"A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him." (John C. Maxwell)
"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket"
"A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood"
"A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." --Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
"A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions." 
"A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct, but a man of understanding delights in wisdom." 
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." (John D. Rockefeller) 
"A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling." (Arthur Brisbane)
"A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit." (John C. Maxwell)
"A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year." 
"A half-truth is a whole lie." 
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."(Chinese Proverb)
"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them." (John C. Maxwell)
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." (Paul Erdos) 
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." (D. Eisenhower)
"After dark all cats are leopards"
"After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box"
"After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless"
"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." --Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." (Ambrose Bierce)
"All sunshine makes the desert"
"All things good to know are difficult to learn"
"Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest."(Mark Twain)
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." (Oscar Wilde)
"America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week." (Evan Esar)
"An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep."
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." (Winston Churchill)
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." (Einstein)
"Be as radical as reality." (Lenin)
"Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him." 
"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."(Chinese Proverb)
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." (George Eliot)
"Books are children of the brain." (Jonathon Swift)
"But what ... is it good for?" --Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
"By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn"
"Character is much easier kept than recovered." (Thomas Paine)
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak.Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." (Winston Churchill)
"Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself"
"Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends"
"Don't shake the tree when the pears fall off themselves"
"Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence"
"Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm"
"Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water"
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."(James Dean)
"Dreams are the touchstones of our character." (Henry David Thoreau)
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten" (skinner)
"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." (G. M. Trevelyan)
"Enjoy yourself. These are the good old days you're going to miss in the years ahead."
"Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day"
"Every man dies. Not every man lives."(Tim Robbins)
"Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating a part of yourself." Elvis Presley
"Everything I've ever done my entire life has prepared me for what I'm just about to do." (John Bradshaw)
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." --Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
"Examine what is said, not him who speaks"
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley)
"Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald"
"Facts are the enemy of truth." (Don Quixote)
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." (Roosevelt)
"Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free."
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example."(Mark Twain)
"From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn." 
"Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child." 
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." (Napoleon)
"Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path." 
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." (Voltaire)
"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."(Evan Hardin)
"Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names." 
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." (Plato)
"Gratitude is the heart's memory." 
"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." (Hyman G. Rickover)
"Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember." Oscar Levant
"He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go."(Louis L'Amour)
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."
"He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past." (George Orwell)
"He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for."(Moroccan Proverb)
"He who is outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him." 
"He who knows nothing doubts nothing."
"He who must die, must die in the dark, even though he sells candles." 
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison" (Victor Hugo)
"He who says what he likes will hear what he does not like." 
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." --Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." (Napoleon)
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." (H.G. Wells)
"I am a part of everything that I have read." (John Kieran)
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." (Pablo Picasso)
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." (A. J. Liebling) 
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." (Thomas Jefferson) 
"I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have."(Jewel)
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." --The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." (Albert Einstein)
"I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent."(Ashleigh Brilliant)
"I may not believe in what you say, but I will die for your right to do so."(Voltaire)
"I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live." (Francoise Sagan)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." (Frank Lloyd Wright)
"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." --Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind."
"Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything." (Floyd Dell)
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." (Mario Andretti) 
"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." --Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads. 
"If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hindred days of sorrow." 
"If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one."
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it!"
"If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?" (Dolores Huerta)
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." 
"If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of he game, the stakes, and the quitting time." 
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees." Khalil Gibran 
"If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it." 
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." (Derek Bok)
"If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy."
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." (Carl Sagan) 
"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world."(Einstein)
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."(Martin Luther King)
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." (Roosevelt)
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake)
"It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses."(Charles Peguy)
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." (G. B. Burgin) 
"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." (Alec Bourne)
"It takes a genius to whine appealingly."(F. Scott Fitzgerald)
"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."(Goethe)
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."(Helen Keller)
"Knowing and not doing are equal to not knowing at all."
"Knowledge is the power of the mind, wisdom is the power of the soul."(Julie Shannahan)
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." (Jimi Hendrix) 
"Last words are for people who haven't said anything in life." (Karl Marx)
"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." (Confucious)
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom" (Marcel Proust)
"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."(Mark Twain)
"Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved."(Van Kaam)
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."(Helen Keller)
"Life is half spent before one knows what life is."(French Proverb)
"Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way." 
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." (Isaac Asimov) 
"Live out of your imagination, not your history." (Stephen Covey)
"Live with wolves, and you learn to howl." 
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction". --Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
"Love and eggs are best when they are fresh." 
"Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise." 
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds." (Roosevelt)
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."(Abraham Lincoln)
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. " (Socrates)
"Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys." 
"No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power." (Charles Colton) 
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."(Eleanor Roosevelt)
"Nobody ever died of laughter." (Max Beerbohm)
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." (Einstein)
"Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are."(Thoreau)
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." (Henry Ford)
"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team." (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) 
"Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely not achieve the goal if you don't take the shot." (Wayne Gretzky)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) 
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."(Martin Luther King)
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." (Martin Luther King)
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."(Thoreau)
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. " (Soren Aabye Kierkegaard) 
"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."(Jean Jacques Rousseau)
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." (Saint Exupery) 
"Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex." (Karl Marx)
"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." --1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."(Confucious)
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." (Albert Einstein)
"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form." (Karl Marx)
"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." (Roosevelt)
"Silence is the ultimate weapon of power."(Charles deGualle)
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we' ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" --Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
"Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others feel that they have saved me the trouble." (Ashleigh Brilliant)
"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses."(Alphonse Karr)
"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage." (Seneca)
"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." --Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts" Winston Churchill
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."(Napolean Bonaparte)
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon". --Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.
"The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected" 
"The beginning is the half of every action"
"The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live."(Eliot Hubbard)
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better  than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." --A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's  paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
"The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread"
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend"
"The eyes are the window of the soul."
"The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people"
"The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water."
"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want." (Ben Stein)
"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." (Allan K. Chalmers)
"The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it."(Carl Jung)
"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."(William Arthur Ward)
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." (Einstein)
"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."(Chamfort)
"The nice thing about egoists is that they don't talk about other people."(Lucille S. Harper)
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Franklin Roosevelt 
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." (Karl Marx)
"The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own." (Eric Fromm)
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."(Victor Hugo)
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." (Samuel Johnson) 
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." (Martin Luther King)
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." (Gandhi)
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for  investment in the radio in the 1920s.
"The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money." (Karl Marx)
"There are always two choices, two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy."
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." (Mahatma Gandhi) 
"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it." (Mary Wilson Little)
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment  Corp., 1977
"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have." (Don Herold)
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." --Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"This above all: to thine own self be true,And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man."(Shakespeare)
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edgar Allan Poe)
"Those who wish to sing always find a song."(Swedish Proverb)
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." (Jean-Paul Sartre)
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius."(Ralph Emerson)
"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."(Gandhi)
"To see things in the seed, that is genius."(Lao-tzu)
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. " (Igor Stravinsky)
"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value." (Einstein)
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."(Mark Twain)
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it."(William Osler)
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." --Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." (Abigail Adams)
"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."(Nietzsche)
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." (Martin Luther King)
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."(Shakespeare)
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." (gandhi)
"When looking at faults, use a mirror, not a telescope."(Yazid Ibrahim)
"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."(Alexander Graham Bell)
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens."(Helen Keller)
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'" (T. Roosevelt)
"When you become obsessed with the enemy you become the enemy"
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." (George Washington)
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."(Thomas Jefferson)
"When you spend your life worrying about how other people feel, you lose track of how you feel."
"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."(Confucious)
"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right."(Henry Ford)
"While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State." (Lenin)
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
"You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely."
"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you've lost a friend."
"You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough."(Frank Crane)