One truth is clear: whatever is, is right.
- Alexander Pope

The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All great truth's begin as blasphemies.
- Bernard Shaw

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.
- Farley Mowat

It is a hard thing to speak the truth. It is difficult to make hidden forces appear.
- Horqarnoq (Inuit Shaman)

There is nothing to amazing to be true.
- Alan Spragetti

Truth: lie's lie.
- Nicholas Cotanoy

Every dogma has it's day.
- Abraham Rotein

The truth can hurt: be careful with it.
- Anonymous

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
- Anonymous

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
- Josh Billings

Truth may be blamed but can not be shamed.
- English proverb

To deceive a deceiver is no deceit
- English proverb

We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves.
- Goethe

The truth? No, by nature man is more afraid of the truth than of death -- and that is perfectly natural: for the truth is even more repugnant than death to man's natural being. What wonder, then, that he is so afraid of it? . . . For man is a social animal -- only in the herd is he happy. It is all one to him whether it is the profoundest nonsense or the greatest villainy -- he feels completely at ease with it, so long as it is the view of the herd or the actions of the herd and he is able to join the herd.
- Soren Kierkegaard

If you gaze for long into the abyss the abyss gazes also into you.
- Nietzsche

When you look into the abyss, you wonder what you see . . . I wonder that the abyss sees when it looks back.
- Rhodan

If you believe, no proof is necessary; if you doubt, no proof is sufficient.
- Kenneth Woodward

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
- Stalin

Kill one person, you're a murderer; kill a million people, you're a conqueror; kill everybody, you're god.
- Anonymous

She took rejection well -- she ignored it.
- Glen Cook, "The Garrett Files"

The appearance of sincerity counts for more than actual truthfulness.
- Glen Cook, "The Garrett Files"

Open sincerity is harder to bear than friendly laughter.
- Aspin, "Mything Persons"

The question is the answer -- the question is always the answer.
- Barbara Hambly

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon

A person can only feel alone if he has never gotten to know himself.
- Anthropos

To fail to accept the unalterable is insane; to fail to change the intolerable is criminal. You must train yourself to distinguish between them.
- Anthropos

Guilt is a tempting trap for the unwary. It lets you feign responsibility while wallowing in ego.
- Anthropos

The best morality boils down to a simple respect for others.
- Anthropos

If you can't achieve perfection in yourself, how can you expect it in others?
- Anthropos

You can measure the immaturity of a people by the thickness of their law books.
- Anthropos

An open door may tempt a saint.
- English proverb

I hope, for His sake, that God does not exist -- because if He does, He has an awful lot to answer for.
- Phillip K. Dirk

No answer is also an answer.
- Danish Proverb

Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.
- George Bernard Shaw

Faith - belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks, without knowledge, of things without parallel.
- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

We have no rights, only responsibilities.
- Nicholas Monserrat, "The Time Before This"

Water can be both good and bad, useful and dangerous. To the danger, however, a remedy has been found: learning to swim.        
- Democritus

Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will crush you.
- Nikita Khruschev

We did not choose to be the guardians at the gate, but their is no one else.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.
- Thomas Paine

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.
- John Curron

To die we can bear -- but to serve we disdain
For shame is too freemen more dreadful than pain.
- John Dickenson

The measure of a man's true character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
- T. Macaulay

When you come to the edge of all that you know, and are about to step off into the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something sold beneath to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
- Barbara J. Winter

Worry is an abuse of God's gift of imagination.
- Unknown

If you have one true friend, you have more than your share.
- Unknown

That fire liberty . . . which all the powers of ignorance and tyranny can never wholly extinguish.
- James Garfeild

No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.
- John Heywood

If you want happiness . . .
For an hour -- take a nap
For a day -- go fishing
For a month -- get married
For a year -- inherit a fortune
For a lifetime -- help someone else
- Chinese Proverb

What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or god only a blunder of man?
- Nietzsche

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.
- Joan D Vinge, "Psion"

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams.
- W.B. Yeats

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
- Anonymous

Even in heave they don't sing all the time.
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 'Pictures of a Gone World"

History -- the distillation of rumour.
- Thomas Carlyle

Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose.
- Kris Kristofferson

. . . Necessity and chance
Approach me not, and what I will is fate.
- John Milton, "Paradise Lost"

Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson

Character is what you are in the dark.
- Earl MacRouch

In the strict sense, a perfect democracy has never existed and never will. It is against nature that the many shall govern and the few be governed.
- Rosseau

If their existed a nation of Gods, it would rule itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to mankind.
- Rosseau

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- George Bernard Shaw

The end is where we start from.
- T.S. Elliot, "Little Gidding"

In every parting there is an image of death.
- George Elliot

. . . there was a way to hell, even from the gates of Heaven.
- John Bunyan

Democracy seems suitable only to a very little country.
- Voltaire

The love of liberty, with life is given,
and life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
- John Dryden

For what avail the plow or sail,
Or land, of life, if freedom fail?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

By nature men are nearly all alike; by practise they get to be wide apart.
- Confucius

The balance [scale] distinguisheth not between gold and lead.
- George Herbert

I've a grand memory for forgetting.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. the inequality we now discern hath its spring from civil law.
- Hobbes

O, fortune!
Like the moon
ever changing,
rising first,
then declining.
- Carl Orff

Dread destiny and empty fate, an ever turning wheel.
- Carl Orff

The wheel of fortune turns, dishonoured, I fall from grace.
- Carl Orff

And since by fate the strong are overthrown, weep ye all with me!
- Carl Orff

. . . Now conscience wakes despair
That slumbered, -- wakes the bitter memory
Of what he was, what is, and what must be. . . .
- John Milton, 'Paradise Lost"

Men are by nature neither kings nor grandes, nor courtiers, nor millionaires; all are born naked and poor; all are subject to the miseries of life, to chargins, evil, needs, and sorrows of every sort, and finally all are condemned to death.
- Rousseau

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end, it is itself the highest political end.
- Lord Acton

. . . the lion does not defend him self against traps, and the fox does not defend himself against wolves.
- Machiavelli, "The Prince"

Liberty: one of imaginations most precious possessions.
- Ambrose Bierce, "The Cevil's Dictionary"

Build them the ship of death, for you must take
the longest journey, to oblivion.
And die the death, the long and painful death
that lies between the old self and the new.
- D.H. Lawrence, "The Ship of Death"

The human race, such as it is, can not subsist unless their is an infinity of useful men who possess nothing at all; for it is certain that a man who is well off will not leave his own land to come to till yours . . . Equality, therefore, is at once most natural and most fantastic.
- Voltaire

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it's natural manure.
- Thomas Jefferson

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot exist.
- Edmund Burke

The deep, unutterable woe
Which none save exiles feel.
- W.E. Ayton

. . . upon the sea of death, where we still sail darkly, for we can not steer and have no port.
- D.H. Lawrence, "The Ship of Death"

Where all life dies, death lives.
- John Milton, "Paradise Lost"

But say I could repent, and could obtain,
By act of grace my former state; how soon
Would height recall high thoughts, how soon unsay
What false submission swore; ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void --
For never can true reconcilement grow
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deed --
Which would but lead me to a worse relapse
And heavier fall. . . .
- John Milton, "Paradise Lost"

It is a great and dangerous error to assume that all people are equally entitled to liberty. It is a reward to be earned, not a blessing to be gratuitously lavished on all alike . . . not a boon to be bestowed on a people too ignorant, degraded and vicious, to be capable either of appreciating or of enjoying it.
- John C. Calhoun

Those that fight for freedom undertake
The noblest cause mankind can have at stake.
- William Cowper

Married past redemption.
- John Dryden

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell;
And in the lowest deep, a lower deep
Still threatening to devour me opens wide,
To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
- John Milton, "Paradise Lost"

Thou hast not half the power to do me harm,
As I have to be hurt.
- Shakespeare, "Othello"

Giving honour unto the wife, as unto a weaker vessel.
- Bible (Peter 3:7)

With the dead, there is no rivalry.
- T. Macaulay

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde

Equality of rights is natures plan
And following nature is the march of man.
- Joel Barlow.

Of all the plagues a lover bears,
Sure rivals are the worst.
I can endure my own despair,
But not anothers hope.
- William Walsh

In love alone we hate to find
Companions to our woe.
- William Walsh

I knew, and know my hour has come, but not
To render up my soul to such as thee.
- Lord Byron, "Manfred"

Be near me when this sensuous frame
Is rack'd with pains that conquer trust;
And Time, a maniac scattering dust,
And Life, a Fury slinging Flame.
- Tennyson, "In Memorium"

You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
- Shakespeare, "King Lear"

Only he deserves freedom and life
Who daily conquers them anew.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.
- Shakespeare, "Othello"

Look into my face; my name is Might-Have-Been;
I am also called No-More, Too-late, farewell.
- Dante Rosetti.

For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
- John Donne

If you don't defend your honour, people will assume you have none.
- Michael Levine

Power corrupts, but some must govern.
- Stevie Smith

Thou much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now the strength that in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
- Tennyson, "UIlysses"

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
- William Hazlit

From heaven or hell, O Beauty, came you hence?
Out from your gaze, infernal and divine,
Pours blended evil and beneficence,
And therefore men have likened you to wine.
- Baudelaire

I know that sorrow is the one human strength
On which neither earth nor hell can impose,
And that the universe and all time's length
Must be wound into the mystic crown for my brows.
- Baudelaire

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for the good to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Liberty can not be identified with any cause -- except the cause of liberty -- for its whole challenge is for the right to choose between causes.
-R. MacIver

Freedom is an immortal idea, which does not age with the spirit of the times and vanish.
- Thomas Mann

Like liberty, gold never stays where it is undervalued.
- Justin Morrill

You flee, but none pursue.
- Stevie Smith

Why is she weeping? In her lovely pride
She could have conquered the whole race of man;
What unknown evil harrows her lithe side?

She weeps, mad girl, because her life began;
Because she lives. One thing she does deplore
So much that she kneels trembling in the dust --
That she must live tomorrow, evermore,
Tomorrow and tomorrow -- as we must!
- Baudelaire

It is a clear truth that those who everyday barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.
- J. Otis

The very word freedom, in itself and of necessity, suggests freedom from some restraining power.
- Roosevelt

A selfish and greedy people cannot be free.
- Roosevelt

Free people remember this maxim: we may aquire liberty, but it is never recovered once lost.
- Rousseau

To renounce one's liberty is too renounce the quality of being a man, the rights of humanity, and even its duties. No adequate compensation can be made to any person who has renounced it all.
- Rousseau

Our sins are stubborn, craven our repentance.
For our weak vows we ask excessive prices.
Trusting the tears will wash away the sentence,
We sneak off where the muddy road entices.
- Baudelaire

. . . That is love! Before your heart expire,
Let the glory of God set it afire;
That is the true Delight which can not rot!"

Then the Angel, cruel as he was kind,
With giant hands twisted him till he whined;
But the damned soul still answered. "I will not!"
- Baudelaire

Liberty is not a fruit that grows in all climates, and it is not within the reach of all.
- Rousseau

Where there is much liberty, there is much error.
- Fredrich Bon Schiller

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
- Tacitus

Never yet has law formed a great man; it is liberty that breeds giants and heroes.
- F. Von Schiller

Thou inquirest what liberty is? It is to be slave to nothing, to no necessity, to no accident, to keep fortune at arm's length.
- Seneca

Liberty means responsibility. The is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw

The price of liberty is not merely eternal vigilance but also perpetual restraint.
- Lord Joseph Stamp

Be tranquil, O my Sorrow, and be wise.
The evening comes, is here, for which you sought:
The Dusk, wrapping the city in disguise,
Care unto some, to others peace has brought.
- Baudelaire

Ah race of Abel, your fat carcass
Will enrich the reeking soil!

Race of Cain, your hard work is
Not finished in spite of all;

Race of Abel, here your shame lies:
The sword lost to the hunter's rod!

Race of Cain, mount the skies
And down upon the earth cast God!
- Baudelaire

Of what use is freedom of thought, if it will not also produce freedom of action?
- Jonathan Swift

Liberties and masters are not easily combined.
- Tacitus

Why is liberty so rare? Because it is the chiefest good.
- Voltaire

Though leaves are many, the root is one;
Through all the lying days of my youth
I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;
Now I may wither into truth.
- Yeats

I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love . . .
- Yeats

Liberty of thought is the life of the soul
- Voltaire

The pursuit of freedom with an intolerant mentality is self defeating.
- A Whiteheard

I do not care for nature,
She does not care for me;
You can be alone with a person,
You can't be alone with a tree.
- Stevie Smith, "Lulu"

Since there's always going to be corruption, a good government is where you have a manageable level of corruption!
- Mercedes Lackey

Revenge; Timotheus cried, and in that shout
There's all there is about it and about
Between this man and me, whate'er befall
Their is no more to be said at all.
- Stevie Smith, "Revenge"

. . . the Goddess could not spend all her time persuading the Kings and Queens of the idiocy of war. Therefore, she invented tacticians.
- Diane Duane

If I lie down upon my bed I must be here,
But if I lie down in my grave, I may be elsewhere.
- Stevie Smith

Ability is nothing without opportunity.
- Napoleon

The greatest danger that democracy runs is not the intelligence of the people but the tendency of their leaders to uinderrate that intelligence.
- Russel Davenport

Democracy gives every man a right to be his own oppressor.
- James Russel Lowell

Freeing a people from the yoke of democracy is like trying to liberate a drunkard from the damnation of alcohol.
- Gulbrande Lunde

Democracy is an attempt to measure the exercise of political power by the ordinary man's sense of right and wrong.
- Lord Eustace Percy

I trod a foreign path, dears,
The silence was extreme
And so it came about, dears,
That I fell into dream,
That I fell into dream, my dear,
And feelings without cause.
And tears without a reason
And so was lost.
- Stevie Smith

Laughter in deaths shadow fools no one who understands death. But if you are moved to it, be assured the Goddess will smile at your joke.
- Diane Duane

If a general is ignorant of the principles of adaptabiliy, he must not be entrusted with a position of authority. The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man and the stupid man. For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death.
- So Mo Ch'ien, The Art of War

Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Lord Acton

An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
- Arab proverb

So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.
- Peter Drucker

The Goddess' courtesy is a terrible thing. To the mortal asker she will give what is asked for, without stinting, without fail. Or will she stop until the gifts recipient, like the gift, becomes perfect Let the asker beware . . .
- Diane Duane

There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.
- Elbert Hubbard

Liberty is not a luxury to be enjoyed, or a theory to be defined; it is a weapon to be used.
- Robert Jackson

One must be free in order to learn how to use one's powers wisely.
- Immanuel Kant

No amount of political freedom can satisfy the hungry masses.
- Lenin

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
- Lincoln

Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people are fit to be free until they are fit to use their freedom. The notion is worthy of the fowl in the old story, who resolved not to so into water until he had learned how to swim.
- T. Macaulay

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as the abuses of power.
- James Madision

"Are you going to kill me?" said the child to the Dragon.
"Kill you?" The dragon smiled. "Certainly not until we have been introduced." - Diane Duane

Change is not progress.
- H.L. Mencken

To freemen, threats are vain.
- Cicero

"If their was no evil, who would fear Hell?"
- Tad Williams, "The Stone of Farewell"

Luck affects everything.
- Ovid

The general who wins a battle makes man calculations before the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few.
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
- Oliver Goldsmith

Fortune favours the bold.
- Juneval

Of this I am certain that in a democracy the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel of oppression upon the minority.
- Edmund Burke

The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
- Henri Berque

Who, then, is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honour of the world, who relies wholly on himself whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.
- Horace

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom -- they are the pillars of society.
- Ibsen

I tell you true, liberty is the best of all things: never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.
- William Wallace

The key to a crisis is to survive.
- Jordan MacLeod

Some people say "What is life without friends?" I say: "What is life without happiness?"
- Jordan MacLeod

There are no dumb question, only dumb people asking questions.
- Randy Cassingham

All certain tyrant's over souls wish for men they teach is that they should have unsound minds.
- Voltaire

No more vital truth was ever uttered than that freedom and free institutions can not long be maintained by people who do not understand the nature of their own government.
- Woodrow Wilson

. . . was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it?
- John Mill

Every path hath its puddle.
- English Proverb

Many words hurt more than swords.
- Anonymous

The individual is indisputably the original, the first fact of liberty. . . . There is no such thing as corporate liberty. Liberty belongs to the individual or it does not exist.
- Woodrow Wilson

Anger punishes itself.
- Anonymous

For one rich man that is content, there are a hundred that are not.
- Anonymous

Many persons might have attained to wisdom had they not assumed that they already possessed it.
- Seneca

Life, misfortune, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than illustrious heroes.
- Victor Hugo

Optimism is the madness of maintaining that everything is right when it is wrong.
- Voltaire

A wise man reflects before he speaks; a fool, speaks and then reflects on what he has uttered.
- French Proverb

It is perhaps one of life's most interesting ironies that, of the many who beseech the Goddess to send them love, so few will accept it when it comes, because it has come in what they consider the wrong shape, or the wrong size, or at the wrong time. Against our prejudices, even the Goddess strives in vain.
- Diane Duane

We see more clearly what others fail to do for us than what they actually do.
- Anonymous

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scale.
- Aesop

We are afraid of the truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Plumb hell or heaven, what's the difference? Plumb the unknown, to find out something new!
- Baudelaire

One life -- a little gleam of time between two eternities.
- Carlyle

Some are atheists only in fair weather.
- Anonymous

A man of words and not of deeds
is like a garden full of weeds.
- Unknown

Depend upon in, Sir, when a man knows he is too be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
- Samuel Johnson

Adversity reminds men of religion.
- Livy

And that is what evil does: forces us down dark pathways we otherwise would not have trod.
- Denis L. McKeirnan

I challenge you to cite me one instance in all the history of the world where liberty was handed down from above. Liberty always is attained by the forces working below . . . . by the great movement of the people. That, leavened by the sense of wrong and oppression and injustice, brings freedom.
- Woodrow Wilson

. . . it is the way of our living that is testament to our spirits, and perhaps the way we die . . .
- Denis L. McKeirnan

When money speaks, the truth is silent.
- Russian Proverb

Silence is a virtue of those who are not wise.
- Anonymous

Patience is a necessary ingredient in genius.
- Benjamin Disraeli

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
- Roosevelt

He that imagines he hath knowledge enough hath none.
- Anonymous

But if for no other reason, Evil must be destroyed so that we can once more guide our own destinies.
- Denis L McKeirnan

The least desirable possibility will always exert itself when the results will be most frustrating.
- Gunderson's Law

Those who most crave sainthood are most often driven toward hell.
- Anonymous

Perversity is in perception, not in the thing perceived.
- Christopher Stassheff, "Her Majesty's Wizard"

In desperate situations man will always have recourse to desperate means . . . If reason has failed us, their remains always the ultima ratio, the power of the miraculous and mysterious.
- Ernest Cassier

Visit, that you not be visited.
- Anonymous

It is about as hard for a rich man to enter Heaven as it is for a poor man to remain on earth.
- Anonymous

Never fight until your right cannot be questioned; then delay not to strike.
- Christopher Stassheff, "Her Majesty's Wizard"

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
- Woodrow Wilson

Liberty is often a fierce and intractable thing, to which no bounds can be set.
-Woodrow Wilson

Never be too far from arms, for all men have the blood of Cain.
- Christopher Stassheff, "Her Majesty's Wizard"

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
- Emiliano Zapata

The only wealth which you keep forever is the wealth which you have given away.
- Anonymous

To him in vain the envious seasons roll,
Who bears eternal summer in his soul.
- Unknown

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.
- Abraham Lincoln

All time is lost that might better be employed.
- Anonymous

After even the fiercest sunset comes the twilight; and in the twilight, anything is rather more than less likely to happen.
- Diane Duane

Never seek more power than God gives, for he will match it to your tasks.
- Christopher Stassheff, "Her Majesty's Wizard"

Have many acquaintances and few friends.
- English Proverb

. . . the writers function is not without arduous duties. By definition, be can not serve today and those who make history: he must serve those who are subject to it.
- Albert Camus

He that boasteth of his ancestors, confsseth that he hath no virtue of his own.
- Anonymous

The willing contemplation of vice is vice.
- Arabian Proverb

Know yourself, and always question what manner of man you have become.
- Christopher Stassheff, "Her Majesty's Wizard"

Silence is the door between love and fear; and on fears side, there is no latch.
- Diane Duane

Reality is no one's dream.
- Joan D Vinge, "Psion"

Whatever may be said of the Goddess, this much is certain: She enjoys a good joke. For proof of this, examine yourself or any other memeber of the human race closely -- and laugh along with her.
- Diane Duane

Memory is a mirror -- but even the clearest mirror reverses left to right.
- Diane Duane

It is better to have one shilling than to lend twenty.
- English Proverb

A scalded cat fears cold water.
- Unknown

Hope is the poor man's bread.
- Anonymous

All cruelty springs from weakness.
- Seneca

Man's inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn!
- Robert Burns

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
- Corneille

What a day may bring, a day may take away.
- Fuller

A people without faith in themselves cannot survive.
- Chinese Proverb

Those who are happy do not observe how time goes by.
- Chinese Proverb

All men are fools, differing only in degree.
- English Proverb

No answer is also an answer.
- Danish Proverb

Every man complains of his memory, but no man complains of his judgement.
- English Proverb

Call no man happy till he is dead.
- Aeschylus

For he that lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.
- Wilde

We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves.
- Goethe

A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.
- Anonymous

Men would be angels;
Angels would be gods.
- Alexander Pope

Every fire is the same size when it starts.
- Anonymous

More die from gluttony than hunger.
- Anonymous

Kindle not a fire you cannot put out.
- Chinese Proverb

The more one comes to know man, the more one comes to admire the dog.
- Joussenal

It is better to be envied than pitied.
- Herodotus

Of two evils, choose the least.
- Erasmus

When a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps; when he says perhaps, he means no; when he says no, he is no diplomat.
- Anonymous

What is evil? -- whatever springs from weakness.
- Neitzsche

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
- Aristotole

Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
- Neitzsche

Faults are thick where love is thin.
- Anonymous

Cheat me in the price, but not in the goods.
- English Proverb

Many Praised the victory,
Many mourned the slain;
Yet all prayed that nevermore
Would War come here again.
- Denis L McKeirnan

The thief is sorry to be hanged, not to be a thief.
- Anonymous

It is the thief who is hanged, not the one who is caught stealing.
- Czech Proverb

Whoever profits by a crime is guilty of it.
- French Proverb

Our pleasures are shallow, our sorrows are deep.
- Chinese Proverb

Adversity is the trial of courage.
- Anonymous

Little children are little sorrows but great joys.
- Italian Proverb

To reproach a man because his moral sense was corruptible was like blaming him for susceptibility to yellow fever.
- Dainel Boorstren

A good conscience is God's eye.
- Russian Proverb

If an injury has to be done to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
- Neitzsche

The sun shines also on the wicked.
- Seneca

Criticism is easy; art, difficult.
- French Proverb

[The Grand Inquisitor] . . . we care for the weak too. They are sinful and rebellious, but in the end they too will become obedient. They will marvel at us and look on us as gods, because we are ready to endure the freedom which they have found so dreadful and to rule over them -- so awful it will seem to them to be free. But we shall tell them we are Thy servants and rule in Thy name. We shall deceive them again . . . That deception will be our suffering, for we shall be forced to lie.
- Fyodor Dostoyeusky

That which has to be done usually can be done.
- Joan D Vinge, "Catspaw"

When you start at the bottom, there is no way you can sink any deeper.
- Joan D Vinge, "Catspaw"

Let's not be too critical of the tabacco industry. After all, it has found a cure for old age.
- Lloyd Clark

It is so much easier to do good than to be good.
- Anonymous

Make your whole years plans in the spring and your days plans in the morning.
- Chinese Proverb

Customers are precious things; goods are only gross.
- Chinese Proverb

. . . this is as absurd as to compare a surgeon performing a tracheotomy with an highway cutthroat. Both use a knife, perhaps the same kind of knife, both do the same thing, vis. cut the throat of a living man; yet one is a well-doer, the other is a murderer.
- Eugene Zamiatin

It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistaken, even absurd beleifs; so we may fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that the historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths.
- Herbert Huller

Though a tree be a thousand feet high, the leaves fall and return to the root.
- Chinese Proverb

He uses a cannon to shoot a sparrow.
- Chinese Proverb

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Anonymous

It is easier to be accepted by our society as a murderer than as a homosexual.
- Abby Mann.

Perversions of the psychological principle (purgation by scapegoat, congregation by segregation) are the constant temptations of human societies, whose orders are built by a kind of animal exceptionally adept in the ways of symbolic action
- Kenneth Burke

Wisdom consists in knowing one's follies.
- Anonymous

To see a man do a good deed is to forget all his faults
- Chinese Proverb

Adversity makes men; prosperity monsters.
- Anonymous

. . . The gods who haunt
The lucid interspace of world and world,
Where never creeps a cloud, or moves a wind,
Nor ever falls the least white star of snow,
Nor ever lowest roll of thunder moans,
Nor sound of human sorrow mounts to mar
Their sacred everlasting calm . . .
- Tennyson

Without the aid of the divine, man cannot walk even an inch.
- Chinese Proverb

If heaven creates a man, there must be some use for him.
- Chinese Proverb

To follow the will of heaven is to prosper, to rebel against the will of heaven is to be destroyed.
- Chinese Proverb

The imagination gallops while judgement goes on foot.
- Anonymous

Though earth in seas, and seas in heaven were lossed,
We should not lose, we should only be tossed.
Nay, e'en suppose, when we had suffered fate,
The soul could feel in her divided state,
What's that to us? For we are only we
While souls and bodies in one frame agree.
- Lucretius, from "Why Fear Death?"

Do not proud monarchs flinch, stricken in every limb by terror of the gods and the thought that the time has come when some foul deed or arrogant word must pay its heavy, heavy price?
- Lucretius

Years teach more than books.
- Anonymous

Half the harm that is done in this world
Is due to people who want to feel important.
They don't mean to do harm -- but the harm does not interest them.
Or they do not see it, or they justify it
Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle
To think well of themselves.
- T. S. Elliot

Money is a good servant but a bad master.
- Anonymous

To the right-thinking man, to be alone and to be wrong are the same.
- Jean Paul Sarte

Forgive every man's faults, except your own.
- Anonymous

"They question my right to the title of philanthropist," Marat exclaims . . . "Ah, what injustice! Who cannot see that I want to cut off a few heads to serve a greater number?" . . . Naturally -- all historic actions are performed at a price. But Marat, making his final calculations, claimed two hundred and seventy-three thousand heads. But he compromised the therapeutic aspect of the operation by screaming during the massacre: "Brand them with hot irons, cut off their thumbs, tear out their tongues!"
- Albert Camus

Democracy is a government of the people by an elite sprung from the people.
- Maurice Duvanger

Experience and wisdom are the two best fortune tellers.
- Anonymous

He is truly happy who makes others happy.
- English Proverb

It belongs only to great men to possess great defects.
- Unknown

There are no great men, only great circumstances with which ordinary men are forced to cope.
- Admiral Halsey

Friend, if the mute and shrouded dead
Are touched at all by tears,
By love long fled and friendship sped,
And the unreturning years.
O then, to her that early died,
O doubt not, bridegroom, to thy bride
Thy love is sweet and sweeteneth
The very bitterness of death.
- Catullus, 'The Same"

I hate her -- yet I love her too.
You ask how this can be.
I only know that it is true
And bitter agony.
- Catullus, "Love and Hatred"

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.
- Ben Johnson

Democracy is the worst form of government . . .except for all the others.
- Winston Churchill

Patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet.
- Anonymous

Unless your care's exact, your judgement nice
The flight from folly leads but into vice.
- Horace

There are no enemies save those we love . . .
- Propertius

The town is as old as the human race
And it grows with the flight of years,
It is wrapped in the fog of idler's dreams,
It's streets are paved with discarded schemes,
And sprinkled with useless tears.
- W. E. Penny, from "The Town of Nogood"

The town of Nogood is hedged about
By the mountains of Despair.
No sentinel stands on its gloomy walls,
No trumpet to battle and triumph calls,
For cowards alone are there.
- W. E. Penny, from "The Town of Nogood"

Admiration: our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
- Ambrose Bierce

It is easy to govern a kingdom but difficult to rule one's family.
- Chinese Proverb

"I am an atheist, thank God!"
- Anonymous

There is always grief. It is joy that is the rarest thing.
- Guy Gavriel Kay

Do the thing nearest at hand and great things will come to your hand to be done.
- Douglas Malloch

Rattling around in to big a job is worse than filling a small job to overflowing.
- Douglas Malloch

Make the most of what you have and are. Perhaps your trivial, immediate task is your one sure way of proving your mettle.
- Douglas Malloch

"Even this shall pass away"
- Tilton

Art is a kind of illness.
- Puccini

He is rich who is contented.
- Anonymous

Blame yourself as you would blame others, excuse others as you would excuse yourself.
- Chinese Proverb

One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true.
- Chinese Proverb

Once I was pure as the beautiful snow -- but I fell:
Fell, like the snowflake, from heaven -- to hell;
Fell, to be tramped as the filth in the street;
Fell, to be scoffed, to be spit on and beat.
Pleading,
Cursing,
Dreading to die,
Selling my soul to whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread,
Hating the living and fearing the dead.
Merciful God! Have I fallen so low?
And yet I was once like this beautiful snow!

Once I was fair as the beautiful snow,
With an eye like its crystals, a heart like its glow;
Once I was loved for my innocent grace,
Flattered and sought for the charm of my face.
Father,
Mother,
Sister all,
God, and myself, I have lost in my fall.
The veriest wretch that goes shining by
Will take a wide sweep, lest I wander to nigh;
For all that is on, or about me, I know
There is nothing that's pure but the beautiful snow.

How strange it should be that the beautiful snow
Should fall on a sinner with nowhere to go!
How strange it should be, when the night comes again,
If the snow and the ice struck my desperate brain!
Fainting,
Freezing,
Dying alone,
Too wicked for prayer, too weak for my moan
To be heard in the crash of the crazy town,
Gone mad with its joy at the snow coming down;
To lie and to die in my terrible woe,
With a bed and a shroud of the beautiful snow!
- John Wittaker Watson, from "Beautiful Snow"

We learn by teaching
- Latin Proverb

Noble ancestry makes a poor dish at a table.
- Italian Proverb

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, others judge us by what we have already done.
- Longfellow

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
- Lord John Russels

No one has ever repented of having held his tongue.
- Anonymous

No man is worse for knowing the worse of himself.
- Spanish Proverb

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously is every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous. Therefore, if a prince wants to maintain his rule he must learn how not to be virtuous . . . according to need.
- Machiavelli, 'The Prince"

Without me the world cannot exist for a moment. For is not all that us done . . . among mortals full of folly; is it not performed by fools for fools?
- Erasmus

We never get everything we want . . . but sometimes we get what we need.
- Joan D Vinge

If you have trouble forecasting the future correctly, do it frequently and at very short intervals.
- Anonymous

Love thy neighbour, but do not pull down thy fence.
- English Proverb

Don't go through life thinking the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.
- Janet and Greta Podeleski

Until my day comes, nothing can hurt me; when my day comes, nothing can save me.
- Arab Proverb

A translator is a traitor.
- Italian Proverb

At times like this, I cannot affords to make enemies.
- reputedly said by Machiavelli on his death bed when asked to abjure the Devil

For most people, the only one who sees into their soul is God. And most of us wish even God was a little nearsighted.
- Joan D Vinge

Men in general judge more from appearance than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of perception.
- Machiavelli

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.
- Martin Luther

Diet: a short period of starvation preceding a gain of five pounds.
- Janet and Greta Podeleski

As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through Hell.
- Elbert Hubbard

Nothing is impossible to a willing mind.
- Anonymous

The ear is the road to the heart.
- French Proverb

O Crime: with ruin thy road is strewn;
The brightest beauty the world had known
Thy power has wasted, till in the mind
No trace of its presence is left behind.

The loathsome wretch in the dungeon low,
With a face like a fiend and a look of woe,
Ruined by revels of crime and sin,
A pitiful wreck of what might have been,
Hated and shunned, and without a home,
Was the child that played in the streets or Rome.
- Unknown, from "Two Pictures"

One foe is too many, a hundred friends too few.
- German Proverb

Custom is the law of fools.
- Vambrugh

Conscience is the only incorruptible thing about us.
- Fielding

Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell
The tortures of that inward hell.
- Byron (writing about the conscience)

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.
- Plato

To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.
- Lao Tsu

One need first dance to the music before learning to sing the song.
- Norman Spinrad, "Child of Fortune"

He who is the cause of another's greatness is himself undone.
- Machiavelli, "The Prince"

All that wisdom teaches us is that the ability to act is only the power to make things worse.
- Norman Spinrad, "Child of Fortune"

The first allegiance of a teller is to the tale.
- Norman Spinrad, "Child of Fortune"

To open a book brings profit
- Chinese Proverb

There is no high road to happiness or misfortune; every man brings them on himself .
- Chinese Proverb

We always love those who admire us and we do not always love those we admire.
- La Rochefoucauld

The wisest of the wise may err.
- Greek Proverb

He that pities another remembers himself.
- English Proverb

Power seldom grows old at court.
- English Proverb

Love lives in cottages as well as in castles.
- Anonymous

The five truths, terrible and joyous:

What is, is.
What was, is.
Matter is an illusion.
Meaning is an illusion.
The door opens both ways.
Believe none of these!
- Diane Duane

Offer an enemy a false show of hospitality in order to damn him and the fires shall fall on your head, not his, Give him the truth with his meat and drink, and trust it not to sour the wine.
- Diane Duane

God brings man into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them
- Anonymous

The heaviest rains fall on the leaky house.
- Anonymous

A good man makes no noise over a good deed.
- Greek Proverb

It is easy to go from economy to extravagance; it is hard to go from extravagance to economy.
- Chinese Proverb

Words are the voice of the heart.
- Chinese Proverb

The easiest way to dignity is humility.
- Anonymous

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
- Anonymous

Envy never enriched any man.
- Anonymous

There is no mortal whom sorrow and disease do not touch.
- Greek Proverb

Confession of faults makes half amends.
- English Proverb

The friendship of officials is as thin as paper.
- Chinese Proverb

Yellow gold hath its price, learning is priceless
- Chinese Proverb

The wound is healed
by the sword that deals it;

the heart is knit
by the pain that breaks it;

the life is made whole
by the death that starts it;

the death is made whole
by the life that ends it.
- Diane Duane

Even if we study to old age, we shall not finish learning.
- Chinese Proverb

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Syrus

Rejection is the hell he fears
- John Steinbeck

The man on horseback knows nothing of the toil of the traveller on foot.
- Chinese Proverb

Without the media, there would be no terrorism.
- Marshal McLuhan

Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the only true place for a just man is also a prison.
- Thoreau

When you know a man, you know his face, but not his heart.
- Chinese Proverb

A wise man knows everything; a shrewd man, everyone.
- Anonymous

Praise the sea, but keep on land.
- English Proverb

Pray for yourself, I am not sick.
- English Proverb

He has much prayer but little devotion.
- English Proverb

He who has never hoped can never despair.
- Syrus

Fortune favours him . . . in the opposite moment of his death.
- Tacitus

They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.
- Charles-Maurice de Tallleyrand

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your hearts desire. The other is to get it.
- George Bernard Shaw

A short prayer penetrates haven
- English Proverb

Assassination is an extreme form of censorship.
- George Bernard Shaw

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
- George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is ever done until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
- George Bernard Shaw

The trouble with people is not that they know so much, but that they know so much that ain't so.
- Henry Shaw (Josh Billings)

Go, tell the Spartans, thou who passest by,
that here obedient to her world we lie.
- Simonides

Fences have their purpose, but serving as pathways was never one of them.
- Christopher Stassheff

You've got to be careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get their.
- Yogi Berra

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

When you're arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing.
- Anonymous

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Fear nothing but sin.
- English Proverb

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they might not go to yours.
- Yogi Berra

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
- Anonymous

There are three types of people -- those who can count and those who can't.
- Anonymous

He that fears death lives not.
- English Proverb

Fear is stronger than love.
- English Proverb

Happiness is not having what you want. It's wanting what you have.
- Anonymous

Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love.
- Unknown

Chaos itself is the ultimate pinnacle upon which all order is recomplicated.
- Norman Spinrad, "Child of Fortune"

Bureaucracy is a challenge to be conquered with a righteous attitude, a tolerance for stupidity, and a bulldozer when necessary.
- Anonymous

Before the singer was the song.
- Norman Spinrad, "Child of Fortune"

Only when the moment lapses and is gone, can it really be known. Thus the moment is everything, and nothing too.
- Ian Watson

I married beneath me. All women do.
- Lady Nancy Astor, first female MP in the United Kingdom

Extreme love is extreme wrong.
- English Proverb

There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.
- Robert Jordan, "Fires of Heaven"

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.
- Asimov

Memory, prophecy and fantasy --
the past, the future and
the dreaming moment between --
are all one country
living one immortal day.

To know that is wisdom.

To use it is the Art.
- Clive Barker, "The Great and Secret Show"

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.
- Frances Bacon

Who is more foolish -- the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?
- Maurice Freehall

A wolf must die in his own skin.
- Morris L West

So much hope against the sea and loneliness of the hills.
- Morris L West

The hills will still be here and the children will still be here when you are gone. If you want to cry, be done with it now.
- Morris L West

Envy never dies.
- English Proverb

He that will enter into paradise must have a good key.
- English Proverb

. . . our actions show what's in our hearts.
- Bill Watterson, from "Calvin and Hobbes"

The problem with the future is that it keeps becoming the present.
- Bill Watterson, from "Calvin and Hobbes"

The evils we bring on ourselves are the hardest to bear.
- English Proverb

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
- Henry Ford

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
- Mae West

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- Anonymous

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
- Anonymous

There is never time to do it right, but there is always time to do it over.
- Anonymous

You need money to make money.
- Sam MacLeod

Nothing can be made foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
- Anonymous

Of evil grain no good can come.
- English Proverb

If only I had known. I would have been a locksmith.
- Albert Einstein

That which is evil is soon learned.
- English Proverb

Of evil manners spring good laws.
- English Proverb

A man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.
- Unknown (Al Capone?)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein

Stupidity is a personal achievement that transcends national boundaries.
- Anonymous

You will as soon get a fart out of a dead man.
- English Proverb

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Anonymous

Death defies the doctor.
- English Proverb

Death is a remedy for all ills.
- English Proverb

The death of a young wolf never comes too soon.
- English Proverb

Physics is not a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.
- Anonymous

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
- Anonymous

The glass is neither half full nor half empty. It is twice as large as it needs to be.
- Anonymous

To deceive a deceiver is no deceit.
- English Proverb

To deceive oneself is very easy.
- English Proverb

He that deceives me once, shame fall on him; he that deceives me twice, shame fall on me.
- English Proverb

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
- Leonard Rossiter

May education never become as expensive as ignorance.
- Anonymous

Live so that you won't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers

Greed is like a river; the farther it flows, the wider it becomes.
- Amur Proverb

A mans destiny is always dark
- English Proverb

One moment of illumination outweighs an eternity of blind ignorance.
- Ian Watson

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world,
Hope is the dream of the waking man.
- Pliny the Elder

A poem should not mean
But be.
- Archibald MacLeish

Children are the most expensive form of entertainment.
- Mihaela Iosof

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
- Stanislaw Lec

Where none will, the devil himself must bear the cross.
- English Proverb

Fate leads the willing but drives the stubborn
- English Proverb

There is a joy of being
Which you must be still and learn.
- Denis Lee

Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
- A E Houseman

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think:
Looks into the pewter pot
To see the world as the world's not.
And faith, 'tis pleasant till 'tis past:
The mischief is that 'twill not last.
- A E Houseman

Therefore since the world has still
Much good but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure
Luck's a chance but trouble's sure,
I'd face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.
- A E Houseman

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person that you are.
- Anonymous

Forbidden fruit is sweet.
- English Proverb

Don't confuse excellence, which is achievable, with perfection, which is elusive.
- Anonymous

He is so full of himself that he is quite empty
- English Proverb

Genius is the capacity for evading hard work.
- Elbert Hubbard

Creative minds have been known to survive any kind of bad training.
- Anna Freud

Women who want equality with men lack ambition.
- Graffiti

It's okay to make mistakes; at least it shows you're working.
- Ed Mirvish

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.
- Mell Lazarus

The easiest way for your child to learn about money is for you not to have any.
- Kathleen Whitehorn

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
- English Proverb

Where god has his church, the devil has a chapel.
- English Proverb

God help the poor for the rich can help themselves.
- English Proverb

God sends meat and the devil sends cooks
- English Proverb

God send you joy, for sorrow will come soon enough.
- English Proverb

Those who know the least obey the best.
- George Fonquar

The hardest job facing kids today is learning good manners without seeing any.
- Fred Astaire

The road to riches is always under construction.
- Anonymous

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
- English Proverb

Hell will never be full till you be in it.
- English Proverb

Hell is where heaven is not.
- Unknown

Cats were put on earth to remind us that not everything has a purpose.
- Anonymous

When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did -- in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming -- like the passengers in his car.
- Anonymous

To know how to suggest is the greatest art of teaching
- Frederick Amiel

When you have a fight with your conscience and lose, you win.
- Anonymous

I am not young enough to know everything.
- J M Barrie

I am the tooth fairy, I loosen teeth.
- Spencer

Society prepares the crime and the criminal merely commits it.
- Mike Barr

Each individual is a part of society, and indeed he is that society.
- Mike Barr

One of the first duties of the physician is too educate the masses not to take medicine.
- Sir William Osler

It is easy to be wise after the event.
- English Proverb

Trust is the mother of deceit.
- English Proverb

He who trusts not is not deceived.
- English Proverb

God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arm
- English Proverb

A man should preserve his integrity, though he must sell his soul to do it.
- Eric Nicol

I am afraid of the worst, but I am not sure what that is.
- Abraham Rotsein

Is not anger the cleanest of passions?
- Grattan o'Leary

We listen to others to discover what we ourselves believe.
- George Grant

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
- Diefenbaker

To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.
- Lionel Tiger

Idealist: A cynic in the making.
- Irving Layton

Truth may be blamed, but cannot be shamed.
- English Proverb

Statistics are for losers.
- Harry Hayes

Monarchy is like virginity, once lost it cannot be regained.
- Unknown (possibly Andrew Morton, but I am not sure)

Man wants to live. But it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all of his actions.
- Anonymous

It is a great victory that comes without bloodshed.
- English Proverb

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is getting what you need.
- Anonymous

The past must no longer be used as an anvil for beating out the present and the future.
- Paul-Emile Boudras

We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
- John Buchan

Behind every successful man there is a surprised woman.
- Maryon Pearson

If the people have not suffered enough, it is their God-given right to suffer some more.
- William Aberhard

To contemplate suicide is surely the best exercise of the imagination.
- Phyillis Web

You can't drink yourself sober, you can't spend yourself rich, and the power to tax is the power to destroy.
- Colonel Eric Phillips

Time is, time was and time is past.
- English Proverb

We giving all gained all.
Neither lament us nor praise.
Only in all things recall,
It is fear, not Death that slays.
- Rudyard Kipling

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
- George Isles

Some people might as well be crazy for all the sense they have.
- Bob Edwards

The value of experience lies not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
- Sir William Osler

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
- Sir William Osler

In the long run, there is no such thing as a prophet without honour.
- Seguin

Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms.
- English Proverb

Well begun is half done.
- English Proverb

There must somewhere have been an ancient Chinese philosopher who said: "The summit of all human wisdom is to know the exact shade of grey to wear on any particular occasion."
- Sir Robert Watson-Watt

Wisdom is a variable possession. Every man is wise when pursued by as mad dog, fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
- Robertson Davies

The boasts of heraldry, the pomp of power
And all the beauty, all the wealth e'er gave,
Awaits alike th' inevitable hour:
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
- Fray

Better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
- Anonymous

We carry in our very bones the minds of our forebears. No, a nation cannot separate itself from the past anymore than a river can separate itself from its source, or sap from the soil whence it arises. No generation is self-sufficient. it can, and does, happen that a generation forgets its history, or turns its back on it; such an act is a betrayal of history.
- Canan Groulx

Without any paradox I would boldly say that history is the most living of things and there is nothing more present than the past.
- Canan Groulx

There are, of course, many things in Ontario that are more dangerous than wolves. For instance, the step ladder.
- J W Curran

The day the child realises that all adults are imperfect he becomes an adolescent, the day he forgives them, be becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.
- Alden Nowlan

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
- Unknown

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
- Neitzsche

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
- Woody Allen

You can't depend on your eyes when your imaginations out of focus.
- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.
- Queen Juliana of the Netherlands

Time is an illusion. Lunch time doubly so.
- Douglas Adams

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

Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.
- George Bernard Shaw

Genius may have its limitations but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard

War is too important to be left in the lands of generals.
- Georges Clemenceau

There is little to choose between the pen and the sword. Too often, both write in blood.
- Diane Duane

I think I love you
and the problem
is the thinking.
- Diane Duane

The only thing more to be feared than a great desire is that same desire come true.
- Diane Duane

Better the dark under the stone than the sandstorm unexpected.
- Diane Duane

A timely marriage: one made before your children start nagging you about it.
- Diane Duane

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake.
- James Joyce

The picture of the loved,
Long we hold in our heart:
then come home to find
the two have grown apart:

Which to keep and which to kill:
Should there be a doubt?
But how we clip the dead to us
and throw the living out. . .
- Diane Duane

Even the Goddess cannot change the past. But human beings can; and to that purpose she created them.
- Diane Duane

I thoroughly disprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
- Mark Twain

Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.
- Adrienne E Gustoff

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get stuck in jet engines.
- John Renfield

Common sense is not so common.
- Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire

When love is gone, there's always justice And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always mom Hi, Mom!
-Laurie Anderson

Never mistake motion for action.
- Anonymous

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- Euripides

I expect woman will be the last thing civilised by man.
- George Meredith

We find comfort among those who agree with us -- growth among those who don't.
- Frank Clark

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
- Groucho Marx

Anyone capable of getting themselves made president should on no account be allowed to do the job.
- Douglas Adams

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
- Scott Adams

He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
- Harry Fosdick

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage
- Mark Russel

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. if you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
- Bob Wells

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
- Hubert Humphrey

Don't mess up my mess.
- Nancy Townsend

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

What every computer consultant needs to know:
1) In case of doubt, make it sound convincing
2) Do not believe in miracles, rely on them
- Murphy's Computer Laws (Finagle's Rules)

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
- Last words of Poncho Villa

The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.
- Norman Brenner

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
- Russel Baker

Well done is better than well said.
- Anonymous

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
- H H Williams

One does not have a sense of humour. It has you.
- Larry Gelbart

The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.
- George Orwell

When a man tells you he got rich through hard work, ask him: "Whose?"
- Don Marquis

Oh, I don't blame congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
- Lichty and Wagner

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
- Cyril Conolly

Crime does not pay . . . as well as politics.
- Alfred E Newman

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
- Charles Schultz

Why was I born with such contemporaries?
- Oscar Wilde

Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
- Elbert Hubbard

Distance: the only thing the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep.
- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Indecision: the chief element of success.
- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Ultimatum: in diplomacy, a last resort before resorting to concessions.
- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Faith: belief without evidence in something that is told by one who speaks, without knowledge, of things without parallel.
- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, IBM Chairman (1943)

If a mans notions of right and wrong have any other basis other than expediency; if they originated, or could have originated, in any other way; if actions have in themselves a moral character apart from, and nowise dependant upon, their consequences -- then all philosophy is a lie and reason a disorder of the mind.
- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with a kind word alone.
- Al Capone

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
- Anonymous

76.4% of all statistics are meaningless.
- Anonymous

In the early days, all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation, I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.
- Les Claypool

Those who hammer their guns into plows, will plow for those who don't.
- Anonymous

When 25% of the population believe that the president should be impeached, and 51% believe in UFO's, you may or may not need a new president, but you definitely need a new population.
- Harry Reasoner

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything and the young know everything.
- Anonymous

Banks are places that will lend you money if you prove that you don't need it.
- Bob Hope

My past is my wisdom to use today . . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present moment because that is where life resides.
- Anonymous

Most things, excerpt agriculture, can wait.
- Jawaharlal Nehru

I am ashes where once I was fire.
- Byron

Fail to plan, plan to fail
- Anonymous

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has a limit. If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards.
- Anonymous

Here all are noble, save nobility.
- Byron

I wish he would explain his explanation.
- Byron

The weak alone repent.
- Byron

You have ventured deeply,
But all must do so who would greatly win.
- Byron

The Guards die, but do not surrender.
- Peirre-Jauqes, baron de Comronne

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
- Carlyle

To whom nothing is given, of whom nothing can be required.
- Henry Fielding

If a dinosaur can become a hummingbird, all things are possible.
- Ronald Wright (speaking about Evolution)

Revenge proves its own executioner.
- John Ford

Those who say it is better to die free than to live as a slave must think long and truly before they say it.
- Christopher Stassheff

The philosopher told us that eternal vigilance is the price of freedom but he forgot that vigilance must all too frequently end in war.
- Christopher Stassheff

He who swims in sin sinks in sorrow.
- English Proverb

It is useless to plan for the unexpected . . . by definition!
- Alfred Hitchcock

An agent is a vampire with a telephone!
- Robert Aspin, "Mything Perons"

What's wrong with a little harmless crime once in a while?
- M Blaise

History is the essence of innumerable bibliographies.
- Carlyle

Don't become so wise that you are stupid.
- Robert Aspin, "Mything Perons"

In a crisis, I'll try anything however stupid.
- Robert Aspin, "Mything Perons"

The thing you are most afraid of is always the thing that happens -- always.
- Peter S Beagle, "The Innkeeper's Song"

The supreme test of any civilisation is whether it can socialise men by teaching them how to be father's.
- Margaret Meade

But why should honour outlive honesty?
- William Shakespeare, "Othello"

An honourable murderer, if you will,
For naught I did in hate, but all in honour.
- William Shakespeare, "Othello"

You have not half the power to do me harm
As I have to be hurt.
- William Shakespeare, "Othello"

I'm not trying to claim that I am morally perfect, I'm only saying that I'm expensive.
- Mr Rootham (in ENG OA)

I am a brigand, I live by robbing the rich,
I am a gentleman, I live by robbing the poor.
- George Bernard Shaw

To tax and to please, no more than to love and be wise, is not given to men.
- Edmund Burke

Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
- Dotti Walters

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
- Stalin

God didn't create the world in seven days: he pulled an all-nighter on the sixth!
- Anonymous

Ear of mankind
overgrown with nettles
would you hear?

If the voice of the prophets blew
on flutes made of murdered children's bones --
and exhaled airs burnt with
martyrs' cries --
if they built a bridge of old men's dying
groans --

Ear of mankind
occupied with small sounds
would you hear?
- Nelly Sachs, in "O the Chimneys"

That is the great thing about our movement -- that these numbers are uniform not only in ideas, but, even the facial expression is almost the same!
- Adolf Hitler

Familiarity breeds children.
- Unknown

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last.
- Tanith Lee

It's like dega vu all over again.
- Yogi Berra

Only when I have ceased to breath will I be dead.
- Chris Farley, in "The Great White Ninja"

Absence makes the heart grow fonder but it also makes it wander.
- Nancy Townsend

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is probable.
- Descartes

Art ends where violence begins. Violence begins where knowledge ends.
- Anonymous

Attitude, not aptitude, determines altitude.
- Z. Ziglar

The most difficult thing to predict is not the future but the past.
- Russian Proverb

There is a wolf out there, baying for my blood. We must exterminate wolves.
- Stalin (two weeks before his death)

Water can be good and bad, useful and dangerous. To the danger, however, a remedy has been found: learning to swim.
- Democritus

In combat there is no sanity, only useful ways of being insane.
- Jack Cady

I think that we're all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better.
- Stephen King, "Danse Macabre"

If you believe, no proof is necessary; if you doubt, no proof is sufficient.
- Kenneth Woodward

It isn't what teenagers know that worries their parents, its how they found out!
- Anonymous

In such dangerous things as wars, the errors which proceed from a spirit of benevolence are the worst.
- von Clausewitz

Defeat will only make us dead, not honourable.
- Barbara Hambly

God protect us from what we may one day get used too.
- Barbara Hambly

A man should go to jail for his beliefs at least once.
- Nicholas Monsarrat, "The Time Before This"

The first requisite of the genius is sheer ruthlessness.
- Brian Moore

Certainy and faith do not belong together.
- David Gemmel

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.
- Terry Pratchett

. . . at least the way was clear now. When you step off a cliff, your life takes a very definite direction.
- Terry Pratchett

Chaos always defeats order because it is better organised.
- Terry Pratchett

Imagination is a quality given to a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour is provided to console him for what he is.
- Anonymous

Running into debt isn't so bad, its running into creditors that hurts.
- Anonymous

I can resist anything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde

When you know what to do when their is something to be done -- that's tactics. When you know what to do when their is nothing to be done -- that's strategy.
- Melanie Rawn

To escape criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
- Jean Coteau

Only when the power of love overcomes the love of power will the world know peace.
- Anonymous

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate. The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
- Faulkner

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
-Unknown

It is easier to be long than short.
- Samuel Butler

It will be lonely to be dead, but it cannot be much more lonely that is it to be alive.
- Joan D Vinge, "Tin Soldier"

. . . there is nothing new under the sun. But there are always new ways of looking at it, and always other suns.
- Joan D Vinge, "Tin Soldier"

. . . if one always listened to the voice of reason, one would never do anything interesting.
- Zelazny and Sheckley

The bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also our enemies -- probably because they are generally the same people.
- Anonymous

He who leaves all things to chance makes a lottery of life.
- Anonymous

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
- William Blake

Go the extra mile. It's never crowded.
- Executive Speechwriter Newsletter

None of us is as smart as all of us.
- Phil Condit

Home is an invention which no one has yet improved.
- Ann Douglas

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.
- David Eddings, "King of the Murgos"

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.
- Michael Cibenko

Childhood is measured out by sound and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
- John Betjemen

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
- Lillian Hellman

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what they are talking about.
- Sam Ewing

When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to a quest for power.
- Alston Chase, "In a Dark Wood"

Tattoo - permanent proof of temporary insanity.
- Wise and Aldrich

Coincidences throw open a skylight to a universe more mysterious and mischievous than we dare imagine. They tune our ear to the sound of cosmic laughter.
- Sylvia Fraser

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends on whether you are at the right end of the wrong end of the gun.
- Anonymous

Diplomacy - Letting someone else have your way.
- Lester B Pearson

Culture is not satisfied 'till the raw and unkindled masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.
- Mathew Arnold

I am an optimist despite the evidence.
- Ivana Elbl

Treason doth never prosper: whats the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
- Sir John Harrington

The appearance of an answer does not mean there is an answer.
- Ivana Elbl

Do as you must for your conscience will not allow you to do otherwise.
- Martin Luther

Remember as you go through life that their are only two things worth knowing. The first is too complex for you to understand and the second is that life is an arbitrary series of often meaningless events, and the only way for you to make sense of life is to forget that you know this.
- George F Walker

"Doom" is the guys equivalent of "Chicken Soup for the Soul."
- Pat Brown

. . . she had enough experience now to make her plans around pessimism rather than hope.
- Mercedes Lackey

Well, in the void where a great tree fell, little trees could climb to reach the sun.
- Mercedes Lackey

The cautious seldom err.
- Confucius

If there was one virtue he possessed, it was patience, for patience was the only virtue that eventually brought rewards.
- Mercedes Lackey

There are only three classes of people who can afford to speak the unvarnished truth -- the very bottom, the very topmost, and children.
- Mercedes lackey

Love, like a cough, cannot be hid.
- Anonymous

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more
Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.
- John Milton, "Paradise Lost"

He who requires much of himself and little from others will keep himself from being the object of envy.
- Confucius

He who has not faith in others shall find no faith in them.
- Lao Tzu

Forgive servants (or friends) when they offend you. Do not forgive them when the offend others.
- Chen Chiju

He who has never tasted the bitterness of life has never know the sweetness of it all.
- Anonymous

When thoughts arise, then do all things rise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.
- Huang Po

If a great ruler were to acknowledge and follow your advice, be perfectly satisfied. If no one should heed your advice, be the same.
- Mencius

What truly is within shall be manifested without.
- The Great Learning

Everything in the past died yesterday, everything in the future was born today.
- Anonymous

Our bodies are the creation of our minds.
- Chih Kung

When men do not forget what should easily be forgotten, and forget what is not easily forgotten . . . we have a case of real oblivion.
- Chang Tzu

The wise not thinking become foolish, the foolish not thinking become wise.
- Shoo King

The great end of learning is nothing else but to seek for the lost mind.
- Mencius

Ultimate realisation means being free from realisation and the absence of realisation.
- Hui Hai

To see through fame and wealth is to gain a little rest, to see through life and death is to gain a big rest.
- Tut-tut

The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he had put his first lesson into practise.
- Tzu Lu

Personal talent coupled with slow temper becomes great talent; wisdom coupled with pacifist min becomes great wisdom.
- Lieh Tzu

You would know politics? Read history!
- Anonymous

Tzu-King asked what constituted the superior man. The Master said, "He acts before he speaks, and afterwards speak according to his actions."
- Confucius

If the one in authority is not enlightened, one can know that those beneath him are in the dark.
- Anonymous

"Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (to his orchestra)

Let the official who has time to spare spend it in study; let the student who has time to spare devote it to public affairs.
- Tzu Hsai

A superior man moved with his lips, a common man moves with his fists.
- Anonymous

A moment's forbearance will preserve your person.
- Inscription on a sword

Store force like drawing a bow, issue force like shooting an arrow.
- Wa Te-seong

A strength of one thousand pounds can be repulsed by four ounces.
- Anonymous

The evil of man is that they like to be teachers of others.
- Mencius

He is a good judge of man who corrects what he hears by what he sees. He who is not a good judge of men corrupts what he sees by what he hears.
- Tut-tut

He who advances may fight, but he who retreats may take care of himself.
- Anonymous

Those who despise money end up sponging on their friends.
- Chang Chao

Not even the cleverest doctors can save themselves.
- Anonymous

He who makes excuses accuses himself.
- French Proverb

It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
- Lucy M Montgomery

Sarcasm is the last refuge of a defeated wit.
- Anonymous

Plants surpass man in recognising spring.
- Anonymous

The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity.
- Stuart Lumon Seaton

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
- Pablo Casals

Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done.
- Louis D Brandeis

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
- Benjamin Franklin

Are you going places or just being taken?
- H F Heinrichs

In similar waters, similar fish are found.
- Ruysch

Without our cares, our joys would be less lively.
- Catherine P Trail

Communication is a process of sharing experience 'till it becomes a common possession.
- Josh Dewey

Ideas are the very coinage of your brain.
- William Shakespeare

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
- Anonymous

Genius is initiative on fire.
- Holbrook Jackson

Society is no comfort to one not sociable.
- William Shakespeare

The city has a face, the country has a soul.
- Jaques DeLocrettelle

Wisdom is the art of seeing things invisible.
- Jonathan Swift

Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.
- Thomas Fuller

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Anonymous

Where you come from is not nearly as important as where you are going.
- Anonymous

The opposite of talking is not listening, the opposite of talking is waiting.
- Fran Lebowitz

Two voices are there; one is the sea, one is the mountains, each a mighty voice.
- William Woodsworth

If the very old will remember, the very young will listen.
- Chief Dan George

Dreams are necessary to life.
- Anais Nin

Patience is the best of all instructors.
- Pubilious Syrus

Where their is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
- Charles F Kettering

The future is today.
- William Osler

The doctrine of the absence of the mind is wrong. Instead we should say the absence of the selfish mind.
- I-Ch'uan

The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni

Mind has no colour, such as green or yellow, red or white; it is not long or short; it does not vanish or appear; it is free from purity and impurity alike; and its duration is eternal. It is utter stillness.

Such is the form of our original mind, which is also our original body.
- Hui Hai

I think it would be a good idea.
- Mahatma Ghandi (When asked what he thought of Western Civilisation)

Those who dream of the pleasures of drinking may in the morning wail and weep, Those who dream of wailing and weeping may in the morning be going to hunt. When they were dreaming they did not know it was a dream; but when they awoke they knew it was a dream.

Thus it is said that there is a Great Awakening, after which we shall know that this life was a great dream, all the while the stupid people think they are awake.
- Chang Tzu

Be not like those who are ruled by their passions and desires.
- She King

As soon as the mouth is open, evil springs forth. People either neglect the root and speak of the branches, or neglect the reality of the "illusionary" world and speak only of enlightenment.
- Huang Po

Hell is paved with good samaritans.
- William H Holden

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, and suffering is the blessing of the New Testament.
- Francis Bacon

One should always begin with friendship, rather than a more ardent emotion. The former will last, if the latter does not.
- Mercedes Lackey

I do believe in encouraging those of lesser ability, but I think that appointing a congenital idiot to a Council seat is going too far.
- Mercedes Lackey

I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- Voltaire

Each mans freedom is limited by that of his neighbours.
- Dag Hammarsskjold

No one has ever dared to claim that the causes of warfare and the sources of prejudice are ever rational.
- Mercedes Lackey

It is always a good policy to speak the truth -- unless you happen to be an exceptionally good liar.
- Jerome K Jerome

There is a curious prophecy about this child: she is destined to bring about the end of destiny.
- Phillip Pullman, "The Golden Compass"

"We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not," said the witch, "or die of despair."
- Phillip Pullman, "The Golden Compass"

Everything that can be invented, has been invented.
- Charles H Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

Nothing, however, is inevitable and very few things are even predictable.
- David Frum

Numbers mean nothing. It is worth that counts.
- Sundiata

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I was two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
- Abraham Lincoln

Griots know the history if kings and kingdoms and that is why they are the best councillors for kings,. Every king wants to have a singer to perpetuate his memory, for it is the griot who rescues the memories of kings from oblivion, as men have short memories. Kings have prescribed destinies just like men, and seers who probe the future know this. They have knowledge of the future, whereas we griots are depositories for the knowledge of the past. but whoever knows the history of a country can read its future.
- D T Niane ( from the "Oral story of the Malinkes")

Things usually become cliched precisely because there's a grain of truth in them.
- Mercedes Lackey, "Magic's Price"

I mistrust perfection. I keep waiting for something to go wrong.
- Mercedes Lackey, "Magic's Price"

"Is power not freedom?" the cat asked Catseye.
"No."
- Will Shetterly, "Why Cats Have No Lord"

All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the earth
Befalls the sons of the earth.
Man did not weave the web of life.
He is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web,
He does to himself.
- Chief Seattle, 1854.

One is as subtle as rape.
- Will Shetterly, "Why Cats Have No Lord"

Begin at the beginning, and go till you come to the end: the stop.
- Lewis Carrol

Every process is partially or totally inferred with by chance,
- Carl Gustavus Jung

The minister had not set out to be a traitor. He had merely put his ambitions before his integrity, and circumstances had done the rest.
- Victor O'Reilly, "Games of the Hangman"

Suicide is about alienation. There are other ways to show society you're pissed off. And there is a lot about our society to piss people off.
- Victor O'Reilly, "Games of the Hangman"

Before, I fought purely for money. Now I have higher ideas. I fight for democracy and money.
- Victor O'Reilly, "Games of the Hangman"

"What does democracy mean to you?" ...
"Freedom to make more money."
- Victor O'Reilly, "Games of the Hangman"

It came to him that if you are the kind of person who turns over stones -- and most people learn not to early in life -- what comes crawling out can be disconcerting.
- Victor O'Reilly, "Games of the Hangman"

There are no coincidences. We think they're coincidences because our model of the world doesn't account for them. We're tied up in cause and effect.
- Carl Jung

The distance is nothing. It is the first step that is difficult.
- Marquise de Deffand (concerning the legend that St Denis, carrying his head in his hands, walked two leagues)

Innocence has novelty, but experience has performance.
- Victor O'Reilly, "Games of the Hangman"

There were too many people wanting to much in too small a space. Really, killing a few people was for the long term good. Mother mature needed some supporting firepower. He decided to give some money to Greenpeace, too. He had no desire to spend his retirement building up his radioactivity level so that he could read at night by the glow. besides, he liked whales.
- Victor O'Reilly, "Games of the Hangman"

Nature abhors equilibrium.
- Ivanna Elbl

Nature abhors an ideological vacuum as much as it does any other kind.
- Victor O'Reilly, "Games of the Hangman"

"If everyone minded there own business," said the Duchess with a hoarse growl, "the world would go around a great deal faster than it does."
- Lewis Carrol

It is better to be a small shrimp on the sea of faith than a dead whale on the beach.
- Margaret Craven.

There were two kinds of naiveté, one not even aware of the problems, and another which had knocked on all the doors of knowledge and knows man can explain little, and is willing to follow his convictions into the unknown.
- Schweitzer

History doesn't teach us a damn thing. Historians teach us.
- J Driscoll

Does the bow fear the arrow?
- Crawford Killian

" . . . if I held you by your heels from a third-story window, you would have a problem." . . .
:"I do not think so. If you saved me, all would be well. If you dropped me, nothing would matter. It is you who has the problem."
- Margaret Craven, "I Heard an Own Call my Name"

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridges to cross and which to burn.
- David Russel

The reward of suffering is experience.
- Aeschylus

There was pride in his eyes without arrogance. Behind the pride was a sadness do seep it seemed to stretch back to ancient mysteries Mark could not even imagine, and he felt a small thrill of fear, or anticipation, which a man knows if he's lucky enough to meet and recognise his challenge.
- Margaret Craven, "I Heard an Own Call my Name"

He did not know that when he turned back in his own eyes was the depth of sadness which he had begun to understand.
- Margaret Craven, "I Heard an Own Call my Name"

The city of Cork, Ireland's second largest, had been sacked, burned, pillaged, looted and destroyed so often since its foundation in the sixth century by St Finabar that now it seemed laid out with the primary objective of stopping any invader in his tracks.

Its traffic problem was impressive in its turgid complexity, and on a dark,, wet March evening it had reached a pinnacle of congestion that was a tribute to the ingenuity of its corporation's planning committee.

Fitzduane had a manic private theory that the reason the city's population had expanded was that none of the inhabitants could get out, and so they stayed and become traders, or lawyers or pregnant, or both and conversed in a strange singsong that sounded to the uninitiated like a form of Chinese but was, in fact, the Cork accent.

Fitzduane actually quite liked Cork, but he could never understand how a city that stood astride one river could have so many bridges -- all, apparently, going in the wrong direction In addition, there seemed to be more bridges than during his last visit, and some seemed to be in different locations. Maybe they were designed to move silently in the dead of night. Maybe the reason the British had burned the city -- yet again -- in 1921 was just to find a parking space.
- Victor O'Reilly, "Games of the Hangman"

"Many of my customers are fished out of the river," said Buckley. "Cork people do so like to drown themselves. We had so many drownings last year that one of the mortuary attendants suggested building a special quay for suicides and supplying them with marker buoys and anchors."

"I guess it's the parking problem," said Fitzduane
- Victor O'Reilly, "Games of the Hangman"

How many men of England died to prove they were not dead?
- G K Chesteron (0n the English who died in the Great War)

Your daughter in your enemy's camp is your enemy.
- Crawford Killian

Hope was a weapon she had not expected him to use against her.
- Tara K Harper, "Lightwing"

The key to magic is magic; to be a mage you must be a mage.
- Barbara Hambly, "Dragonsbane"

Since I'm burning all by bridges, it would be nice to know which side of the river I'll end up on when the smoke clears.
- Tara K Harper, "Lightwing"

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
- Barbara Hambly, "Dragonsbane"

Do you cling to the little joys because you are afraid to taste the great ones, Jenny Waynest?
- Barbara Hambly, "Dragonsbane"

They said that dragons did not entrap with lies but with the truth, and she knew he had read accurately the desire of her soul.
- Barbara Hambly, "Dragonsbane"

The key to magic in not magic, but the use of magic; it lay not in the having, but in the giving and doing -- in loving and in being loved.
- Barbara Hambly, "Dragonsbane"

What man has created, man can destroy, and bring to light that day of joy.
- Anonymous

What you feel is the love of humans, and that is a poor trade for the power that the touch of your mind gave me. It is what I first learned from John -- both the pain and the fact that to feel it is better than not to be able to feel.
- Barbara Hambly, "Dragonsbane"

We change what we touch, be it magic, power or another life.
- Barbara Hambly, "Dragonsbane"

Grief closed her throat, the grief of roads untaken, of doors not opened, or songs unsung -- the human grief of choice.
- Barbara Hambly, "Dragonsbane"

Having so little, we share among ourselves to make any of it worth having. We do what we do because the consequences of not caring enough to do it would be worse.
- Barbara Hambly, "Dragonsbane"

Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle

You do not know yourself; how then can I tell you things you may otherwise wish to know?
- David C Smith, "Master of Evil"

I speak the truth, Prince Elad. Listen with more than your ears.
- David C Smith, "Master of Evil"

O gods, die with us, do not survive us!
O crimes, where are your promises?
O mother's sins, find the door in the fallen ruins!
- David C Smith, "Master of Evil"

I speak for the gods, the gods do not explain. You must explain for yourself. All is not what it seems; what things seem is not all. It is not the mirrors reflection that is real, but what it reflects. It is not the sword that slays, but the man behind it. It is not the wall that weakens, but those behind who do not repair it. The tree that stands in the forest reaches for the sunlight but cannot live without its roots. Temper your sword, Prince Elad. Nourish your roots. See beneath your mirror.
- David C Smith, "Master of Evil"

Deep, where unending pain causes an end to pain -- low, where the ceaseless cries reduce themselves to whispers -- soft, where torment finds knowledge . . .
In the hall of darkness where there is no light, no light, no light . . .
. . . a light will grow . . .
. . . to make the darkness darker still . . .
- David C Smith, "Master of Evil"

Shall I tell you the future holds only truth, Prince Elad?
- David C Smith, "Master of Evil"

O Time, your face his human.
O Death, your name is man.
O Humanity, reducing strong elements to dust, your name is blown on a tempest, you frighten the stars, you are ever young, but old, and ignorant as some force of nature.
- David C Smith, "Master of Evil"

Trapped on earth, trapped by hope and memories, where is our answer, if not within ourselves?
- David C Smith, "Master of Evil"

He is the vessel, and he is all the vessel contains.
- David C Smith, "Master of Evil"

"I did not want this. Not this life -- not this pain. There is a limit to what humanity can endure."
"You'd think there must be."
- David C Smith, "Master of Evil"

These things that come, they come with cause.
- David C Smith, "Master of Evil"

You are becoming your destiny, O man. You are the chosen, the vessel, the being, the embodiment of the last days. Demand that shadows bow before you and mountains bend in praise, for you are becoming your destiny, O man beyond men, O Prince of Darkness, Master of the Hell of Men!
- David C Smith, "Master of Evil"

"These pains have come, so awesome, because we have refused our deep secret, and we cannot share or understand what we refuse.
"Orain, live with this -- I go with this -- the gods are within us. We are the gods We are their masters, and we are very poor masters, poor masters indeed, of the gods and of ourselves . . .
- David C Smith, "Master of Evil"

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr

Without contraries, there is no progression.
- William Blake

If poems do not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, they should not come at all.
- Keats

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
- Pearl S Buck

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
- Syndey J Harris

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire

Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them.
- Alexandre Ledru-Rollin

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because they want to do it.
- Dwight Eisenhower

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.
- John C Maxwell

Television is called a medium because it is neither rare nor well done.
- Ernie Kovaes

Recently I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who had made a mistake costing the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,00 training him. Why would I want someone to hire his experience?
- Thomas Watson

No man means all he says, yet few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is vicious.
- Henry Adams

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.
- Alexandre Jablokov

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus

Virtue is insufficient temptation.
- George Bernard Shaw

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
- Thomas Jefferson

Human rights begin with breakfast.
- Leopold Senghor

"One man one vote" is meaningless unless accompanied by the principle of "One man one bread."
- Anonymous

Life does not cease to be funny when people die anymore than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
- George Bernard Shaw

A lifetime of happiness! No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw

Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
- Blaise Pascal

We should be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence. -- on pain of liquidation.
- George Bernard Shaw

In the long run, we are all dead.
- John Maynard Keats

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius

Architecture is frozen music.
- Goethe

The factory of the future will have to employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
- Warren Benis

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Darkwind is fully human, You are not. You are clever, intelligent, resourceful, but you are not human. Therefore you must appear to be better than humans.
- Mercedes Lackey

If the world saw a beast -- the world would kill a beast. It was not fair, but very little in Nyara's life had ever been fair. At least this was understandable. Predictable.
- Mercedes Lackey

Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.
- Horace

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
- Edmund Burke

If I have seen father than other men, it is because I have stood on the shoulder's of giants.
- Issac Newton

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 faraway.
- Thoreau

There is no god.
But it does not matter.
Man is enough.
- Edna Milay

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
- Kelvin Throop III

If you choose not to decide -- you still have made a choice.
- Neil Pert

I haven't a clue as to how my story will end. But that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don't conclude that the road has vanished . . . how else could we discover the stars?
- Unknown

These days the wages of sin depend upon what kind of deal you make with the devil.
- Kars Vichko

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
- Anonymous

No man is an island, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the continent, a part of the maine . . . any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
- John Donne

If triangles had a God, He'd have three sides.
- Old Yiddish Proverb

Don't wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day.
- Albert Camus

Man will not be free until the last king has been strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
- Denis Diderot

If there was no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
- Voltaire

Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sarte

If their is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult that religion.
- Goncourt

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem that it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
- David Freidman

Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.
- Unknown

Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
- Winston Churchill

Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein

All the miseries of life stem from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.
- Blaise Pascal

Against boredom, even the gods contend in vain.
- Neitzsche

I believe in Christianity as I believe in the sun -- not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
- C S Lewis

Every man alone is sincere; at the entrance of a second man hypocrisy begins.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith but through striving after rational knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Even in the presence of others, he was completely alone.
- Robert Persig

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies, for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
- Thomas De Quincy

Language has created the world loneliness to express the pain of being alone and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
- Paul Tillich

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King Jr

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Ghandi

Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty to all things. You can not do more. You should not wish to do less.
- Robert Lee

He who has lost honour can lose nothing else.
- Publilius Syrus

Dignity does not consist of possessing honours, but of deserving them.
- Aristotle

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.
- Elbert Hubbard

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
- Herman Hesse

The strongest man on earth is he who stands alone.
- Henrik Ibsen

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bed of a child deathly sick.
- Coleridge

Everything has been figured our, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Satre

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a spark in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung

The liberty of man consists solely in this: that he obeys natural laws because he has himself recognised them as such, and not because they have been externally imposed on him by any extrinsic will whatever, divine or human, collective or individual.
- Mikhail Bakunin

Without music, life would be a mistake.
- Neitzsche

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who weeps: he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Neitzsche

Music is a higher revelation than philosophy.
- Neitzsche

Man is condemned to be free, because once thrown into this world, he is responsible for everything he does.
- Jean-Paul Satre

There is no reality except the one contained within me.
- Herman Hesse

The heart has its own reason which reason does not know.
- Blaise Pascal

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
- Fydor Dastoeusky

Woman was God's second mistake.
- Neitzsche

People might die, but the world went on. One had to be philosophical. People killing each other was not globally threatening, like destroying the ozone layer. It was actually quite normal. But it was inconvenient for those involved.
- Victor O'Reilly, "Rules of the Hunt"

Power abhors a vacuum.
- Victor O'Reilly

The best eulogies, now that he thought about it, were delivered at weddings, retirements, firings, and funerals. It was a depressing observation about the human condition. And did weddings really belong in this group of essentially negative transitorial occasions. He thought they did -- although undoubtedly most participants regarded themselves as exceptions.
- Victor O'Reilly, "Rules of the Hunt"

Duas uncias in pacta mortalis est.
(Two inches in the right spot is fatal.)
- Roman saying about why using a sword as a thrusting weapon is better than using it as a stabing weapon

My father was a politician and the son of a politician. This makes a joke of democracy but is not so unusual.
- Victor O'Reilly, "Rules of the Hunt"

It had come down to an elemental reality: Destroy or be destroyed.
- Victor O'Reilly, "Rules of the Hunt"

Reality was an empty apartment.
- Victor O'Reilly, "Rules of the Hunt"

Cover-ups were not confined to Watergate. In the real world of big government and big business, they were the norm. Exposure was an exception. The price was just a cost of doing business.
- Victor O'Reilly, "Rules of the Hunt"

You shut out the sadness and you did what had to be done, and only afterwards did you weep. That was the way of it. There was no other.
- Victor O'Reilly, "Rules of the Hunt"

Seeing people get blown apart is a great stress reliever.
- J. David Caldwell

Then Hitler must have been under a lot of stress.
- Stacey Ste. Marie

Most of the world is lonely corners.
- Dean Koontz, 'Tick Tock"

Nowhere is safe unless you want it to be.
- Dean Koontz, 'Tick Tock"

This was America, damn it, where you could solve any problem with a screwdriver and a wrench, or with a computer, or with fists and a handgun, or at worst with the help of a therapist and a twelve-step program to effect personal enlightenment and change.
- Dean Koontz, 'Tick Tock"

Reality is perception. Perception change. Reality is fluid. So if by "reality" you mean reliably tangible objects and immutable events, then there's no such thing.
- Dean Koontz, 'Tick Tock"

Whatever you expect is what will be, so simply change your expectations.
- Dean Koontz, 'Tick Tock"

Sometimes enlightenment came only when it wasn't sought or welcomed.
- Dean Koontz, 'Tick Tock"

Is any of us really anything?
- Dean Koontz, 'Tick Tock"

We're anything in the sense that we are everything.
- Dean Koontz, 'Tick Tock"

Everything is more than it seems, but nothing is as mysterious as it appears to be.
- Dean Koontz, 'Tick Tock"

Do, or do not. There is no try.
- Yoda

What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy? A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depository of the truth, cloaca of uncertainy and error, the glory and shame of the universe.
- Blaise Pascal

There's nothing like being able to legitimately Pass the responsibility.
- Mercedes Lackey

. . . if we can't see them, they must be there.
- Mercedes Lackey

To put it bluntly, my friend, you are ridding out into wolf territory with a young and tender lamb at your side. And the wolves look convincingly like sheep.
- Mercedes Lackey

If this is a trial of my abilities -- the gods have no sense of proportion.
- Mercedes Lackey

It is not wise to dispute the decisions of the Powers. . . . They have more ways of enforcement than you have of escape.
- Mercedes Lackey

. . . it was from teaching, he maintained, that all other professions were made possible.
- T M Wright

The curse of this "gift" is that I have it.
- T M Wright

It makes a person feel so . . . insignificant, he thought, and wondered what appeal there was in being made to feel insignificant. He decided it made his mistakes in life seem insignificant. In the great and grand scheme of things, it made him somehow blameless.
- T M Wright

Reason is not sufficient for the defence of reason.
- Max Harkheimer

. . . we should better employ cunning than courage.
- Angus Wells, "Lords of the Sky"

I did not know how I felt when I first slew a man, only that I wanted very badly to live.
- Angus Wells, "Lords of the Sky"

"The universe is perfect," Ryerson said. "It works, so it's perfect. And there is nothing -- anywhere -- that says we have to understand it.
- T M Wright

He, Frederick Dunn, had discovered what no one else anywhere had discovered, that he was a living, breathing fragment of the universe that swallowed galaxies whole.

He was a part of God.
- T M Wright

It was odd, but he felt spiritual. Cosmic. At one with the universe. The universe, after all, was as murderous as he -- it swallowed stars, it ate galaxies, and he had absorbed some of that. It wasn't a need, it was reality -- the only reality, too, because it lasted forever. And he had absorbed a piece of it. All humans could. Some others had, and they were well known to history.
- T M Wright

How should you apologise for another?
- Angus Wells, "Lords of the Sky"

It is always so? Must we always find our truths in blood?
- Angus Wells, "Lords of the Sky"

His voice was low and husky, empty of inflection in that way men have when they conceal anguish. Let us not disgrace ourselves with exhibition of weakling pain. Or is it only that we cannot handle it any other way, save that denial of it.
- Angus Wells , "Lords of the Sky"

I looked around and saw the sky all filled with dragons, dread squadrons come out of legend to fall upon a younger world.
- Angus Wells, "Lords of the Sky"

Power corrupts, but its usage can be most enjoyable.
- Angus Wells, "Lords of the Sky"

If this belief from heaven be sent,
If such be Nature's holy plan,
Have I not reason to lament
What man has made of man?
- William Woodsworth

Blood's memory dies hard.
- Angus Wells, "Lords of the Sky"

What you did was friendship's duty, and I think there's likely no greater love than that.
- Angus Wells, "Lords of the Sky"

Death and life run in cycles, no? One dies, one is born: life continues and pain abates.
- Angus Wells, "Lords of the Sky"

I think that perhaps their is only one god: time. The ager who takes us all.
- Angus Wells, "Lords of the Sky"

Why let stupidity stand in your way? Nothing else has.
- Tara K Harper

Love is learning to pay attention.
- Anonymous

The eye -- it cannot choose but see;
We cannot bid the ear be still;
Our bodies feel, wheree'er they be,
Against or with our will.
- William Woodsworth

Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum
Of things forever speaking,
That nothing of itself may come,
But we must still be seeking?
- William Woodsworth

One impulse from a vernal wood
Can teach you more of man,
Of morals evils and of good,
Than all the sages can.
- William Woodsworth

In no respect can contraries be true.
- Christopher Marlowe

Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up those barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.
- William Woodsworth

Until, the breath of this corporeal frame
And even the motion of our human blood
Almost suspended, we are laid asleep.
In body, and become a living soul:
While with an eye made quiet by power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,
We see into the life of things.
- William Woodsworth

Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of choice.
- Anonymous

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.
- Georges Guymener

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
- Russian Proverb

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
- Joe Clark

My dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch
The longing of my former heart, and read
My former pleasures in the shooting lights
Of thy wild eyed. Oh! yet a little while
May I behold in thee what I was once . . .
- William Woodsworth

. . . Therefore I am still
A lover of the meadows and the