Scott Adams
Joseph Addison
Kim Addonizio
in a book with Dorianne Loux
Thomas Ady
Aeschylus
Oscar Ameringer
Gillian Anderson
Anonymous
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Guillame Appolinaire
Aristotle
Isaac Asimov
Marcus Aurelius
Francis Bacon
Bion
Abraham Bishop
Algernon Blackwood
Robert Bloch
Louis de Blois
Jacob Boehme
Victor Borge
Ray Bradbury
Paul Brodeur
Anita Brookner
Garth Brooks
Charlie Brown
William Cullen Bryant
Sandra Bullock
Robert Burton
Samuel Butler
Lord Byron
John W. Campbell
Jimmy Carter
William Caskey
Miguel De Cervantes
George Chapman
Charles Churchill
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Vance Cheney
Samuel Clemens
Charles Caleb Colton
Noel Coward
Abraham Cowley
Davy Crockett
Tim Curry
Dante
James Dean
Eustache Deschamps
Charles Dickens
Emily Dickinson
Wentworth Dillon
John Dryden
Albert Einstein
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thomas Sterns Eliot
Ebeneezer Elliott
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jean de la Fontaine
Gerald R. Ford
Benjamin Franklin
French Proverb
Robert Frost
Robert Fulghum
Jean Gabin
Neil Gaiman
Paul Gerhardt
Oliver Goldsmith
George Noel Gordon
Patrick Grant
Thomas Gray
Matthew Green
Nick Guarino
Joseph Hall
Patrick Henry
James Hetfield
John Heywood
Joseph G. Holland
Horace
Houssaye
Anders Hove
Hubert H. Humphrey
Aldous Huxley
Kobayashi Issa
Teri A. Jacobs
Richard Jefferies
Thomas Jefferson
St. Jerome
Jewel
Yi Jing
St. John
Jon Bon Jovi
Philip Ketchum
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stephen King
Dean Koontz
Nullen Korn't
Diogenes Laertius
David Lawson
Tanith Lee
Chris Levinson
Henry Wadsworth
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Longfellow
Dorianne Loux
in a book with Kim Addonizio
H. P. Lovecraft
James Madison
Christopher Marlowe
John Marshall
Graham Masterton
Menander
Daniel Kian McKiernan
Kyra Micheals
James A. Mishener
Moliere
Marion Morrison
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"There is no idea so good it can't be ruined by a few well-placed idiots."
"See in what peace a christian can die."
"It seems we have always lived in dark times."
"Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
The bed be blest that I lie on.
Four angels for my bed,
Four angels round my head,
One to watch, and one to pray
And two to bear my soul away."
"I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils."
"Wisdom comes through suffering."
"Politics -- the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich
by promising to protect each from the other."
"I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We are here to learn from one another."
"The slave thinks he is released from bondage, only to find a stronger set of chains."
"Salus populi suprema lex."
(The people's safety is the highest law.)
"If you think it's hard to defend the guilty, try the innocent."
"Reality is only a state of mind - our dreams are as real
as our nightmares."
"Your childhood ends the moment you know you're
going to die."
"In this world where white is right and black is wrong,
all I see is gray."
"A broken heart is hard to heal and love is hard to forget."
"Sometimes not even all the power the written word can wield is enough...some things simply cannot be explained in words."
"How can you be so happy when life is so sad?"
"Why must only the dead rest?"
"How can I laugh tomorrow? I can't even smile today."
"You cannot change the future, it has already happened."
"What if this is as good as it gets?"
"Love is too precious to wish away."
"The footsteps of great people need not be encased in stone, their deeds live on in our hearts and will be passed from generation to generation until the end of time."
"Crawling on the planet's face,
Insects known as the human race,
Lost in time and lost in space,
And meaning."
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money."
"I always knew that looking back on my tears would someday make me laugh, but I never knew that looking back on my laughter would someday make me cry."
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
"'Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came.
He pushed them, and they flew."
"Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
"Cells in our body stop multiplying when there are enough of them for a given purpose.
When they don't stop multiplying, we call it cancer.
And that's what life on Earth really is."
"Very little is needed to make a happy life."
"Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books."
"The road to Hell is easy to travel; the road to Heaven
is not."
"Why shouldn't the people fear the great? The liberties of mankind were never
destroyed by any other class of men."
"Nothing can help...this is damned country where justice is to be bought with dollars."
"The very symbol of civilization? Noise, lights, and bars on the windows."
"For the whole universe is, as it were, a book written by the finger of God, in which each creature forms a letter. But as one who has not learnt to read, when he looks into an open book, sees the characters of the letters, but understands not their significance and force; in like manner, he who perceives not the things of God, beholds the external aspect of creatures but comprehends not their interior meaning."
"The soul sees both the heavenly and the hellish, for it lives between both."
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
"The probing scientists of A.D. One Million will find the little ivory bones, the thinly articulated skeletons of advertising executives and clubwomen and children. ...And the scientists will say, so this is what the iron cities fed on, is it? and give the bones a kick. So this is what kept the iron stomachs full, eh? Poor things, they never had a chance. Probably kept by the iron monsters who needed them in order to survive... "
"Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off."
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder;
prolonged absence makes the heart grow cold."
"Heaven's not beyond the clouds, its just beyond the fear."
"They all must be crazy out there."
"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"
"Lovliest of lovely things are they,
On Earth, that soonest pass away."
"If you don't have good stories to tell on your deathbed, what good was living?."
"They do not live but linger."
"Oaths are but words, and words but wind."
"I love not man the less, but Nature more."
"The Angel of Death spread his wings."
"Smiles form the channels of a future tear."
"The good old times are gone."
"Things shouldn't go on forever."
"Only life is not enduring."
"All the legislation in the world can't fix what's wrong with America."
"I stand on the edge of a cliff and am afraid, not because of anything that the cliff can do,
but of the possibility that I might throw myself over at any time and that nothing is stopping me. Nothing."
"The world doesn't stop for one man's angst. It doesn't even blink."
"Sing away sorrow, cast away care."
"Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools."
"Learn'd without sense."
"Have no fear, the truth shall set you free."
"All is lost."
"Love is blynd."
"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears."
(See "Mark Twain")
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing."
"We hate some persons because we do not know them;
and we will not know them because we hate them."
"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
"Words that weep and tears that speak."
"You can all go to Hell...I'm going to Texas."
"It's not easy having a good time. Even smiling makes
my face ache."
"Abandon hope all ye who enter here."
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
"Better honor than shameful wealth."
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of Hope, it was the winter of Despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way."
"A word is dead when it is said some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
"I'm Nobody. Who are you? Are you Nobody, too?"
"My God, my Father, and my Friend
Do not forsake me in my end."
"Beware the fury of a patient man."
"The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live."
"I like to think that people, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace then our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the way and let them have it."
"What we call the beginning is often the end, and to make an end is to make a beginning."
"This is the death of the earth."
"This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang but a whimper."
"All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,
But nearness to death, no nearer to God...
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
"The world turns and the world changes,
But one thing does not change.
In all my years, one thing does not change:
The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil."
"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable."
"Where is the life we have lost in living?"
"God save the people!"
"Each moment of the year has its own beauty...a picture which was never seen before
and which shall never be seen again."
"People who make no noise are dangerous."
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have."
"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang seperately."
"Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead."
"He that lives upon hope will die."
"We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it."
"We love the things we love for what they are."
"We vainly wrestle with the blind belief
That aught we cherish
Can ever quite pass out of utter grief
And wholly perish."
"Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts."
"The day someone loves you it is very beautiful weather."
"Stories...distract us from the things in the darkness."
"O sacred head now wounded,
With grief and shame bowed down;
Now scornfully surrounded
With thorns, thy only crown."
"Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law."
"I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines."
(See "Lord Byron")
"The world we live in...is cruelly imperfect."
"God...allows evil, but he did not create it."
"Thoughts that breathe and words that burn."
"The greater prey upon the less."
"Your best revenge is to live well."
"I'll never be a great man. My name will never be on the tips of everyone's tongue. But that's not important. What is important is that I am true to my life's work."
"So little in his purse, so much upon his back."
"Give me liberty or give me death!"
"When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives."
"Better is to bow than break."
"The heart is wiser than the intellect."
"Carpe diem!"
(Seize the day!)
"Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are."
"There is no love between the living and the dead."
"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."
"The right to be heard does not automatically include
the right to be taken seriously."
"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make
you mad."
"Never forget: we walk on hell, gazing at flowers."
"The greatest works and lives are tragedies."
"Pain, a symptom of life. Death, the cure. Then why didn't everyone long for death? ...Wouldn't it be better not to feel anything, especially when all that was left to feel was suffering? ...A sick sadistic perversion, this will to live."
"We're only ashes, ashes."
"Human suffering is so great, so endless, so awful that I can hardly write of it... The whole and the worst the worst pessimist can say is far beneath the least particle of truth, so immense is the misery of man."
"I walk in the midst of immortal things."
"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
"A friend is long sought, hardly found, and
difficultly kept."
"In the end, only kindness matters."
"Evil does not die easily."
"Greater man hath no love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
"Your conscience is all you can take to your grave."
"There is a guage besides the law as to what is right and wrong - a man's conscience."
"The old adage, 'an eye for an eye' leaves us all blind."
"If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die."
"Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?"
"Sometimes the truth of how we live is just ugly, that's all."
"The most important things are the hardest things to say."
"It is better to be good than evil, but one aceives goodenss at a terrific cost."
"There's...a dark face on the other side of the mirror."
"God's a real sport. He's such a sport that he fixed up a funny comic-opera world where a bunch of glass Christmas tree globes could outlive you. Neat world,
and a really first-class God in charge of it."
"Days which seem genuinely good - good all the way through are rare... God, in his infinite wisdom seemed much more generous when it came to doling out pain."
"Just go on dancing with me like this forever..., and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoes on the stars and hang upside down from the moon."
"Do you know how cruel God can be? How fantastically cruel? Sometimes he makes us live."
"When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise unto the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you beginto eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain. It's the Western Way of Enlightenment. You begin to cram fists into your mouth to stifle the screams. You bleed on the inside."
"Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation."
"Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched."
"Reality...is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves."
"You know the lady with the scales? The one who stands outside most city courthouses? ...Slap some handcuffs on that broad's wrists and some tape over her mouth to go along with the blindfold, rape her and roll her in the mud. You like that image? I don't, but it's a fair representation of how the law works."
"Sometimes the world makes you be a bitch."
"But though falling autumn leaves may reveal skeletal branches, spring reclothes the wood; when one day ends, the next begins, for in this infinite universe there is no final conclusion to anything, definately not to hope."
"The only people who have constitutional rights are the criminals."
"I take life seriously and I take my work seriously, but I never take myself seriously. The human race is a glorious parade of fools and its fun to be right out in front, twirling a baton. Viewing life with a sense of humour is not just one way to look at it - but the only way."
"Life is for the living, leave death to me."
"Time is the image of eternity."
"We the unmotivated, led by the unqualified, have done so much with so little for so long
that we now attempt to do the impossible with nothing."
"Man is afraid of his fears. He ignores the shadow of the wolf thrown on the paving, saying: It is only a shadow."
"Time heals, right? I've found it also serves to erase, to smooth the edges of things too sharp,
too full of pain to live alongside on a daily basis."
"Death is a slow forgetting."
"The truth is, we don't change much. Who we become is
a combination of learned bahavior, trial and error, and chance."
"If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life, sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostilities."
"It seems we have always lived in dark times."
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die."
"A government that does not trust its law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust."
"Accurst be he that first invented war."
"The power to tax involves the power to destroy."
"You can't live your life in cotton wadding, can you? You have to take risks. You have to be hurt.
Otherwise...you might as well be dead."
"Whom the gods love die young."
"It is always Dark. Light only hides the Darkness."
"Maybe that's what crazy is...so deep inside yourself you can't find your way back out."
"That is perhaps the worst trick God ever pulled on us, that when we want to live, we die, and when we want to die, we live."
"An age is called dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."
"A learned fool is more foolish than in ignorant one."
"There are no longer any children."
(See "John Wayne")
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