Edward Abbey
Marcel Achard
Lord Acton 1877
George Ada
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adamsin Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adamsin Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Henry Adams
Henry Brooks Adams
John Adams in a letter to his wife, dated 1780
John Quincy Adams
Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison
Aesop
Louisa May Alcott
Buzz Aldrin
Muhammad Ali
Saul David Alinsky
James Allen
Tim Allen
Tim Allen
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Washington Allston
Colonial American proverb
Henri Frederic Amiel
Kingsley Amis
Marian Anderson
Ramona L. Anderson
Mario Andretti
Maya Angelou
Robert Anthony
Robert Anthony
Robert Anthony
Peter Applebome International Imitation Hemingway Competition
Karl Arbeiter former teacher of Albert Einstein
Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.
Oscar Arias
Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle
Aristotle
Rep. Dick Armey (R-TX)
H.W. Arnold
Isaac Asimov
Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine
Saint Augustine
Marcus Aurelius
Jane Austen
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Time is an illusion...lunchtime, doubly so.
If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths probably seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation, he abandonded this theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their lips, the thought, their brains start working.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
A teacher affects eternity; no one can tell where his influence stops.
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Huckleberry Finn -- If Mr. Clemens cannot think of anything better to tell our pure-mimded lads and lasses, he had better stop writing for them.
Houston, Tranquility Base here. The eagle has landed.
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.
Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across the floor...I told him he was grounded.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
I am at two with nature.
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possiblity, like the flint which awaites the shock of the iron before it can give forth it's spark.
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for
peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other
people, hoping to hill the emptiness that plagues them. The
irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.
Circumstances may cause interupptions or delays, but never lose sight of the goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere.
The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.
You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.
We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength. But there was also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a French restaurant. I could not tell the girl about he woman of the tollway, of her milk white BMW and her Jordache smile. There had been a fight. I had punched her boyfriend, who fought the mechanical bulls. Everyone told hime, "Your ride the bull, senor. you do not fight it." But he was lean and tough like a bad rib-eye and he fought the bull. And then he fought me. And when we finished there were no winners, just men doing what men must do. ..."Stop the car," the girl said. There was a look of terrible sadness in her eyes. She knew about the woman of the tollway. I knew not how. I started to speak, but she raised an arm and spoke with a quiet and peace I will never forget. "I do not ask for whom's the tollway belle," she said, "the tollway belle's for the." The next morning our youth was a memory, and our happiness was a lie. Life is like a bad margarita with good tequila, I thought as I poured whiskey onto my granola and faced a new day.
You're aware the boy failed my grade school math class, I take it? And not that many years later he's teaching college. Now I ask you: Is that the sorriest indictment of the American educational system you ever heard? [pauses to light cigarette.] No aptitude at all for long division, but never mind. It's him they ask to split the atom. How he talked his way into the Nobel prize is beyond me. But then, I suppose it's like the man says, it's not what you know...
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
The effect of one upright individual is incalcuable.
True friendship is one soul inhabiting two bodies.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an act, but a habit.
Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
If I were in the President's place I would not get a chance to
resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs.
Armey standing over me saying, how do I reload this damn thing?
The worst bankrupt in the world is the person who has lost his enthusiasm.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that
heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but
'That's funny...'"
The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page.
Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows,
but by what he loves.
Love has reasons that reason knows not.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Success supposes endeavor.