Ted Hughes

“Over the whole land, Spring thunders down in brilliant silence.”
- Ted Hughes (1930 - )

Charles De Monstesquieu

"Constant idleness should be included in the tortures of hell, but it is, on the contrary, considered to be one of the joys of paradise."
- Charles De Monstesquieu

Joe Baca

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
- Joe Baca

Logan Pearsall Smith

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

The Talmud

If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.
- The Talmud

Ovid

Neglect of appearance becomes men.
- Ovid

George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
- George Bernard Shaw

Socrates

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates

John Dietrich

Energy conveys to us the idea of motion and activity. Inside a living organism we see a source of power, which by some manner is released in terms of movement.... Life is energy... it is the creator or initiator of movement change, development. We are different from moment to moment because the life principle is at work with us.... The spirit of humanity, like the forces of nature, and like the physical life, is at bottom energy.... Spiritual life, therefore, is just as much a development out of what has gone before in the evolutionary process as physical life is; which means that the origin of spiritual life is from within.
- John Dietrich

Mae West

When a girl goes wrong, men go right... after her.
- Mae West

Iain Sinclair

“An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.”
- Iain Sinclair

Harold Abelson

If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.
- Harold Abelson

George Santayana

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
- George Santayana

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.”
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906 - 2001)

Frank Tibolt

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."
- Frank Tibolt

George W. Bush

While the price of freedom and security is high, it is never too high!
- George W. Bush

George S. Patton

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
- George S. Patton

Laura Schlessinger

We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wired to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.
- Laura Schlessinger

George Eliot

“Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.”
- George Eliot

Rita Rudner

I was going to have cosmetic surgery until I noticed that the doctor's office was full of portraits by Picasso.
- Rita Rudner

Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde

Bertrand Russell

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; thats fair. In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
- Bertrand Russell

Rodney Dangerfield

"A girl phoned me the other day and said "Come on over, there's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was home."
- Rodney Dangerfield

Epicurus

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you have was once among the things only hoped for.
- Epicurus

Joe Paterno

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.- Joe Paterno

Alfred North Whitehead

"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether."
- Alfred North Whitehead

Anthony Robbins

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
- Anthony Robbins

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Truth lives on in the midst of deception.
- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Margaret Mead

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead

Mark Twain

Geniuses are people who dash off wierd, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.
- Mark Twain