Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence. It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in
herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds,
insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability
to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we challenge and question.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression ... I feel an affinity for art when it was made a
form of existence, like when shamans worked in the territory between men and unknown powers ... I try to bewitch the crowd.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Dear Abby - See
Pauline Phillips
Are all men in disguise except those crying?
Encounter at a Greyhound Bus Station.
Dannie Abse
I know the colour rose, and it is lovely,
But not when it ripens in a tumour;
And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike,
In limbs that fester are not springlike.
Pathology of Colours
Dannie Abse
Piano
At 66 Sandringham Crescent
an upright piano was being eased down
a long flight of stairs by three men
all wearing off-white overalls.
Backward, staccato, two stepped
descending
one
stair
at
a
time
till the taller of the two men
began to collapse in slow
slow slow motion
and the piano
leapt
to the hallway's rising floor
crashing its memories of music:
simple tunes such as 3 Blind Mice,
as well as great meaningful sonatas
of profundity and faraway,
into a scattered anarchic jigsaw
of free-loving volatile
meaningless sounds
fading
till the stricken piano
lost its memory entirely.
After the ambulance arrived (too late)
one removal man lit a cigarette
and sensing the wide-awake stare
of the householder
tapped the grey ash, with great delicacy,
into the cupped hollow of his left hand.
Running Late
Dannie Abse
Praying is another way of singing.
You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.
You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.
Song for Dov Shamir
Dannie Abse
So in the simple blessing of a rainbow,
In the bevelled edge of a sunlit mirrow,
I have seen visible, Death's artifact
Like a soldier's ribbon on a tunic tacked.
Pathology of Colours
Dannie Abse
The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.
Dannie Abse
You have a beautiful classy mind but I find you physically unattractive.
Welsh Retrospective
Dannie Abse
A woman's place is in the house - the House of Representatives.
Bella Abzug
All of the men on my staff can type.
Bella Abzug
As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because
the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.
Bella Abzug
I am not a centrist.
Bella Abzug
I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional
identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.
Bella Abzug
I prefer the word homemaker
because housewife
always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
Bella Abzug
I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.
Bella Abzug
I'm a politician. I run for office. That's my profession.
Bella Abzug
Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of
consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.
Bella Abzug
Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein
get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
Bella Abzug
Our struggle was political, ideological and economic, and we felt we couldn't
make something of ourselves unless we bettered society. We saw the two together.
Bella Abzug
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
Bella Abzug
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
Bella Abzug
They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the
Year of the Woman. Then from 1975 to 1985 they gave us a decade, the Decade of the Woman. I said at the
time, who knows, if we behave they may let us into the whole thing. Well, we didn't behave and here we are.
Bella Abzug
We are affirming human rights for all women and girls, acknowledging the full
range of diversity that exists, and detailing actions to prevent violence.
Bella Abzug
We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the
institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.
Bella Abzug
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
Bella Abzug
When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a
secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.
Bella Abzug
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
Bella Abzug
Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it
clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.
Bella Abzug
Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
Bella Abzug
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
Dean Acheson
Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.
Dean Acheson
Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
Dean Acheson
I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures
what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
Dean Acheson
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
Dean Acheson
If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.
Dean Acheson
It is worse than immoral, it's a mistake.
Dean Acheson
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Dean Acheson
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Dean Acheson
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Dean Acheson
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
Dean Acheson
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
Dean Acheson
The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.
Dean Acheson
The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.
Dean Acheson
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.
Dean Acheson
Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
Dean Acheson
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
Dean Acheson
Great Acquirer - See
Robert Court
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams
After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.
Douglas Adams
Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against
terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
Douglas Adams
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a type of
publishing or broadcasting, because that's what we're used to. So people complain that there's a lot of rubbish
online, or that it's dominated by Americans, or that you can't necessarily trust what you read on the Web.
Douglas Adams
Books are sharks... because sharks have been around for a very long time. There were sharks before there were
dinosaurs, and the reason sharks are still in the ocean is that nothing is better at being a shark than a shark.
Douglas Adams
Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it's still being invented; we're
still trying to work out how it works. There's a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn't
recognise. It's time for the machines to disappear. The computer's got to disappear into all of the things we use.
Douglas Adams
Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.
Douglas Adams
Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to
see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.
Douglas Adams
Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old
woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.
Douglas Adams
Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
Douglas Adams
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a
contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Douglas Adams
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.
Douglas Adams
Hundreds of people who've never written before send in Dr. Who
scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise
is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.
Douglas Adams
I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer
complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.
Douglas Adams
I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
Douglas Adams
I don't think anybody would argue now that the Internet isn't becoming a major factor in our lives. However, it's very new to us.
Newsreaders still feel it is worth a special and rather worrying mention if, for instance, a crime was planned by people over the Internet.
Douglas Adams
I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit
is that the bills get bigger. And that's it. The lifestyle doesn't change.
Douglas Adams
I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.
Douglas Adams
I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even
know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is.
Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Douglas Adams
I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's.
It's almost as if someone else wrote it.
Douglas Adams
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
Douglas Adams
I taught myself to play the guitar by listening to Paul Simon records, working it out note by note. He is an incredibly intelligent
musician. He's not someone who has a natural outpouring of melody like McCartney or Bob Dylan, who are just terribly prolific with musical ideas.
Douglas Adams
I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas... cultures... and systems of
thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom
means than I see much evidence of in America.
Douglas Adams
I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.
Douglas Adams
I think the idea of art kills creativity.
Douglas Adams
I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don't think they're doing art
but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is
knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.
Douglas Adams
I used to be a great fan of doing crosswords. When you're fiddling around with
anagrams, you get wonderful jumbles of syllables that become interesting.
Douglas Adams
I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John
Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.
Douglas Adams
I was the only kid who anybody I knew has ever seen actually walk into a lamppost with his eyes wide open. Everybody
assumed that there must be something going on inside, because there sure as hell wasn't anything going on on the outside!
Douglas Adams
I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
Douglas Adams
I've been trying to... Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to
avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.
Douglas Adams
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the
possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
Douglas Adams
If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror
and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
Douglas Adams
If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
Douglas Adams
In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
Douglas Adams
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Douglas Adams
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
Douglas Adams
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do
it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry I could have thought of that
is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
Douglas Adams
Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams
Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, they keep on being a book. You
can find your place in microseconds. Books are really good at being books, and no matter what happens, books will survive.
Douglas Adams
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is
just not worth the effort for end users, however much fun it is for nerds like us.
Douglas Adams
My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that
they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
Douglas Adams
Of course you can't trust
what people tell you on the web anymore than you can trust
what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who
you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
Douglas Adams
One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no them
out there. It's just an awful lot of us.
Douglas Adams
People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of Hitchhiker's,
and I thought, No, no.
I didn't want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another
thing from a book I'd already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.
Douglas Adams
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
Douglas Adams
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you
may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
Douglas Adams
The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of
the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.
Douglas Adams
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
Douglas Adams
The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
Douglas Adams
The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas Adams
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when
a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
Douglas Adams
The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
Douglas Adams
The usual method of finding a little dongly thing that actually matches a gizmo I want to use
is to go and buy another one, at a price that can physically drive the air from your body.
Douglas Adams
There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more
accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.
Douglas Adams
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly
disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams
There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.
Douglas Adams
This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
Douglas Adams
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas Adams
Time is bunk.
Douglas Adams
To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do
what you want. I think that, in Europe, we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.
Douglas Adams
To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
Douglas Adams
Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices
which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it.
Douglas Adams
We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.
Douglas Adams
We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked
out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often crash
when we tried to use them.
Douglas Adams
What the computer in virtual reality enables us to do is to recalibrate ourselves so that we can start
seeing those pieces of information that are invisible to us but have become important for us to understand.
Douglas Adams
When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile
experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.
Douglas Adams
Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
Douglas Adams
Years and years ago, I did a game based on Hitchhiker's Guide
with a company called Infocom,
which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.
Douglas Adams
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
Douglas Adams
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
Franklin P. Adams
Count that day won when, turning on its axis, this earth imposes no additional taxes.
Franklin P. Adams
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Franklin P. Adams
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
Franklin P. Adams
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Franklin P. Adams
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
Franklin P. Adams
In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women, and Song.
Franklin P. Adams
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin P. Adams
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
Franklin P. Adams
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a
conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Franklin P. Adams
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
Franklin P. Adams
There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
Franklin P. Adams
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
Franklin P. Adams
Too much truth is uncouth.
Franklin P. Adams
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything
to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.
Franklin P. Adams
What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Franklin P. Adams
Years ago we discovered the exact point the dead center of middle age. It
occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin P. Adams
You do not know what you can miss before you try.
Franklin P. Adams
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry Adams
A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.
Henry Adams
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Henry Adams
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry Adams
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Henry Adams
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Henry Adams
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Henry Adams
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
Henry Adams
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Adams
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Henry Adams
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which
lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
Henry Adams
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry Adams
Friends are born, not made.
Henry Adams
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Henry Adams
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not
that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
Henry Adams
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
Henry Adams
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so
difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.
Henry Adams
Intimates are predestined.
Henry Adams
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Henry Adams
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Henry Adams
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Henry Adams
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
Henry Adams
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry Adams
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Henry Adams
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Henry Adams
No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.
Henry Adams
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Henry Adams
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Henry Adams
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
Henry Adams
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Henry Adams
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Henry Adams
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Henry Adams
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Henry Adams
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
Henry Adams
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry Adams
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Henry Adams
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Henry Adams
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Henry Adams
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you
remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
Henry Adams
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
Henry Adams
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or
by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.
Henry Adams
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.
Henry Adams
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Henry Adams
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than
to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Henry Adams
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry Adams
The proper study of mankind is woman.
Henry Adams
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Henry Adams
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Henry Adams
They know enough who know how to learn.
Henry Adams
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
Henry Adams
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
Henry Adams
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows
is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
John Adams
A government of laws, and not of men.
John Adams
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation,
not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams
As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I
long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.
John Adams
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts
long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or
the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams
Fear is the foundation of most governments.
John Adams
Genius is sorrow's child.
John Adams
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
John Adams
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and
ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
John Adams
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in
providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your
ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
John Adams
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
John Adams
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams
I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must
leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.
John Adams
In politics the middle way is none at all.
John Adams
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
John Adams
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams
Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John Adams
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
John Adams
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
John Adams
Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
John Adams
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
John Adams
Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.
John Adams
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.
John Adams
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
John Adams
The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
John Adams
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
John Adams
The happiness of society is the end of government.
John Adams
The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate,
I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.
John Adams
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
John Adams
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson still survives.
Last words of President John Adams.
John Adams
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such
thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
John Adams
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little
better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
John Adams
According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.
John Quincy Adams
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
John Quincy Adams
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
John Quincy Adams
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural
equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.
John Quincy Adams
Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the
soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.
John Quincy Adams
Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if
he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.
John Quincy Adams
I have no predilection for unpopularity as such, but I hold it much preferable to the
popularity of a day, which perishes with the transient topic upon which it is grounded.
John Quincy Adams
In order to preserve the dominion of our own passions, it behooves us to be constantly
and strictly on our guard against the influence and infection of the passions of others.
John Quincy Adams
Is not the brand of double-dealer
stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not
fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage?
John Quincy Adams
It is among the evils of slavery that it taints the very sources of moral principle. It establishes false estimates of virtue and vice: for what
can be more false and heartless than this doctrine which makes the first and holiest rights of humanity to depend upon the color of the skin?
John Quincy Adams
It is of no use to discover our own faults and infirmities unless the discovery prompts up to amendment.
John Quincy Adams
It was the special purpose of Christ's appearance upon earth to bring immortality to light.
John Quincy Adams
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
John Quincy Adams
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
John Quincy Adams
The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the
United States and their people on the one part, and the British king, government, and nation on the other.
John Quincy Adams
The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.
John Quincy Adams
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one
indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
John Quincy Adams
This idea of the transcendent power of the Supreme Being is essentially connected
with that by which the whole duty of man is summed up: obedience to His will.
John Quincy Adams
The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
John Quincy Adams
This is the last of earth! I am content.
John Quincy Adams
To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of
reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.
John Quincy Adams
Where annual elections end, there slavery begins.
John Quincy Adams
A consultant is a person who takes your money and annoys your employees while tirelessly searching for the best way to extend the consulting contract.
Scott Adams
Beware of advice about successful people and their methods. For starters, no two situations are alike. Your dreams of creating a dry-cleaning empire
won't be helped by knowing that Thomas Edison liked to take naps.
Scott Adams
By definition, risk-takers often fail. So do morons. In practice it's difficult to sort them out.
Scott Adams
Consultants eventually leave, which makes them excellent scapegoats for major management blunders.
Scott Adams
Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.
Scott Adams
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.
Scott Adams
Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.
Scott Adams
Executives can get away with having a clean desk. For the rest of us, it looks like you're not working hard enough.
Scott Adams
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.
Scott Adams
Good advertising can make people buy your product even if it sucks ... A dollar spent
on brainwashing is more cost-effective than a dollar spent on product improvement.
Scott Adams
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination.
Scott Adams
If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a
game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.
Scott Adams
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
Scott Adams
Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.
Scott Adams
Let's form proactive synergy restructuring teams.
Scott Adams
My failed corporate career became the fodder for the Dilbert
comic. Once it became clear I would
not be climbing any higher on the corporate ladder, it freed me to mock managers without worrying that it
would stall my career. Most failures create some sort of unplanned freedom. I took full advantage of mine.
Scott Adams
Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
Scott Adams
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of
phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.
Scott Adams
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Scott Adams
One strategy for getting ahead is being incredibly good at a particular skill; you need to be world-class to stand
out for that skill. In my case, I layered fairly average skills together until the combination became special.
Scott Adams
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Scott Adams
Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.
Scott Adams
The best things in life are silly.
Scott Adams
The biggest change in the workplace of the future will be the widespread realization
that having one idiot boss is a much higher risk than having many idiot clients.
Scott Adams
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
Scott Adams
The most important thing when you study hypnosis is that you learn that humans are irrational. Until you understand that, hypnosis is hard to do... For
me, it was this great awakening to understand that humans are deeply irrational, and it's probably the greatest influence on me in terms of my writing.
Scott Adams
The only risk of failure is promotion.
Scott Adams
The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the
only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.
Scott Adams
There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
Scott Adams
There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.
Scott Adams
There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
Scott Adams
We don't always have an accurate view of our own potential. I think most people who are frightened of public speaking and can't imagine they might feel
different as a result of training. Don't assume you know how much potential you have. Sometimes the only way to know what you can do is to test yourself.
Scott Adams
Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.
Scott Adams
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Scott Adams
You don't have to be a person of influence
to be influential. In fact, the most
influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
Scott Adams
See in what peace a Christian can die.
Joseph Addison
He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young, and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.
George Ade
R-E-M-O-R-S-E!
Those dry Martinis did the work for me;
Last night at twelve I felt immense,
Today I feel like thirty cents.
My eyes are bleared, my coppers hot,
I'll try to eat, but I cannot.
It is no time for mirth and laughter,
The cold, grey dawn of the morning after.
George Ade
She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
George Ade
It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast - easy at the beginning, that is. But
the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.
Alfred Adler
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop
Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible.
Next, they say it has been discovered before. Lastly, they say they have always believed it.
Louis Agassiz
A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it. An amateur is a man who can't do his work when he does feel like it.
James Agate
I have never compared myself to my managers ... although I have made some big financial decisions
on my own and decided on new investments, I have never involved myself in managerial decisions.
Gianni Agnelli
In Iran, we don't have homosexuals, like in your country.
Responding to a question about the treatment of gays and lesbians in Iran
during a visit to Columbia University in New York City on September 24, 2007.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
Howard H. Aiken
Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.
Roger Ailes
If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.
KTVI-TV interview on August 19, 2012.
Todd Akin
We could learn from the Pilgrims by understanding that the Bible is
not just a book of how to be nice to people, it is an entire blueprint for the way civilization can be structured.
Todd Akin
To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible.
Zoë Akins
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott
Is it not meningitis?
Louisa May Alcott
Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on a dunghill.
Richard Aldington
Yekaterina Alexeevna - See
Catherine
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a
dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Muhammad Ali
Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!
Muhammad Ali
I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
Muhammad Ali
I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right.
That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.
Muhammad Ali
Man, I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
Muhammad Ali
No, I am not going 10,000 miles to help murder, kill, and burn other people to simply help continue the domination of
white slavemasters over dark people the world over. This is the day and age when such evil injustice must come to an end.
Muhammad Ali
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown
people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?
Muhammad Ali
Change means movement. Movement means friction.
Saul Alinsky
Once I get into hell, I'll start organizing the have-nots over there.
Saul Alinsky
There was no giving up. Trying and trying. That's what I'm all about.
Sonita Alizadeh
Waiting are they? Waiting are they? Well - let 'em wait.
Ethan Allen
A celebrity is one who works hard all his life to become well-known and then goes through back streets wearing dark glasses so he won't be recognized.
Fred Allen
A conference is a gathering of important people who, singly, can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen
A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 a.m. and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 p.m.
to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.
Fred Allen
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen
Condensed milk is wonderful. I don't see how they can get a cow to sit down on those little cans.
Fred Allen
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
Fred Allen
Television - a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
Fred Allen
Television is a new medium, and I have discovered why it's called a new medium - because nothing is well done.
Fred Allen
Was she old? When they lit all the candles on her birthday cake, six people were overcome with the heat.
Fred Allen
Let's give a welcome to Macaca here.
George Allen
A stockbroker is someone who takes all your money and invests it until it's gone.
Woody Allen
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Woody Allen
I recently turned sixty. Practically a third of my life is over.
Woody Allen
It was partially my fault that we got divorced ... I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Woody Allen
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
Woody Allen
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter
hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
Woody Allen
Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast.
Woody Allen
Sex relieves tension - love causes it.
Woody Allen
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen
Ellen Alleyne - See
Christina Rossetti
Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.
Herman Cain's alleged sexual harassment of her client on November 7, 2011.
Gloria Allred
That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist
Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.
B. R. Ambedkar
American Oscar Wilde - See
Oliver Herford
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Henri Frédéric Amiel
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frédéric Amiel
Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.
Henri Frédéric Amiel
Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it ... it knew at once and
sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you.
Kingsley Amis
Amma - See
Amy Carmichael
The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.
Jack Anderson
All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
Julie Andrews
Pierre Andrézel - See
Isak Dinesen
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other
virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou
People will forget what you said
Poeple will forget what you did
But people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Maya Angelou
I hope that's not where we're going, but you know, if this Congress keeps going the way it is, people are really
looking toward those Second Amendment remedies. They're saying: My goodness, what can we do to turn this country around?
Radio interview in January, 2010.
Sharron Angle
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to
have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
Jennifer Aniston
I'm a believer in finding a passion, hard work and definitely not giving up on your dream.
La La Anthony
Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less.
Susan B. Anthony
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.
David Antin
Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father. Monsieur, I beg your pardon.
Marie Antoinette
Rodolfo
Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla - See
Rudolph Valentino
Experience is a great teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Minna Antrim
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.
Minna Antrim
Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel.
George Appel
There's an app for that.
iPhone slogan.
Apple
I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.
Edward Victor Appleton
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Thomas Aquinas
Jose Doroteo Arango Arambula - See
Pancho Villa
One lesson a man learns from Harvard Business School is that an executive is only as good as his health.
Jeffrey Archer
Never sing in chorus, if you want to be heard.
J. F. Archibald
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Elizabeth Arden
The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When
the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.
Sherry Argov
Managers who are skilled communicators may also be good at covering up real problems.
Chris Argyris
Ari - See
Aristotle Onassis
Margot Fonteyn de Arias - See
Margot Fonteyn
Aristo - See
Aristotle Onassis
Any one can get angry - that is easy - or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right
extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.
Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle
Some men are just as firmly convinced of what they think as others are of what they know.
Aristotle
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
Wicked men obey for fear; good men, from love.
Aristotle
The moment when you feel like giving up is right before your breakthrough.
Victoria Arlen
I never doped.
Lance Armstrong
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong
The living need charity more than the dead.
George Arnold
I am past thirty, and three parts iced over.
Matthew Arnold
Francois-Marie Arouet - See
Voltaire
I let previous instances creep up in my thought process sometimes. I think that's where things go awry,
and that's where the walks come in. I'm not giving up many hits, just putting them on base for free.
Jake Arrieta
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
Mary Kay Ash
For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Mary Kay Ash
God first, family second, career third.
Mary Kay Ash
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
Mary Kay Ash
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
Mary Kay Ash
There are two things people want more than sex and money - recognition and praise.
Mary Kay Ash
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
Isaac Asimov
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible
decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac Asimov
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the
World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac Asimov
Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end.
Isaac Asimov
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
Isaac Asimov
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov
She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
Margot Asquith
Am I dying or is this my birthday?
Nancy Astor
You can take it for granted that I am not going to waste any time thinking about
giving up how happy I am at Borussia, in the city of Dortmund, and with this team.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
At last the secret is out, as it always must come in the end,
The delicious story is ripe to tell to the intimate friend;
Over the tea-cups and in the square the tongue has its desire;
Still waters run deep, my dear, there's never smoke without fire.
W. H. Auden
Happy Birthday, Johnny,
Live beyond your income,
Travel for enjoyment,
Follow your own nose.
W. H. Auden
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
I'll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.
W. H. Auden
Will it come like a change in the weather?
Will its greeting be courteous or rough?
Will it alter my life altogether?
O tell me the truth about love.
W. H. Auden
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Augustine
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Augustine
Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
- See
Marcus Aurelius
Caesar Vespasianus Augustus - See
Vespasian
When it comes time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so when their time comes they weep and
pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Aupumut
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Marcus Aurelius
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Jane Austen
Nothing, but death.
Jane Austen
When that glass broke and Stone Cold
was making an entrance, and that roof blew off that building,
that sends you higher than life or anything that I know of. It's an adrenaline rush you can't explain.
Stone Cold Steve Austin
This is not an age of castles, moats, and armor where people can sustain a competitive advantage for very long.
Richard D'Aveni
Whenever you fall, pick up something.
Oswald Avery
Salad. I can't bear salad. It grows while you're eating it, you know. Have you noticed? You start one side of
your plate and by the time you've got to the other, there's a fresh crop of lettuce taken root and sprouted up.
Alan Ayckbourn
Woe betide the man who dares to pay a woman a compliment today ... Forget the flowers, the chocolates, the
soft word - rather woo her with a self-defence manual in one hand and a family planning leaflet in the other.
Alan Ayckbourn
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