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Thomas Traherne (1637-1674), English poet and religious writer
Writing books is the closest men ever come
to having children.
Norman Mailer (1923-2007), American writer and film director
In any place where books will be burned,
in the end people too will be burned.
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet, Almansor (1823)
Of making books
there is no end.
The Bible, Ecclesiastes 12:12
Everywhere I go,
I find a poet has been there before me.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian founder of psychoanalysis
I think it's good that we have books,
but they do make me sleepy.
Frank Zappa (1940-1993), American composer, singer, film director
A good book is the best friend.
Martin Tupper (1810-1889), English writer and poet,
Proverbial Philosophy, Series I (1838), ‘Of Reading’
Choose a writer as you choose a friend.
Wentworth Dillon (1630-1685), poet, fourth Earl of Roscommon
Take up and read!
Take up and read!
St Augustine of Hippo (354-430), philosopher and theologian
Confessions (397-398), book 8, chapter 7
If there's a book you really want to read,
and it hasn't been written yet,
then you must write it.
Toni Morrison (1932- ), American novelist, professor and Nobel winner
I am a bear of very little brain,
and long words upset me.
Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne creation)
Say all you have to say,
in the fewest possible words.
John Ruskin (1819-1900), English art critic and philanthropist
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658), Spanish Jesuit writer
I believe more in the scissors
than I do in the pen.
Truman Capote (1924-1984), American author
39. Talking
Not that the story need be long,
but it will take a long time
to make it short.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), letter to Harrison Blake,
16 November, 1857, in Writings (1906), volume 6, page 320
If A is success, then A equals X plus Y plus Z,
X is work, Y is play, Z is keep your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Austrian physicist, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
A fool says all that he or she is thinking.
The Bible, Proverbs 29:11
The secret to being boring
is to tell all that you know.
Voltaire (1694-1778), French writer, historian, and philosopher,
Discours en vers sur l’homme (1737), ‘De la nature de l’homme’
Think all that you say,
but do not say all that you think.
Author unknown
Give every man your ear but few your voice.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright
Because the parrot talks so much,
it is shut up in a cage.
Other birds, who do not speak, fly freely about.
Saskia Pandita (1182-1251), Tibetan spiritual leader, Buddhist scholar
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Charles Caleb Colton (c. 1780-1832), English cleric, Lacon (1820)
Understand the subject,
and the words will follow.
Cato the Elder (234-149 BC), Roman statesman,
in Caius Julius Victor Ars Rhetorica ‘De inventione’
Close your lips and open your heart.
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), Hindu philosopher
The less you think,
the more you talk.
Montesquieu (1689-1755), French social commentator
Dogs that are afraid bark loudest.
John Webster (c.1580 – c.1634), English dramatist
Making noise
is a good way of showing opposition.
Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), Nazi Germany's Minister of Propaganda
Speak for England.
Leo Amery (1873-1955), British politician and journalist
Talk softly, but carry a big stick.
You will go far.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26th President of the U.S.,
3 April, 1903, New York Times, 4 April, 1903
If you can't bite, don't show your teeth.
Jewish proverb
Your words should always be sweet,
with a little touch of salt.
The Bible, Colossians 4:6
Propaganda is a soft weapon:
hold it in your hands too long,
and it will move about like a snake,
and hit out the other way.
Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), American playwright
If you haven’t got anything good to say about
anyone come and sit by me.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980), controversial daughter of
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
Where everything is bad
it must be good to know the worst.
F. H. Bradley (1846-1924), English philosopher
Those who are not here
are always in the wrong.
Philippe Nericault Destouches (1680-1754), French dramatist
In the country of the blind
the one-eyed man is king.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), Dutch humanist and priest
The night has a thousand eyes,
and the day but one.
F.W. Bourdillon (1852-1921), English poet and translator
Words once spoken can never be brought back.
Wentworth Dillon (1630-1685), English poet
40. Who to Believe
Anyone who can handle a needle well
can make us see a thread which is not there.
E. H. Gombrich (1909-2001), Austrian art historian
Men are nearly always willing
to believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar (100 BC-44 BC), Roman writer, general, and statesman
We see what we want to see.
Anonymous
There is something worse than being blind,
and that is seeing something that isn’t there.
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), English novellist and poet
Living is easy with eyes closed,
misunderstanding all you see.
John Lennon (1940-1980), English songwriter, Strawberry Fields
You see, but you do not understand.
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), Scottish physician and writer
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892),
With all of your getting
get understanding.
The Bible, Proverbs 4:7
Keep your brain working to do things;
and keep it open to understand things.
Chinese proverb
Believe nothing of what you hear,
and only half of what you see.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American statesman, scientist,
philosopher, printer, writer and inventor
A camel never sees its own back.
African proverb
Look out for false prophets!
They come to you in sheep's clothes,
but in their hearts they are dangerous wolves.
Jesus, Matthew 7:15
Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth.
Democritus (460-370 BC), Greek philosopher
If it looks like a duck and it walks like a duck
and it sounds like a duck,
then I say it is a duck.
James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916), American poet
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire
.
Author unknown
Truth is beautiful, but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American writer and lecturer
Those who think it is okay to tell white lies
soon grow colour-blind.
Austin O'Malley (1858-1932), American physician and humourist
I was not lying.
I said things that later seemed to not be true.
Richard Nixon (1913-1994), 37th President of the U.S., on Watergate,
You may be tricked if you trust too much; but
you will live in pain if you do not trust enough.
Frank Crane (1868-1921), Presbyterian minister and writer
No one tests how deep the river is
by using both feet.
African proverb
41. Confidence
Confidence comes not from always being right
but from not fearing to be wrong.
Peter T. Mcintyre (1910-1995), New Zealand artist and author
If you have no confidence in yourself, you lose
twice in the race of life. With confidence, you
have won even before you have started.
Marcus Garvey (1887-1940), Jamaican journalist and orator
Everybody is stupid, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers (1879-1935), American cowboy and comedian
Confidence on the outside
begins by living with integrity on the inside.
Brian Tracy (1944- ), self-help author
They can, because they think they can.
Virgil (70-19 BC), Roman poet, Aeneid, book 5
Always keep your head up, but be careful to
keep your nose at a friendly level.
Max L. Forman (1909-1990), Jewish-American writer
The minute you start talking about
what you’re going to do if you lose,
you have lost.
George Shultz (1920- ), American statesman and businessman
The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), American author, speaker, politician
How little do we know of what we are.
How much less do we know
of what we could be.
George Byron (1788-1824), English poet, Don Juan (1819-1824)
We know what we are,
but not what we can be.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright,
Hamlet act 4, scene 5
If you smile at life,
life will smile at you.
Author unknown
42. Positive Thinking
Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Bob Fosse (1927-1987), actor, dancer, screenwriter, director
If life gives you a lemon, make lemonade.
Author unknown
Keep your face to the sunlight
and you cannot see the shadows.
Helen Keller (1880-1968), deaf-blind American author and lecturer
Count your blessings, and not your troubles.
Author unknown
The jungle is dark but full of diamonds.
Arthur Miller (1915-2005), American writer, Death of a Salesman
Before you put on a sad look,
make sure there are no smiles available.
Jim Beggs (1926-), sixth administrator of NASA
Shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss, you’ll end up with the stars.
Les Brown, African-American motivational speaker
One cannot get through life without pain...
What we can do is choose how to use the pain
that life gives to us.
Bernie Siegel, American doctor and lecturer
Hate drinks the greater part of her own poison,
and destroys herself.
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), French essayist
A positive attitude may not fix all your problems,
but it will upset enough people
to make it worth the work.
Herm Albright (1876-1944), German painter and lithographer
The more you teach positive ideas to others,
the better you learn them yourself.
Brian Tracy (1944- ), Canadian self-help author
The only thing that stands between a man and
what he wants from life is often just the will to
try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Richard Devos (1926- ), American billionaire & co-founder of Amway
Write your sad times in sand,
and your good times in stone.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright
You have no control
over what the other guy does.
You only have control over what you do.
A. J. Kitt (1968- ), American alpine ski champion
It is not a lucky word, this name “impossible”.
No good comes of those who have it
so often in their mouths.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish writer, historian, and teacher
It’s no use carrying an umbrella
if your shoes have holes in them.
Irish proverb
It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney (1901-1966), American animator, film producer,
entrepreneur, screen writer, voice actor, and philanthropist,
The most rewarding things you do in life
are often the ones
that look like they cannot be done.
Arnold Palmer (1929- ), American professional golfer
One man's meat is another man's poison.
Lucretius (c. 99-55 BC), Roman poet and philosopher
All things work together for good
to them that love God.
The Bible, Romans 8:28
Two men look out through the same bars.
One sees the mud and one the stars.
Frederick Langbridge (1849-1923), English poet and religious writer
She was happier to light a candle
than to curse the darkness.
Her light has warmed the earth.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965), American politician, on hearing that
Eleanor Roosevelt had died, New York Times, 8 November, 1962
I love living.
I have some problems with my life,
but living is the best thing
they’ve come up with so far.
Neil Simon (1927), American playwright and screenwriter
43. A Reason to Live
Those who have a ‘why’ to live
can put up with almost any ‘how’.
Victor Franki (1905-1997), Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist
A vision keeps the wealthy soul
looking at the path and not at the rocks.
Michael Norwood, Canadian doctor and author
Having a vision for your life lets you
live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.
Stedman Graham (1951- ), American educator, author, and speaker,
better known as a friend and close companion of Oprah Winfrey
If you do not know
where you are sailing,
no wind is good.
Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC-65 AD), Epistulae Morales number 71
There is nothing without a reason.
Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716), German philosopher and mathematician
Fear God and do what he tells you.
This is the whole reason for us being here.
The Bible, Ecclesiastes 12:13
When we find a reason to live,
the way to do it will follow.
Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), pacifist & ideological leader of India
If we stand for nothing,
we will fall for anything.
Alex Hamilton (1936- ), ‘Born Old’ in Listener, 9 November, 1978
In all that you do, think about
what it is leading to in the end.
Gesta Romanorum number 103, circa 1300 AD
The night comes when no man can work.
Jesus Christ, John 9:4
If you are not part of the answer,
you are part of the problem.
Eldridge Cleaver (1935-1998), writer and Black Panther leader
It is the reason for dying,
and not the death,
that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French revolutionary military hero
44. Life and Death
I die because I do not die.
John of the Cross (1542-91), Spanish priest, mystic, and writer
In my end is my beginning.
Mary Stuart (1542-1587), Queen of Scotland 1542-1567,
executed for plotting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I
If I die, I die.
The Bible, Esther 4:16, when going to ask the king to help her people.
If my heart is right,
it makes no difference
which way my head is turned.
Walter Raleigh (c. 1552-1618), English writer, soldier, and explorer,
before being killed with an axe by the French.
You can destroy the container if you will;
but the smell of the flowers will not go away.
Thomas Moore (1779-1852), Irish poet and singer, Irish Melodies, 1807
The more you cut us down
the more we grow in number.
The blood of Christians
is the seed of the Church.
Tertullian (c. 160-c. 225), Roman Christian author, Apologeticus ch. 50
And how can one die better,
than facing serious danger
for the good of his fathers
and the temples of his gods?
T. B. Macaulay (1800-1859), English poet, historian, and politician,
Lays of Ancient Rome (1842), ‘Horatius’
I know that the one who saves me is alive,
and that he will stand at the last day
on the earth.
The Bible, Job 19:25, after the devil destroyed all that Job owned.
What good does it do a man to win
the whole world,
and then lose his own soul?
Jesus, Mark 8:36
Death breaks into the cabins of the poor
as into the castles of kings.
Horace (65-8 BC), Roman lyric poet
When the chess game is over,
the King and the pawn
go back into the same box.
Italian proverb
The few little years we spend on earth
are only the first scene
in a play that projects into eternity.
Edwin Markham (1852-1940), American poet
All the earth is a stage,
and we are the actors on it.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It act 2, scene 7
They say such nice things about you at funerals,
that it makes me sad to think
I’m going to miss mine by just a few days.
Garrison Keillor (1942- ), American author, humourist, and radio star
The sole equality on earth is death.
Philip James Bailey (1816-1902), English poet and author
A man’s dying
is more the survivors' business than his own.
Thomas Mann (1875-1955), German writer and philanthropist
Saying goodbye doesn’t mean anything.
It’s the time we were together that matters,
not how we left it.
Trey Parker & Matt Stone, South Park creators, Tweek vs. Craig, 1999
The living need love more than the dead.
George Arnold (1834-1865), The Jolly Old Pedagogue (1866),
All people are like grass.
The best we can do is no better than the
flowers in the grass.
The grass dies and the flowers fall away
when the Spirit of God touches them.
The Bible, Isaiah 40:6
God loved the world enough
to give us his Son.
Now anyone who believes him need not die;
they can live forever.
The Bible, John 3:16
Life is short but sweet.
Sophocles (495-406 BC), Greek playwright, Alcestis
Learning comes slowly,
and life flies quickly.
John Davies (1569-1626), English poet and lawyer, Nosce Teipsum
All that a man has
will he give for his life.
The Bible, Job 2:4
Let the dead bury the dead.
Jesus, Matthew 8:22
I am not afraid to die,
but I do not want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen (1935- ), actor, author, jazz musician, Death (1975)
Death is one of the few things that can be done
just as easily lying down.
Woody Allen (1935- ), actor, author, jazz musician
Life does not stop being funny when people die
any more than it stops being serious
when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish playwright
45. Health
Serious sicknesses
are fixed with serious medicines,
or they will not be fixed at all.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet act 4, scene 2
One should eat to live,
and not live to eat.
Molière (1622-1673), French playwright, L’Avare (1669)
There is a thin man inside every fat
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