It is the rare fortune of these days that a man may think what he likes and say what he thinks.
Tacitus
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Tacitus
After sixty years of self-experience, I have found that out and out hypocrisy is an almost impossible achievement.
Rabindranath Tagore
Age considers; youth ventures.
Rabindranath Tagore
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore
Creation is an endless activity of God's freedom; it is an end in itself.
Rabindranath Tagore
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore
Freedom is true when it is a revelation of truth.
Rabindranath Tagore
I believe in the true meeting of the East and the West.
Rabindranath Tagore
I do not put my faith in institutions, but in individuals all over the world who think clearly, feel nobly and act rightly.
They are the channels of moral truth.
Rabindranath Tagore
I have no zeal for life. You know the only thing that concerns me? That I have laboured so hard to build Viswa-bharati, wouldn't
it have no value after my exit? ... I think I have one reservation regarding death, and that is Viswa-bharati, nothing else.
Rabindranath Tagore
I say again and again that I am a poet, that I am not a fighter by nature. I would give
everything to be one with my surroundings. I love my fellow beings and I prize their love.
Rabindranath Tagore
India has ever declared that Unity is Truth, and separateness is maya.
Rabindranath Tagore
It hurts me deeply when the cry of rejection rings loud against the West in my country with the clamour that the Western education can only injure us.
Rabindranath Tagore
It's difficult to know a person until he turns twenty-five - difficult to say what would happen to him ...
but it is easy to recognise a twenty seven-year old - it can be said he's become what he's supposed to be, and
from now on this is how his life would be guided, [if] there's anything left in his life to get astonished.
Rabindranath Tagore
Our country is the land of rites and ceremonials, so that we have more faith in worshiping the feet of the priest than the Divinity whom he serves.
Rabindranath Tagore
Our fight is a spiritual fight, it is for Man.
Rabindranath Tagore
That which fails to illuminate the intellect, and only keeps it in the obsession of some delusion, is its greatest obstacle.
Rabindranath Tagore
The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.
Rabindranath Tagore
The religion of economics is where we should above all try to bring about this union of ours ... If this field
ceases to be one of warfare, if there we can prove, that not competition but cooperation is the real truth, then
indeed we can reclaim from the hands of the Evil One an immense territory for the reign of peace and goodwill.
Rabindranath Tagore
To enjoy something, it's essential to guard it with the fence of leisure.
Rabindranath Tagore
He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
S. G. Tallentyre - See
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Be careful, be cautious, do not rush into negotiations ... be careful what you give away now,
you may wish you had not done so should in future the balance of forces turn in your favour.
Oliver Tambo
If you can't change your fate change your attitude.
Amy Tan
It is everyone's prerogative to retire. But it's like giving up on life as far as I'm concerned.
Roger Taylor
My glasses are from Cutler & Gross. They're not prescription: I just love wearing them. I used to wear Ray-Ban a
lot and then I realised that a lot of the things I've started going for are a little bit more refined. I liked the fact
that I was supporting a British brand, somebody I could have a relationship with and people that I could talk to.
Tinie Tempah
I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not
going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
In Memoriam A. H. H.
Alfred Tennyson
And blessings on the falling out
That all the more endears,
When we fall out with those we love
And kiss again with tears!
Alfred Tennyson
For Man is man and master of his fate.
Alfred Tennyson
In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Alfred Tennyson
Tomorrow 'ill be the happiest time of all
the glad New-year;
Of all the glad New-year, mother, the
maddest merriest day;
For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother,
I'm to be Queen o' the May.
Alfred Tennyson
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a
much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
Mother Teresa
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa
Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
Mother Teresa
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
Mother Teresa
Good works are links that form a chain of love.
Mother Teresa
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
Mother Teresa
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
Mother Teresa
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I
wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
Mother Teresa
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
Mother Teresa
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother Teresa
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
Mother Teresa
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
Mother Teresa
It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.
Mother Teresa
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Mother Teresa
It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
Mother Teresa
Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I love you.
Mother Teresa
Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
Mother Teresa
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.
Mother Teresa
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of
peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.
Mother Teresa
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be
got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
Mother Teresa
Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the
graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.
Mother Teresa
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
Mother Teresa
Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.
Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
Mother Teresa
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Mother Teresa
Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see
how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
Mother Teresa
Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
Mother Teresa
Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many
responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
Mother Teresa
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother Teresa
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own
child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Teresa
The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
Mother Teresa
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa
The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the
best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
Mother Teresa
There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.
Mother Teresa
There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love
and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Mother Teresa
There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Mother Teresa
There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I
only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother Teresa
We are all pencils in the hand of God.
Mother Teresa
We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers,
grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
Mother Teresa
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted,
unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Mother Teresa
We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have
done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.
Mother Teresa
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.
Mother Teresa
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa
Morality aside, there are other factors deterring strategic defaults,
whether in recourse or nonrecourse states. These include the economic
and emotional costs of giving up one's home and moving, the perceived social stigma of defaulting, and a serious hit to a borrower's credit rating.
Richard H. Thaler
Growing Stronger
emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant
struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.
Thalía
Adios.
John Thanos
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.
Margaret Thatcher
In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
Margaret Thatcher
Pennies don't fall from heaven. They have to be earned on earth.
Margaret Thatcher
We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Margaret Thatcher
We shall not be diverted from our course. To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media
catch-phrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say. You turn if you want; the lady's not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher
Jacques Francois-Anatole Thibault - See
Anatole France
Don't be afraid to be unique or speak your mind because that's what makes you different from everyone else.
Dave Thomas
Whether it's choosing a career or deciding what charity to get involved with, the choice should come from your heart.
Ultimately, you are the one who has to get up every morning and enjoy what you are doing, so make sure it matters to you.
Dave Thomas
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
Dylan Thomas
I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record...
Dylan Thomas
Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.
Dylan Thomas
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where
thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
Hunter S. Thompson
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a
different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
Moose...Indian...
Henry David Thoreau
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau
Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry David Thoreau
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or
temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Henry David Thoreau
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
Henry David Thoreau
But, the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is
before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Thucydides
Giving up cannot be an option.
Greta Thunberg
We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!
Addressing the United Nations Climate Action Summit, New York, September 23, 2019.
Greta Thunberg
Boys are perhaps beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of eighteen months and ninety years.
James Thurber
God bless... God damn.
James Thurber
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
James Thurber
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.
James Thurber
Love is what you've been through with somebody.
James Thurber
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
James Thurber
With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.
James Thurber
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville
The illiterate of the year 2000 will not be the individual who cannot read and write, but the one who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire
industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.
Alvin Toffler
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
J. R. R. Tolkien
All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.
Leo Tolstoy
The only qualities essential for real success in journalism are ratlike cunning, a plausible manner, and a little literary ability.
Nicholas Tomalin
The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Paul Tournier
Get to know your people. What they do well, what they enjoy doing, what their
weaknesses and strengths are, and what they want and need to get from their job.
Robert Townsend
If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be
profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?
Robert Townsend
Nobody should be chief executive officer of anything for more than five or six
years. By then he's stale, bored, and utterly dependent upon his own cliches.
Robert Townsend
One of the most important tasks of a manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure.
Robert Townsend
Top
management is supposed to be a tree full of owls ... hooting when management heads
into the wrong part of the forest. I'm still unpersuaded they even know where the forest is.
Robert Townsend
Toy - See
La Toya Jackson
No manufacturing company will ever do well if they are concerned only with calculating profits.
Shoichiro Toyoda
The primary cause of success in life is the ability to set and achieve goals. That's why the people who do not have goals are
doomed forever to work for those who do. You either work to achieve your own goals or you work to achieve someone else's goals.
Brian Tracy
A student undergoing a word-association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: Because everything does.
Honor Tracy
Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed
to agency discretion and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.
The Treasury Department's proposed Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. Quoted September, 2008.
Treasury Department
It's not based on any particular data point, we just wanted to choose a really large number.
Spokeswoman explaining how the $700 billion number was chosen for the initial bailout. Quoted by forbes.com on September 23, 2008.
Treasury Department
I feel here that this time they have succeeded.
Leon Trotsky
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky
The depths and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when
they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.
Leon Trotsky
All the president is is a glorified PR man who spends his life flattering,
kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S. Truman
I fired him [MacArthur] because he wouldn't respect the authority of the President ... I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of
a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.
Time Magazine
Harry S. Truman
I have found that the best way to give advise to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S. Truman
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Harry S. Truman
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Harry S. Truman
Once a decision was made, I did not worry about it afterward.
Harry S. Truman
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men
who are afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Harry S. Truman
We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire
destruction prophesied in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark.
Diary
Harry S. Truman
He's not a war hero. ... He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured.
Criticizing John McCain, interview at Family Leadership Summit, Ames, Iowa, July 18, 2015.
Donald Trump
I alone can fix it.
Speech at Republican National Convention, Cleveland, July 21, 2016.
Donald Trump
[I am] not smart, but genius ... and a very stable genius at that!
In a tweet, January 6, 2018.
Donald Trump
I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters.
Speech at campaign rally, Sioux Center, Iowa, January 23, 2016.
Donald Trump
I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russia. That's taken off.
As reported by The New York Times, explaining the firing of James Comey to visiting Russian officials, May 10, 2017.
Donald Trump
I see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there
a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning?
Remarks at a White House Coronavirus Task Force news briefing, April 23, 2020.
Donald Trump
I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. Tell Zelensky to do the right thing.
In a phone call with Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, on September 9, 2022.
Donald Trump
I wasn't satisfied just to earn a good living. I was looking to make a statement.
Donald Trump
I would like you to do us a favor, though.
Memorandum of telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskiy, July 25, 2019.
Donald Trump
If you don't have passion ... you might as well give up ... you have no chance of
making it. Passion is the essence of life, and certainly the essence of success.
Donald Trump
If you're going to be thinking only one thing, you might as well be thinking big.
Donald Trump
In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
Donald Trump
Look at that face! Would anyone vote for that?
On fellow Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, quoted in Rolling Stone magazine, September 24, 2015.
Donald Trump
My style of dealmaking is quite simple and straightforward. I just keep pushing and pushing to get what I'm after.
Donald Trump
One day - it's like a miracle - it will disappear.
Referring to the coronavirus in remarks at an African American History Month reception at the White House, February 27, 2020.
Donald Trump
Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Donald Trump
Lao Tse - See
Lao Tzu
Mao Tse-Tung - See
Mao Zedong
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Barbara W. Tuchman
I am going to be face to face with Jesus now.... I love you all very much. I will see you all when you get there.... I will wait for you.
Karla Faye Tucker
Tuff Gong - See
Bob Marley
Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
Ted Turner
If you have an olive, you want an olive tree. You want a little more. You want the whole tree.
Ted Turner
My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Ted Turner
The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish.
Ted Turner
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Desmond Tutu
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Mark Twain
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Mark Twain
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Mark Twain
Ah well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.
Mark Twain
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain
An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.
Mark Twain
And I shall dream both before and after I go to sleep, of the little flower that has sprung up in the desert beside me and shed its
fragrance over my life and made its ways attractive with its beauty and turned its weariness to contentment with its sweet spirit. And I shall
bless you, my darling, out of a fullness of a heart that knows your worth beyond the ken of any ... better than all others I can love you, and
do love you, and shall always love you, always. Good night, darling - and peaceful slumbers refresh you and ministering angels attend you.
Mark Twain
Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
Mark Twain
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.
Mark Twain
Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows anybody.
Mark Twain
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
He had had much experience of physicians, and said the only way to keep your health is
to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.
Mark Twain
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain
I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.
Mark Twain
I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it, but I couldn't find honest employment.
Mark Twain
I do love you...as the dew loves the flowers;
as the birds love the sunshine;
as the wavelets love the breeze...
as the angels love the pure in heart.
Mark Twain
I don't mind what the opposition say of me, so long as they don't tell the truth about me; but
when they descend to telling the truth about me, I consider that is taking an unfair advantage.
Mark Twain
I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel that they have not said enough.
Mark Twain
I have never taken any exercise, except for sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome.
Mark Twain
I never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.
Mark Twain
I take my only exercise acting as pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
Mark Twain
I was born modest, but it didn't last.
Mark Twain
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
In the matter of diet - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the
things that didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it.
Mark Twain
It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.
Mark Twain
It is a free press ... There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's
speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
Mark Twain
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain
It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to
find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.
Mark Twain
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Mark Twain
It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Mark Twain
July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together.
This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.
Mark Twain
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.
Mark Twain
Leavin' me as happy as a dog with two tails.
Mark Twain
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
[Mankind] in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon - laughter. Power, money, persuasion,
supplication, persecution - these can lift at a colossal humbug - push it a little, weaken it a little, century by
century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain
More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.
Mark Twain
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
Mark Twain
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
Mark Twain
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
Mark Twain
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to
charity, wait, and count to forty. To save three-quarters, count sixty. To save it all, count sixty-five.
Mark Twain
That is just the way of the world; an enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes
a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
Mark Twain
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a
large matter - it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
Mark Twain
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark Twain
The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everyone will side with you when you are in the right.
Mark Twain
The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.
Mark Twain
The timid man yearns for full value and asks a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.
Mark Twain
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you
have read one of his books; 2, to tell him you have read all his books; 3, to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his
forthcoming book. No. 1 admits you to his respect; No. 2 admits you to his admiration; No. 3 carries you clear into his heart.
Mark Twain
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
Mark Twain
Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action,
without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing
difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended
that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a
hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
Mark Twain
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.
Mark Twain
Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Mark Twain
You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir! I have been through it from Alpha to Omega,
and I tell you the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
Mark Twain
Ageing doesn't mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn't mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers.
Twiggy
Two Gun - See
Francis Crowley
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
Liv Tyler
I don't think that the government has any business seeing me naked as a condition of traveling about the country.
John Tyner
If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.
Addressing a TSA employee at San Diego airport on November 13, 2010.
John Tyner
I wanna eat his children.
Trash talking about Lennox Lewis.
Mike Tyson
Chuang Tzu - See
Zhuangzi
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, We did this ourselves.
Lao Tzu
A terrace nine stories high rises from a handful of earth; A journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath one's feet.
Lao Tzu
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Failure is the foundation of success; success is the lurking place of failure.
Lao Tzu
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Lao Tzu
In government it is order that matters; In action it is timeliness that matters.
Lao Tzu
It is on disaster that good fortune perches; it is beneath good fortune that disaster crouches.
Lao Tzu
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates
sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu
The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a
mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.
Lao Tzu
The Master has no possessions. The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.
Lao Tzu
To lead people, walk behind them.
Lao Tzu
Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise.
Lao Tzu
Meng Tzu - See
Mencius
All war is deception.
Sun Tzu
The general who wins a battle makes many calculations ... here the battle is fought. The general who loses a
battle makes but few calculations beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few to defeat.
Sun Tzu
The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.
Sun Tzu
Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the
fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted.
Sun Tzu