Mr. T.
Hippolyte Taine
The Talmud
Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
Elizabeth Taylor
Judy Tenuta
Debra Timah
William Makepeace Thackeray
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
Joe Theismann
Mother Theresa accepting the Nobel Peace Prize
Mother Theresa
Nix Thompson
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Kelvin Throop III "The Management Dictionary"
James Thurber
James Thurber
James Thurber
Alvin Toffler
Gary Tolbert
Leo Tolstoy
Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin
Sir Frederick Treves
Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
Donald Trump
Lao Tse
Tina Turner
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Lao-Tzu
Lao-Tzu
Sun Tzu
Pity the fool!
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
A child tells in the street what its father and mother say at home.
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
It's not the having, it's the getting.
I got an "A" in philosophy because I proved my professor didn't exist.
If you light a fire under a tree, will it run faster?
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Generally (especially in politics), if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
It's very hard for anything to make it out of Hollywood these days without a lame-ass wimpout ending tacked on at the whining request of test audiences selected from the most puerile of the Nielsen families, who are, as we all know, chosen on the basis of the number of cousin-cousin marriages in their family over the last 10 generations.
The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those who sang the best.
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
"Under consideration": We never heard of it.
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
I hate women because they always know where things are.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
A pragmatist is someone who doesn't see a glass half empty or half full - just twice as damn big as it needs to be!
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Place your trust in hard work, perseverance, and determination.
Even today, well-brought up English girls are taught to boil all vegetables for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests comes without his teeth!
The remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served us nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a poitician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.
Being a President is like riding a tiger...keep on riding or be swallowed.
As long as you're going to think anyway, think big.
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally."
The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as you
please.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution -- these can lift at a colossal humbug -- push it a little -- weaken it a little over the course of a century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Be careful about reading health books-you might die from a misprint.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."
Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied.
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still
exist, but you have ceased to live."
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
When in doubt, tell the truth.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know."
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harborl Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people go right on talking when you're interrupting.
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me the most are those I do understand.
Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world - and never will.
Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.
We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, adn discuss whether they was made or just happened.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.
We are chameleons, and our partialities change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
Richard Wagner: A composer whose music is better than it sounds.
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Opprotunities multiply as they are seized.