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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Speaker: Francis BaconPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
Speaker: Francis BaconPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.
Speaker: Jane AustenPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Speaker: Isaac AsimovPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Speaker: Isaac AsimovPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Speaker: Isaac AsimovPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is possible to fail in many ways… while to succeed is possibly only in one way.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We are what we repeatedly do.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:38 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:36 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep.
Speaker: Woody AllenPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream? Or, what’s worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
Speaker: Woody AllenPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
Speaker: Woody AllenPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better… while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Speaker: Woody AllenPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
Speaker: Woody AllenPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work… I want to achieve it through not dying.
Speaker: Woody AllenPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:14 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Ninety-nine percent of the failures in life are the people who have the habit of making excuses.
Speaker: George Washington CarverPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 4:31 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!