Motivational and Entertaining Quotes

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
W. C. Fields

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
W. C. Fields

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
W. C. Fields

Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.
W. C. Fields

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
W. C. Fields

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
W. C. Fields

Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
W. C. Fields

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
W. C. Fields

Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
W. C. Fields

Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.
W. C. Fields

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
W. C. Fields

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. Fields

Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
W. C. Fields

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
W. C. Fields

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
W. C. Fields

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
W. C. Fields

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

I drink therefore I am.
W. C. Fields

I like children - fried.
W. C. Fields

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.
W. C. Fields

I must have a drink of breakfast.
W. C. Fields

I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.
W. C. Fields

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
W. C. Fields

I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.
W. C. Fields

I never met a kid I liked.
W. C. Fields

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.
W. C. Fields

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.
W. C. Fields

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
W. C. Fields

I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
W. C. Fields

If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields

If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
W. C. Fields

If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
W. C. Fields

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
W. C. Fields

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
W. C. Fields

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
W. C. Fields

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
W. C. Fields

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.
W. C. Fields

Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
W. C. Fields

Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
W. C. Fields

Never give a sucker an even break.
W. C. Fields

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
W. C. Fields

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
W. C. Fields

Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.
W. C. Fields

On the whole, I'd rather be in Philidelphia.
W. C. Fields

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
W. C. Fields

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
W. C. Fields

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
W. C. Fields

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
W. C. Fields

Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
W. C. Fields

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.
W. C. Fields

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
W. C. Fields

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.
W. C. Fields

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
W. C. Fields

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
W. C. Fields

There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.
W. C. Fields

There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
W. C. Fields

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
W. C. Fields

Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.
W. C. Fields

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
W. C. Fields

A fault is fostered by concealment.
Virgil

Age carries all things away, even the mind.
Virgil

Age steals away all things, even the mind.
Virgil

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.
Virgil

All things deteriorate in time.
Virgil

As the twig is bent the tree inclines.
Virgil

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.
Virgil

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
Virgil

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
Virgil

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Virgil

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
Virgil

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.
Virgil

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Virgil

Each of us bears his own Hell.
Virgil

Endure the present, and watch for better things.
Virgil

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
Virgil

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
Virgil

Every man makes a god of his own desire.
Virgil

Every sound alarms.
Virgil

Fate will find a way.
Virgil

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
Virgil

Fortune favours the bold.
Virgil

Fortune sides with him who dares.
Virgil

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
Virgil

From one learn all.
Virgil

Fury itself supplies arms.
Virgil

Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.
Virgil

Happy is he who can trace effects to their causes.
Virgil

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.
Virgil

He enters the port with a full sail.
Virgil

He like a rock in the sea unshaken stands his ground.
Virgil

Hug the shore; let others try the deep.
Virgil

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.
Virgil

I shudder when relating it.
Virgil

If one swain scorns you, you will soon find another.
Virgil

If ye despise the human race, and mortal arms, yet remember that there is a God who is mindful of right and wrong.
Virgil

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?
Virgil

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
Virgil

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.
Virgil

Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
Virgil

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is same for all.
Virgil

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.
Virgil

Love conquers all.
Virgil

Mind moves matter.
Virgil

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
Virgil

None but himself can be his parallel.
Virgil

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
Virgil

One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.
Virgil

Passion and strife bow down the mind.
Virgil

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember.
Virgil

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.
Virgil

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.
Virgil

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.
Virgil

The medicine increases the disease.
Virgil

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.
Virgil

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Virgil

Their rage supplies them with weapons.
Virgil

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.
Virgil

There's a snake lurking in the grass.
Virgil

They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil

They can conquer who believe they can.
Virgil

They succeed, because they think they can.
Virgil

Time flies never to be recalled.
Virgil

Time is flying never to return.
Virgil

Time passes irrevocably.
Virgil

To have died once is enough.
Virgil

Trust not to much to appearances.
Virgil

Trust one who has tried.
Virgil

Veiling truth in mystery.
Virgil

Want of pluck shows want of blood.
Virgil

We can't all do everything.
Virgil

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
Virgil

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
Virgil

Wherever the fates lead us let us follow.
Virgil

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Virgil

Who can blind lover's eyes?
Virgil

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
Virgil

Your descendants shall gather your fruits.
Virgil

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.
Dick Armey

I don't believe America will justifiably make an unprovoked attack on another nation. It would not be consistent with what we have been as a nation or what we should be as a nation.
Dick Armey

My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him.
Dick Armey

Our current tax system is broken.
Dick Armey

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
Dick Armey

Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
Dick Armey

Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.
Dick Armey

This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart.
Dick Armey

Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
Dick Armey

We're going to have a tax cut. Today's American family is overtaxed at all levels.
Dick Armey

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.
Dick Armey

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.
Eddie Izzard

I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
Eddie Izzard

I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.
Eddie Izzard

I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
Eddie Izzard

I'm a one-man idiot.
Eddie Izzard

If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
Eddie Izzard

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.
Eddie Izzard

Never put a sock in a toaster.
Eddie Izzard

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!
Eddie Izzard

They tend to come out a colour called 'Pants left in wash'
Eddie Izzard

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.
Paula Poundstone

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.
Paula Poundstone

I was born in Alabama, but I only lived there for a month before I'd done everything there was to do.
Paula Poundstone

My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'
Paula Poundstone

The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.
Paula Poundstone

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
Paula Poundstone

There ain't no reason to worry, 'cause nothing happens the way you
expect. Your best bet is to pack next to nothin', cram a few wrinkled
dollars in your pocket and hope for the best...but expect the worst.
That's it, the rest is all balls. You can make anything work, and when
you're "out there" you don't have any choice.
George the painter

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E. B. White

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
E. B. White

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
E. B. White

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
E. B. White

Be obscure clearly.
E. B. White

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. White

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
E. B. White

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

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 can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
E. B. White

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. White

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
E. B. White

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
E. B. White

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. White

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E. B. White

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself-a lad of about 19.
E. B. White

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
E. B. White

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. White

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
E. B. White

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
E. B. White

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
E. B. White

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
E. B. White

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
E. B. White

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
E. B. White

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
E. B. White

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
E. B. White

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
E. B. White

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
E. B. White

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E. B. White

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
E. B. White

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. White

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Frederick Douglass

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Frederick Douglass

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick Douglass

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
Frederick Douglass

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
Frederick Douglass

At a time like this, scorching iron, not convincing argument, is needed.
Frederick Douglass

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Frederick Douglass

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
Frederick Douglass

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
Frederick Douglass

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
Frederick Douglass

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
Frederick Douglass

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
Frederick Douglass

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
Frederick Douglass

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
Frederick Douglass

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Frederick Douglass

One and God make a majority.
Frederick Douglass

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Frederick Douglass

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass

Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.
Frederick Douglass

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
Frederick Douglass

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
Frederick Douglass

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Frederick Douglass

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
Frederick Douglass

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
Frederick Douglass

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
Frederick Douglass

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Frederick Douglass

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Frederick Douglass

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Frederick Douglass

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
Frederick Douglass

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
Frederick Douglass

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Frederick Douglass

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
Natalie Wood

Almost every girl falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it's part of growing up.
Natalie Wood

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.
Natalie Wood

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.
Natalie Wood

From ages 10 to 12 or so, I barely remember anything.
Natalie Wood

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
Natalie Wood

I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
Natalie Wood

I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.
Natalie Wood

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.
Natalie Wood

I never saw film stars at home. We had no maid, no cook, no swimming pool.
Natalie Wood

I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
Natalie Wood

I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.
Natalie Wood

I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
Natalie Wood

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
Natalie Wood

I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.
Natalie Wood

I'm not going to those parties where they put out the line of cocaine and stuff.
Natalie Wood

I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
Natalie Wood

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
Natalie Wood

If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
Natalie Wood

My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
Natalie Wood

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.
Natalie Wood

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
Natalie Wood

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
Natalie Wood

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
Natalie Wood

The constant attention is what is so difficult.
Natalie Wood

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.
Natalie Wood

The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
Natalie Wood

There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
Natalie Wood

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
Natalie Wood

Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.
Natalie Wood

We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
Natalie Wood

We were descended from royalty.
Natalie Wood

When I get married it will be for keeps.
Natalie Wood

Certainties are arrived at only on foot.
Antonio Porchia

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
Antonio Porchia

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
Antonio Porchia

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
Antonio Porchia

He who does not know how to create should not know.
Antonio Porchia

He who goes step by step always finds himself level with a step.
Antonio Porchia

He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.
Antonio Porchia

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
Antonio Porchia

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.
Antonio Porchia

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.
Antonio Porchia

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.
Antonio Porchia

If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
Antonio Porchia

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
Antonio Porchia

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Antonio Porchia

My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
Antonio Porchia

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Antonio Porchia

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.
Antonio Porchia

That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
Antonio Porchia

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.
Antonio Porchia

The children whom nobody leads by the hand are the children who know they are children.
Antonio Porchia

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Antonio Porchia

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.
Antonio Porchia

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.
Antonio Porchia

What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
Antonio Porchia

What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.
Antonio Porchia

Whatever I take, I take too much or too little; I do not take the exact amount. The exact amount is no use to me.
Antonio Porchia

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.
Antonio Porchia

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Everett Dirksen

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.
Everett Dirksen

During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.
Everett Dirksen

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Everett Dirksen

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
Everett Dirksen

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
Everett Dirksen

The oil can is mightier than the sword.
Everett Dirksen

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Everett Dirksen

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that "thousands" has almost passed out of the dictionary.
Everett Dirksen

We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.
Everett Dirksen

When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.
Everett Dirksen

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.
Everett Dirksen

The fighting for booty
Stems from
A desire for reward.


ok so this is from the Art of War (Sun tzu), and can be taken at a literal level or you can delv deeper. Im reading this at the moment, once I finish I will read the commentary but each passage I read has a different meaning to what another person does.
Really insightfull book aswell. Maybe I will put others up tomorow

"The man who conquers other men is strong. The man who conquers himself is all powerful." - ancient Chinese proverb

A day may sink or save a realm.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Authority forgets a dying king.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Better not be at all than not be noble.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?
Alfred Lord Tennyson

God's finger touched him, and he slept.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

He makes no friends who never made a foe.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

I am a part of all that I have seen.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is the only gold.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

My strength has the strength of ten because my heart is pure.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

There's no glory like those who save their country.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Norman Vincent Peale

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Norman Vincent Peale

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.
Norman Vincent Peale

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

Change yourself and your work will seem different.
Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
Norman Vincent Peale

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Norman Vincent Peale

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Norman Vincent Peale

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Norman Vincent Peale

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
Norman Vincent Peale

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Norman Vincent Peale

If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
Norman Vincent Peale

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Norman Vincent Peale

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.
Norman Vincent Peale

Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Norman Vincent Peale

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Norman Vincent Peale

It's always too early to quit.
Norman Vincent Peale

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Norman Vincent Peale

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Norman Vincent Peale

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
Norman Vincent Peale

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Norman Vincent Peale

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Norman Vincent Peale

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
Norman Vincent Peale

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
Norman Vincent Peale

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Norman Vincent Peale

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Norman Vincent Peale

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Norman Vincent Peale

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Norman Vincent Peale

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Norman Vincent Peale

We tend to get what we expect.
Norman Vincent Peale

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
Norman Vincent Peale

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
Norman Vincent Peale

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
Norman Vincent Peale

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
Norman Vincent Peale

"I never wanted to know
Never wanted to see
I wasted my time till time wasted me
Never wanted to go
Always wanted to stay
Cause the person I am are the parts that I play
So I ploy and I plan
I hope and I scheme
To the lure of a night
Filled with unfinished dreams
And I'm holding on tight
To a world gone astray
As they charge me for years
I can no longer pay" - Jon Oliva from "When The Crowds Are Gone"

A man's breath tends to smell fresher if he can manage to keep his foot out of his mouth.
I came up with that one while I was out gaming on Wednesday.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.
Robert Benchley

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
Robert Benchley

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.
Robert Benchley

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
Robert Benchley

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.
Robert Benchley

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.
Robert Benchley

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.
Robert Benchley

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Robert Benchley

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
Robert Benchley

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
Robert Benchley

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony.
Robert Benchley

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.
Robert Benchley

For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
Robert Benchley

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
Robert Benchley

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
Robert Benchley

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
Robert Benchley

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
Robert Benchley

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
Robert Benchley

If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.
Robert Benchley

In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
Robert Benchley

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
Robert Benchley

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
Robert Benchley

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.
Robert Benchley

Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off.
Robert Benchley

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
Robert Benchley

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
Robert Benchley

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Robert Benchley

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Robert Benchley

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.
Robert Benchley

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
Robert Benchley

We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.
Robert Benchley

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.
Robert Benchley

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
Robert Benchley

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.
Robert Benchley

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
Emo Philips

Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist.
Emo Philips

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Emo Philips

England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.
Emo Philips

He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.
Emo Philips

How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.
Emo Philips

I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'
Emo Philips

I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, 'Get off me, you two!'
Emo Philips

I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.
Emo Philips

I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."
Emo Philips

I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.
Emo Philips

I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks.
Emo Philips

I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
Emo Philips

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.
Emo Philips

I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
Emo Philips

I was at a bar nursing a beer. My nipple was getting quite soggy.
Emo Philips

I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them.
Emo Philips

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.
Emo Philips

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Emo Philips

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.
Emo Philips

I was with this girl the other night and from the way she was responding to my skillful caresses, you would have sworn that she was conscious from the top of her head to the tag on her toes.
Emo Philips

I'm a great lover, I'll bet.
Emo Philips

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.
Emo Philips

My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.
Emo Philips

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
Emo Philips

My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.
Emo Philips

My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often.
Emo Philips

People always ask me, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi.
Emo Philips

Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.
Emo Philips

Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.
Emo Philips

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
Emo Philips

Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
Emo Philips

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
Emo Philips

Well, my brother says Hello. So, hooray for speech therapy.
Emo Philips

Whatever happened to the good ole days, when children worked in factories?
Emo Philips

When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas.
Emo Philips

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

Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
Emo Philips

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.
Emo Philips

You know what I hate? Indian givers... no, I take that back.
Emo Philips

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
Garry Shandling

But I really like hosting, I think it's a strength of mine. It allows me to improvise, and I love the spontaneity of that, and I think I'm funny behind the desk when interviewing someone.
Garry Shandling

Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
Garry Shandling

First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
Garry Shandling

Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.
Garry Shandling

I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.
Garry Shandling

I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.
Garry Shandling

I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.
Garry Shandling

I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.
Garry Shandling

I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.
Garry Shandling

I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
Garry Shandling

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
Garry Shandling

I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.
Garry Shandling

I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.
Garry Shandling

I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green.
Garry Shandling

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.
Garry Shandling

I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.
Garry shandling

I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.
Garry Shandling

I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
Garry Shandling

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
Garry Shandling

I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot of stuff. I don't know that I would put the puppets on when I was pitching a show. This was the head of the studio putting a puppet show on. And I'll tell you, he wasn't bad.
Garry Shandling

It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
Garry Shandling

My first appearance as a guest on The Tonight Show was in '81.
Garry shandling

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
Garry Shandling

The only way I would go back to hosting would be if it were something entirely new. It would prevent me from wanting to host a standard-fare kind of talk show.
Garry Shandling

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.
Garry Shandling

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.
Garry Shandling

You know it's funny that none of the regular late-night shows now use guest hosts the way Johnny did. No one talks about it much, but it's curious that they don't do it. They would each have to be asked the reason why they don't.
Garry Shandling

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
Saint Francis de Sales

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
Saint Francis de Sales

Be who you are and be that well.
Saint Francis de Sales

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
Saint Francis de Sales

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Saint Francis de Sales

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.
Saint Francis de Sales

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
Saint Francis de Sales

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
Saint Francis de Sales

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
Saint Francis de Sales

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
Saint Francis de Sales

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
Saint Francis de Sales

There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
Saint Francis de Sales

There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
Saint Francis de Sales

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved.
Saint Francis de Sales

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Saint Francis de Sales

We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his presence. Now God is present everywhere, and every person is His work.
Saint Francis de Sales

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis de Sales

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
Saint Francis de Sales

Cable penetrates 70 percent of American audiences now.
Tom Brokaw

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.
Tom Brokaw

Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.
Tom Brokaw

I think they are paying a lot more attention to news now, by the way, in part because of national-security issues. A lot of young people have friends or family in the military today.
Tom Brokaw

I'm not going to sit on the porch of the old anchorman's home with a drool cup.
Tom Brokaw

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
Tom Brokaw

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
Tom Brokaw

It's all storytelling, you know. That's what journalism is all about.
Tom Brokaw

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.
Tom Brokaw

Our obligation at the network is where do we fit into that and how can we best capitalize on that to make sure that our piece of that remains important to those young people.
Tom Brokaw

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.
Tom Brokaw

Peter will have a place in this brotherhood forever.
Tom Brokaw

Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.
Tom Brokaw

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
Tom Brokaw

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.
Tom Brokaw

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.
Tom Brokaw

What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.
Tom Brokaw

What I think is that Fox has done a very smart job of carving out their place.
Tom Brokaw

What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve.
Tom Brokaw

While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.
Tom Brokaw

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Tom Brokaw

A beautiful face is a mute recommendation.
Publilius Syrus

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
Publilius Syrus

A good reputation is more valuable than money.
Publilius Syrus

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.
Publilius Syrus

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
Publilius Syrus

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
Publilius Syrus

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
Publilius Syrus

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Publilius Syrus

Audacity augments courage; hesitation, fear.
Publilius Syrus

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
Publilius Syrus

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
Publilius Syrus

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
Publilius Syrus

Familiarity breeds contempt.
Publilius Syrus

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Publilius Syrus

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.
Publilius Syrus

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
Publilius Syrus

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
Publilius Syrus

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
Publilius Syrus

He who spares the bad injures the good.
Publilius Syrus

He whom many fear, has himself many to fear.
Publilius Syrus

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
Publilius Syrus

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
Publilius Syrus

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.
Publilius Syrus

It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
Publilius Syrus

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
Publilius Syrus

It is better to learn late than never.
Publilius Syrus

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
Publilius Syrus

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.
Publilius Syrus

It is not every question that deserves an answer.
Publilius Syrus

It is only the ignorant who despise education.
Publilius Syrus

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
Publilius Syrus

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Publilius Syrus

Never promise more than you can perform.
Publilius Syrus

No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Publilius Syrus

One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.
Publilius Syrus

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.
Publilius Syrus

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.
Publilius Syrus

Practice is the best of all instructors.
Publilius Syrus

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
Publilius Syrus

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
Publilius Syrus

Some remedies are worse than the disease.
Publilius Syrus

Speech is the mirror of the soul.
Publilius Syrus

Take care that no one hates you justly.
Publilius Syrus

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
Publilius Syrus

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
Publilius Syrus

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.
Publilius Syrus

The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
Publilius Syrus

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
Publilius Syrus

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.
Publilius Syrus

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
Publilius Syrus

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.
Publilius Syrus

The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
Publilius Syrus

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
Publilius Syrus

The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.
Publilius Syrus

There are some remedies worse than the disease.
Publilius Syrus

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.
Publilius Syrus

To do two things at once is to do neither.
Publilius Syrus

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.
Publilius Syrus

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
Publilius Syrus

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.
Publilius Syrus

We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
Publilius Syrus

We die as often as we lose a friend.
Publilius Syrus

What is left when honor is lost?
Publilius Syrus

When you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favor on all.
Publilius Syrus

Where there is unity there is always victory.
Publilius Syrus

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.
Publilius Syrus

You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
Publilius Syrus

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.
Publilius Syrus

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.
Publilius Syrus

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
Alanis Morissette

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.
Alanis Morissette

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.
Alanis Morissette

And ultimately the people who produce my records, they know that they're here to serve the purpose of me expressing who I am at this period of time and augmenting that or pulling it forward and I love that process.
Alanis Morissette

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.
Alanis Morissette

As long as I can say what it is that I need to say, then I'll fit whatever I'm trying to say around a melody.
Alanis Morissette

At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.
Alanis Morissette

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
Alanis Morissette

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.
Alanis Morissette

Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.
Alanis Morissette

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.
Alanis Morissette

I felt like I was making a record under the radar, and that is my favorite way to do anything.
Alanis Morissette

I guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.
Alanis Morissette

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.
Alanis Morissette

I love songs that are very autobiographical.
Alanis Morissette

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.
Alanis Morissette

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.
Alanis Morissette

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
Alanis Morissette

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
Alanis Morissette

I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.
Alanis Morissette

I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
Alanis Morissette

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.
Alanis Morissette

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.
Alanis Morissette

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.
Alanis Morissette

I'll keep evolving and put that into my songs.
Alanis Morissette

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.
Alanis Morissette

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.
Alanis Morissette

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.
Alanis Morissette

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.
Alanis Morissette

The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
Alanis Morissette

The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.
Alanis Morissette

They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.
Alanis Morissette

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
Alanis Morissette

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.
Alanis Morissette

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.
Alanis Morissette

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
Alanis Morissette

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
Alanis Morissette