From Woody Allen

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

From George Burns

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

From Bill Cosby

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.

From Imelda Marcos

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

From Paula poundstone

I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name.

From Steven Wright

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

From Josh Billings

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

From Bette Davis

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

From Charles M Schulz

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

From George bernard Shaw

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Marylin Vis Savant

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

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Magic words and famous quotes and quotations from thousands of famous people.

From Blaise Pascal

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

From Henry Ward Beecher

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

From Emmanuel Teney

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

From James M Barrie

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

From Henry Austin Dobson

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

From Van Morrison

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

From Frank Zappa

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

From Plato

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

From John Lennon

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

From Elvis Presley

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

From Margaret thatcher

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

From Tacitus

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

From Augustine Birell

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

From James K Polk

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.

From Scipio Africanus

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.

From Creigton Abrams

You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.

From John Abizaid

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last.

From Jimmy Carter

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

From Andy Grove

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

From Tillie Olsen

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

From Doug Larson

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.

From Juliana Hatfield

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

From Bill Cosby

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

From Erma Bombeck

Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

From Dale carnegie

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

From Buddha

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

From George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

From Mencius

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

From C S lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

From katherine Mansfield

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

From Thomas A Edison

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

From Kofi Annan

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

From Bertrand Russell

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

From Martin Luther King, Jr

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

From Carl Schurz

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

From Herbert Hoover

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves.

From Gary Ryan Blair

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

From Hendry R Luce

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

From Tim Banners Lee

Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.

From Andrew Carnegie

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

From Stephen Covey

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

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From Muhammad Ali

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

From Andre Gide

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

From Thomas Jafferson

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

From Mother Teresa

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

From Georges Clamenceau

I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.

From Irving Babitt

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

From William Faulkner

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

From Richard Nelson Bolles

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

From J Paul Getty

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

From Susan Sontag

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

From Mark Twain

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

From Josh Billings

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

From James Wistler

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

From Scott Adams

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

From Antoine de Saint Exupery

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

From Duana Michals

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

From Pablo Picasso

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

From L Frank Baum

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

From Theodor Geisel

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

From Harold Wilson

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

From C S lewis

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

From Carl Jung

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

From Jimi Hendrix

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

From B B King

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

From Benjamin Britten

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

From E B White

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

From Anton Chekhov

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

From Lao Tzu

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

From Julie Andrews

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

From Benjamin Franklin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

From Ralph Marston

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

From Douglas Adam

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

From Fred Brooks

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

From John Leonard

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

From Doug Collins

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

From Octavio Paz

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

From Andre Gide

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

From Henry Miller

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

From John Ruskin

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

From William James

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

From Hugh Sidey

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

From Freidrich Nietzsche

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

From William Ralph Inge

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

From Confucius

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

From Predo Calderon de la Barca

But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.

From Karen Horney

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

From Umbreto Eco

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

From John Burroughs

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

From Muhammad Ali

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

From Barack Obama

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

From Abraham Lincoln

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Time by Kahlil Gibran

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

From C S Lewis

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.