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Character is much easier kept than recovered.
- Thomas Paine

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer (1805-80)

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
- Ivan Panin

If all the girls attending the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.
- Dorothy Parket

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
- Cyril Parkinson

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
- Ellen Parr

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
- Blaise Pascal

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
- Blaise Pascal

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
- Louis Pasteur

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.
- Alan Paton

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
- Alan Paton

Who knows for what we live, struggle and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
- Alan Paton

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
- Alan Paton

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
- General George S. Patton

Never tell the people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their integrity.
- General George S. Patton

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.
- General George S. Patton

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
- General George S. Patton

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.
- General George S. Patton

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
- General George S. Patton

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.
- General George S. Patton

Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.
- Pope John Paul II

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.
- Pope John Paul II

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
- Linus Pauling

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like percocious giants and peace like retarded pygmies.
- Lester Pearson

Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
- Neil Peart

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
- Jack Penn

I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.
- J.C. Penney

Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- Boies Penrose

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Perelman

After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
- Alfred Edward Perlman

If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes.
- H. Ross Perot

Eagles don't flock - you have to find them one at a time.
- H. Ross Perot

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
- Laurence J. Peter

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
- Laurance Peter

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
- Laurance Peter

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
- Laurance Peter

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
- Laurance Peter

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
- Thomas Peters

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
- Thomas Peters

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
- Wendell Phillips

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
- Pablo Picasso

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pine (Sent to Mrs. Gair)

Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
- Augusto Pinochet

The measure of a man is what he does with power.
- Pittacus

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Plato

Life must be lived as play.
- Plato

The harder you work, the luckier you get.
- Gary Player

People either think with their brains or their hearts. Never both because both are too stubborn to compromise.
- Amanda Plomp

Life sucks....then you die.....enjoy the lollipops while you can.
- Amanda Plomp

If you're listening to Everclear, nothing can go wrong.
- Amanda Plomp

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.
- Roman Polanski

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
- Polish proverb

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

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
- Elvis Presley (1935-1977)

They talk most who have the least to say.
- Mathew Prior

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
- Herbert Prochnow

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
- William Proxmire