POCKET QUOTATION

-PENGUIN REFERENCE-

Abelard, Peter 1079-1142, (French ecclesiast and theologian)

 “We do not easily suspect evil of those whom we love most.”

Acheson, Peter (gooderham), 1893-1971, (American lawyer and politician)

 “A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.”

Adams, John 1735-1826, (2nd President of the USA)

 “The happiness of society is the end of government.”

Allainvak, abbe d’ 1700-53, (French playwright)

 “The embarrassment of riches”

Allen, Woody 1935-, (American film director, writer and actor)

 “It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”

Anonymous, English

 “O God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a soul!”

 “Death is nature’s way of telling you to slow down.”

Anonymous, French

 “Ils ne passeront pas.

They shall not pass.”
 “Tempora mutantur, et nos mutamur in ilis.
Times change, and we change with them.”

Anslem, St 1033-1109 (Italian cleric, scholar and scholastic philosopher)

 “For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand.”

Argenson, Marquis d’ (Rene Louis de Voyer d’Argenson) 1694-1757, (French politician and essayist)

 “Laisser-faire. No interference.”

Arnold, Mathew 1822-88, (English poet and essayist)

 “Truth sits upon the lips of dying man.”

Auden, W(ystan) H(ugh) 1907-73, (English-born American poet)

 “Art is born of humiliation.”

Babington, Thomas 1800-59, (English essayist and historian)

 “The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuation.”

Bach, Richard 1936-, (American author, former military plot)

 “Heaven is not a place, and its not a time. Heaven is being perfect.”

Bacon, Francis 1561-1626, (English lawyer, courtier, philosopher and essayist)

 “Silentium, stultorum virtus. Silence is the virtue of fools.”

 “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
 “No man can tickle himself.”

Bagehot,Walter 1826-77 (English economist and essayist)

 “One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”

Balunin, Mikhail Alekseyevich 1814-76, (Russian anarchist)

 “From each according to his faculties, to each according to his needs.”

Baldwin, Stanley 1867-1947, (American writer and civil rights activist)

 “Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and
thought of other things if you dd.”

Balzac, Honore de 1799-1850, (French writer)

 “A mothers heart is an abyss at the bottom of which there is always forgiveness.”

 “Greed begins where poverty ends.”

Baruch, Bernard (Mannes) 1870-1965, (American financer and president adviser)

 “To me old age is always fifteen year older than I am.”

 “Vote for the man who promises least. He’ll be the least disappointing.”

Behan, Brendan 1923-64 (Irish playwright)

 “When I came back to Dublin, I was courtmartialled in my absence and sentenced to death in my
absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”

Behn, Aphra 1640-89, (English playwright, poet, and novelist)

“Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.”

Benn, Tony (Anthony Wedgwood Benn) 1925-, (British Labour politician)

 “A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for; there is all the difference
in the world.”

Bentham, Jeremy 1748-1832, (English philosopher and jurist)

 “Every law is an evil, for every law is an infraction of liberty.”

Berkley, George 1685-1753, (Irish philosopher and Angelican bishop)

 “Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.”

Bernandos, Georges 1888-1948 (French novelist and essayist)

 “Hell, madam, is to love no more.”

Bernard of Chartres d. c.1130 (French divine and scholar)

 “Nanos gigantium humeris insidentes. Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants.”

Bhagavadgita , C.150 BC-AD 150, (Hindu poem)

 “And do thy duty, even if it be humble, rather than another’s even if it be great. To die in one’s
duty is life; to live in anothers’s is death.”

Blake, William 1757-1827, (English poet, painter, engraver and mystic)

 “A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”

Bogart, John B. 1848-1921, (American Journalist)

 When a dog bites a man, that is not a news, because it happens often. But if a man bites a dog,
that is news.”

Brillat-Savarin, (Jean) Antheime 1755-1826, (French jurist and gastronome)

 “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.”

Broun, (Matthew) Heywood Campbell 1888-1939, (American Journalist, humorist and novelist)

 “The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.”

Browning, Robert 1812-89 (English poet)

“Measure your mind’s height by the shade it casts!”

Bunyan, John 1628-88, (English writer and Nonconformist preacher)

 “One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.”
Burke, Edmund 1729-97, (Irish born statesman and man of letters)

 “Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.”

 “You can plan the future by the past.”

Camus, Albert 1913-60, (French novelist, playwright and essayist)

 “You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear
question.”

Capote, Truman 1924-84 (American novelist)

 “I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.”

Cervantes, Miguel de 1547-1616 (Spanish novelist)

 “Hunger is the best sauce in the world.”

Chanel, Gabrielle 1883-1971 (French couturier)

 “Nature gives you the face you have when you are twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty.
But it is up to you to earn the face you have at fifty.”

Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith) 1874-1936, (English essayist, novelist and poet)

 “Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of
being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.”
 “Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the
badly educated.”

Christopher, Warren 1925-, (American lawyer and government official)

 “Sometimes you have to learn how to give the right answer to the wrong question.”

Churchill, Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer) 1874-1965, (British statesman, Prime Minister and writer)

 “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is the riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an
enigma.”
 “The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year.
And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”

Darwin, Charles 1809-82, (English natural historian)

 “A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn’t there.”

Dick, Philip K (indred) 1928-82, (American science-fiction writer)

 “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn’t go away.”

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan 1859-1830, (Scottish-born writer and physician)

  “How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,
however improbable, must be the truth?”

Erasmus C.1469-1536, (Dutch Christian humanist)

 “In regione caecorum rex est luscus. In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”

Forster, E(dward) M(organ) 1879-1970, (English novelist and critic)

 “Death destroys a man: the idea of death saves him.”

Freeman, Edward (Augustus) 1823-92, (English historian)

 “History is the past politics, and politics is present history.”

Frost, Robert 1974-1963, (American poet)

 “Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee

Ans I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.”

Gautier, Theophile 1811-72, (French poet, novelist and critic)

 “Pride leaves the heart the moment love enters it.”

Gibran, Kahlil 1883-1931, (srian writer and painter)

 “An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.”

Goldberg, Isaac 1887-1838, (American writer and critic)

 “Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way.”

Humilton, Sir William 1788-1856, (Scottish matephysician)

 “Truth, like a torch, the more it’s shook it shines.”

Hesse, Hermann 1877-1962, (German novelist amd poet)

 “If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of
ourselves doesn’t disturb us.”

Hewar, Gordon 1870-1943, (British lawyer and politician)

 “Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.”

Holmes, John H. 1879-1964 (American Unitarian minister)

 “The universe is not a hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.”

Holmes, Oliver Wendell 1809-94, (American physician, poet and essayist)

  “It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”

Homer 8C B.C., (Greek epic poet)

 Smiling through her tears.”

Hoover, Herbert 1874-1964, (31st President of the USA)

 “All men are equal before a fish.”

Hope, Bob 1903-2003, (American comedian)

 “A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.”

Hubbard, Elbert (Green) 1859-1915, (American writer, editor and printer)

 “Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.”
 “Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the
chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.”

Hunt, Leigh 1784-1859, (English poet and essayist)

 “Stolen sweets are always sweeter,

Stolen kisses much completer,
Stolen looks are nice in chapels,
Stolen, stolen, be your apples.”

Huxley, T(homas) H(enry) 1825-95, (English Biologist)

 “The great tragedy of Science- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”

Ibsen, Henrik Johan 1828-1906, (Norwegian playwright)

 “In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the
prisoners of envy.”

James, William 1842-1910, (American philosopher and psychologist)

 “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

Johnson, Samuel (Dr. Johnson) 1709-84, (English poet, critic, lexicographer and conversationist)

 “Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.”

Juvrnal (Decimus lunius luvenalis) AD C.60-C.130 (Roman satirist)

 “Orandum est ut sit mens sana un corpore sano. You should pray to have a sound mind in a
sound body.”

Kempis, St Thomas a C.1380-1471 (German monk and author)

  “Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit. Man proposes, but God disposes.”

King, Martin Luther Jr 1929-68, (American civil rights leader)

 “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Kissinger, Henry (Alfred)

 “The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think that it’s there
fault.”

La bruyere, Jean de 1645-96, (French moralist)

 “If life is miserable, it is difficult to endure; if it is happy, it is horrible to lose. They come to the
same thing.”
 “The impossibility I find myself in to prove that God does not exist proves to me his existence.”

La Fontaine, Jean de 1621-92, (French poet and moralist)

 “All roads lead to Rome.”

Lance, Bert 1931- (American government official)

 “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

Lang, Andrew 1844-1912, (Scottish man of letters)

 “Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk use lamp-post for support rather than
illumination.”

Langton, Stephen D. 1228 (Archbishop of Canterbury)

 Venti, Sancte Spiritus.

Come, Holy Spirit.

La Rochefoucauld Francois, Duc de 1613-80, (French moralist)

 “The love of justice is most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.”
 “The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.”

Lebowitz, Fran(ces Ann) 1951-, (American writer)

 “Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about
wine.”

Lenin 1870-1924, (Russian revolutionary)

 “Liberty is precious – so precious that it must be rationed.”

Livy (Titus Livius) 59 B.C.-AD 17, (Roman historian)

  “Vae victis!
Down with the defeated!”

Marx, Karl 1818-83, (German political philosopher)

 “From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”

Mencken, H(enry) L(ouis) 1880-1956, (American Journalist, language commentator and critic)

 “Conscience: The inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.”

Miller, Henry (Valentine) 1891-1980, (American novelist)

 “Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to
imagine everything.”

Milton, John 1608-74 (English poet)

 “Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.”

Mizner, Wilson 1878-1933 (American Dramatist)

 “If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many. It’s research.”

Mussolini, Benito 1883-1945, (Italian politician and Prime Minister)

 “Better one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep.”

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph 1809-65, (French social reformer)

 “Property is theft.”

Rogers, Will 1879-1935, (American actor and humorist)

 “I don’t make jokes- I just watch the government and report the facts.”

Rostand, Jean 1894-1977, (French biologist)

 “Kill a man, and you are an assassin.”

 “I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a prejudices.”

Ruskin, John 1819-1900, (English art and social critic)

 “Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.”

Saint-Exupery, Antoine de 1900-44, (French author and Aviator)

 “Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the
same direction.”

Santayana, George 1863-1952, (Spanish born US philosopher and writer)

  “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
 “A building without ornamentation is like heaven without stars.”

Schweitzer, Albert 1875-1965, (German medical missionary , theologian, musician and philosopher)

 “An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red
stoplight. The truly wise person is colou-blind.”

Seaton, George 1911-79, (American screenwriter and director)

 “For those who believe in God no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe in God
no explanation is possible.”

Shakespeare, William 1564-1616, (English playwright)

 “Honestly coupled to beauty is have honey a sauce to sugar.”

 “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
 “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
 “Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all.”
 “I will speak daggers to her, but use none.”
 “I must be cruel only to be kind.”

Walton, izaak 1593-1683, (English writer)

 “No man can lose what he never had.”

Waugh, Evelyn 1903-66, (English novelist)

 “Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler 1855-1919 (American poet)

 “laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.”
 “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.”
 “Work is the curse of drinking classes.”

Williams, William Carlos 1883-1963, (American poet)

 “Anything is good material for poetry. Anything.”

Wilmot, John 1647-80, (English poet)

 “Here lies a great and mighty king Whose promise none relies on; He never did a wise one.”

Wotton, Sir Henry 1568-1639, (English poet and diplomat)

 “an ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.”

Wylie, Betty Jane 1931-, (Canadian writer)

  “Poverty isn’t being broke; poverty is never having enough.”

Yeats, W(illiam) B(utler) 1865-1939, (Irish poet)

 “A pity beyond all telling, Is hid in the heart of love.”

 “Think like a wise man but express yourself like the common people.”

Young, Edward 1683-1765, (English poet and playwright)

 “Procastination is the thief of time”