |
Do as you would be done by. - Proverb |
| 00/07/01: |
Dogs bark, but the caravan goes on. - Proverb |
| 00/06/30: |
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. - Proverb |
| 00/06/29: |
If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus. - Proverb |
| 00/06/28: |
Live and learn. - Proverb |
| 00/06/27: |
Let sleeping dogs lie. - Proverb |
| 00/06/26: |
Little strokes fell great oaks. - Proverb |
| 00/06/25: |
Stand by your man. - Tammy Wynette |
| 00/06/24: |
The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement (ch. 9) |
| 00/06/23: |
A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. - George Moore |
| 00/06/22: |
I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree. . . . . Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. - Joyce Kilmer |
| 00/06/21: |
The power to tax involves the power to destroy. - John Marshall, in the case "McCulloch v. Maryland" |
| 00/06/20: |
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. - Amelia E. Barr |
| 00/06/19: |
It ain't over till it's over. - Yogi Berra |
| 00/06/18: |
God is in the details. - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
| 00/06/17: |
Form follows function. - Louis Henri Sullivan |
| 00/06/16: |
There's small choice in rotten apples. - William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew (Hortensio at I, i) |
| 00/06/15: |
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. - Georges Duhamel |
| 00/06/14: |
A man is either free or he is not. - Imamu Amiri Baraka |
| 00/06/13: |
Man was formed for society. - Sir William Blackstone |
| 00/06/12: |
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. - William Butler Yeats |
| 00/06/11: |
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers |
| 00/06/10: |
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. - Nelson Mandela |
| 00/06/09: |
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln |
| 00/06/08: |
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone. - Henry David Thoreau |
| 00/06/07: |
One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines. - Emile Zola |
| 00/06/06: |
Law is a bottomless pit. - John Arbuthnot |
| 00/06/05: |
Good fences make good neighbours. - Robert Lee Frost, quoting a proverb |
| 00/06/04: |
Money couldn't buy friends but you got a better class of enemy. - Spike Milligan |
| 00/06/03: |
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. - Robert Lee Frost |
| 00/06/02: |
Each man is the smith of his own fortune. - Appius Claudius Caecus |
| 00/06/01: |
We live and learn, but not the wiser grow. - John Pomfret |
| 00/05/31: |
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. - Lord Byron |
| 00/05/30: |
Authority is never without hate. - Euripides |
| 00/05/29: |
To teach is to learn twice. - Joseph Joubert |
| 00/05/28: |
One must be poor to know the luxury of living. - George Eliot |
| 00/05/27: |
Plenty of people despise money, but few know how to give it away. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld |
| 00/05/26: |
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door. - Baltasar Gracian |
| 00/05/25: |
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. - John Churton Collins |
| 00/05/24: |
There is no need to show your ability before everyone. - Baltasar Gracian |
| 00/05/23: |
All rising to great place is by a winding stair. - Francis Bacon |
| 00/05/22: |
The usual trade and commerce is cheating all around by consent. - Thomas Fuller |
| 00/05/21: |
Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him. - Benjamin Disraeli |
| 00/05/20: |
The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| 00/05/19: |
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. - Paul Valery |
| 00/05/18: |
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when a man has only one idea. - Emile-Auguste Chartier Alain |
| 00/05/17: |
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
| 00/05/16: |
Power corrupts. - Proverb |
| 00/05/15: |
One swallow does not make a summer. - Proverb |
| 00/05/14: |
There are no birds in last year's nest. - Proverb |
| 00/05/13: |
There is no little enemy. - Proverb |
| 00/05/12: |
One good turn deserves another. - Proverb |
| 00/05/11: |
Thought is free. - Proverb |
| 00/05/10: |
What is new cannot be true. - Proverb |
| 00/05/09: |
Death pays all debts. - Proverb |
| 00/05/08: |
There is honour among thieves. - Proverb |
| 00/05/07: |
When thieves fall out, honest men come by their own. - Proverb |
| 00/05/06: |
You cannot get blood from a stone. - Proverb |
| 00/05/05: |
You can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy. - Proverb |
| 00/05/04: |
Business before pleasure. - Proverb |
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The cat would eat fish, but would not wet her feet. - Proverb |
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Do as I say, not as I do. - Proverb |
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Forewarned is forearmed. - Proverb |
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Hard cases make bad law. - Legal Maxim |
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For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism (pt. III, l. 66) |
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Half the truth is often a whole lie. - Proverb |
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All's well that ends well. - Proverb |
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Actions speak louder than words. - Proverb |
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Ask no questions and hear no lies. - Proverb |
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A barking dog never bites. - Proverb |
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All good things must come to an end. - Proverb |
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The lady doth protest too much, methinks. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Queen at III, ii) |
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I must be cruel only to be kind. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, iv) |
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Lord, what fools these mortals be! - William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream (Puck at III, ii) |
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We burn daylight. - William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor (Mrs. Ford at II, i) |
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O, how full of briers is this working-day world! - William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Rosalind at I, iii) |
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We have seen better days. - William Shakespeare, Life of Timon of Athens (Steward at IV, ii) |
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What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at II, ii) |
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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare, As You Like It (Touchstone at V, i) |
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The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Butcher at IV, ii) |
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What does not destroy me, makes me strong. - Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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A fool and his money are soon parted. - Proverb |
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There is no accounting for tastes. - Proverb |
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Think first and speak afterwards. - Proverb |
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We must eat a peck of dirt before we die. - Proverb |
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What's done cannot be undone. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Lady Macbeth at V, i) |
| 00/04/07: |
They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind. - Proverb |
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You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. - Proverb |
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Talk is cheap. - Proverb |
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There is an exception to every rule. - Proverb |
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Truth lies at the bottom of a well. - Proverb |
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What goes up must come down. - Proverb |
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When the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. - Proverb |
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Truth will out. - Proverb |
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Time is money. - Proverb |
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Well begun is half done. - Proverb |
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Procrastination is the thief of time. - Proverb |
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Nothing is certain but the unforeseen. - Proverb |
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A word to the wise is enough. - Proverb |
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You cannot lose what you never had. - Proverb |
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What must be, must be. - Proverb |
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When one door shuts, another opens. - Proverb |
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The worth of a thing is what it will bring. - Proverb |
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You pays your money and you takes your choice. - Proverb |
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The fish always stinks from the head downwards. - Proverb |
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Ask a silly question and you get a silly answer. - Proverb |
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If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas. - Proverb |
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Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me. - St. Patrick |
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Every man has his price. - Sir Robert Walpole, in a speech |
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Beware the ides of March. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Soothsayer at I, ii) |
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Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves. - William Lowndes |
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If possible, honestly, if not, somehow, make money. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) |
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The wheel is come full circle. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (Edmund at V, iii) |
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A triangle is a square that didn't make it. - Unknown |
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A line is length without breadth. - Euclid |
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The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss. - John Nance Garner |
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All I know is what I read in the papers. - Will Rogers |
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A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! - William Shakespeare, Tragedy of King Richard the Third (Richard at V, iv) |
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May not an ass know when the cart draws the horse? - William Shakespeare, King Lear (Fool at I, iv) |
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What's past is prologue. - William Shakespeare, Tempest (Antonio at II, i) |
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When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (Lear at IV, vi) |
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It is a wise father that know his own child. - William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice (Launcelot at II, ii) |
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Hold, or cut bowstrings. - William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream (Bottom at I, ii) |
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To be, or not to be--that is the question. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, i) |
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Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing. - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at III, iii) |
| 00/02/28: |
Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at I, ii) |
| 00/02/27: |
Nothing will come of nothing. Speak again. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (Lear at I, i) |
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Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii) |
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This above all, to thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii) |
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Neither a borrower nor a lender be, For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulleth edge of husbandry. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Polonius at I, iii) |
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All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told; Many a man his life hath sold; But my outside to behold. - William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice (Morocco at II, vii), requoting a proverb |
| 00/02/22: |
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Marcellus at I, iv) |
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Trust exists; only lies are invented. - Georges Braque |
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What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? - Karl Kraus |
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred well-placed business men decide to do it. - Andrew Young |
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Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. - Emile Coue |
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Technology . . . the knack of so arranging the world that we need not experience it. - Max Frisch |
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Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein |
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It's better to burn out, Than to fade away. - Neil Young |
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Dream the impossible dream. - Joe Darion, part of a song |
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To play billiards well is a sign of ill-spent youth. - Charles Roupell |
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The biologist passes, the frog remains. - Jean Rostand |
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The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. - Desmond Morris |
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See, the conquering hero comes! Sound the trumpets, beat the drums! - Thomas Morell |
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Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. - Stanislav Andreski |
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The rebel angels fly in ranks. - Henri Petit |
| 00/02/07: |
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. - Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. - Sir Winston Churchill |
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. - H. Jackson Browne |
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. - Orison Swett Marden (1) |
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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think. - Ayn Rand |
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Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) |
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A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. - Henry David Thoreau |
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One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. |
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Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! - David G. Farragut |
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Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. - Eugene Ionesco |
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. - Ernest Hemingway |
| 00/01/27: |
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - Henry Louis Mencken |
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. - Josh Billings |
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If you're strong enough, there are no precedents. - F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| 00/01/24: |
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal |
| 00/01/23: |
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? - Thomas H. Huxley |
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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities. - John Lothrop Motley |
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France |
| 00/01/20: |
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? - J. Paul Getty |
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Not all who wander are lost. - J.R.R. Tolkien |
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. - H. Jackson Browne |
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Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet which still clings fast to the heel that crushed it. - George Roemisch |
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. - Proverb |
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We all of us need assistance. Those who sustain others themselves want to be sustained. - Maurice Hulst |
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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. - Epicurus |
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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them. - Benjamin Jowett |
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The road of good intentions is paved with Hell. - Spencer Ante |
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There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't. - Anonymous |
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May you live every day of your life. - Jonathan Swift |
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty |
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Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. - Thomas Alva Edison |
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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. - Jonathan Kozol |
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Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes. - Anonymous |
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If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes. - Unknown |
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We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know. - Hugo von Hofmannsthal |
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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. - William Arthur Ward |
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You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin |
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die. - Bill Watterson, from "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip |
