Every known fact in natural science was divined
by the presentiment of somebody,
before it was actually verified.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I had known what it would be like to have it all -
I might have been willing to settle for less.
- Lily Tomlin
Man's nature is not essentially evil.
Brute nature has been known to
yield to the influence of love.
You must never despair of human nature.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
- John Lennon
It is strange to be known so universally
and yet to be so lonely.
- Albert Einstein
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
True friendship is like sound health;
the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
- Charles Caleb Colton
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
If i had known... i would have lingered
over my coffee a little longer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Walking takes longer...
than any other known form of locomotion except crawling.
Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
Life is already too short to waste on speed.
- Edward Abbey
Character is always known.
Thefts never enrich;
alms never impoverish;
murder will speak out of stone walls.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge
and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you,
you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man.
They die up to a point.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I was losing interest in politics,
when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty well known.
- Abraham Lincoln
When we see the face of God
we shall know that we have always known it.
He has been a party to, has made, sustained
and moved moment by moment within,
all our earthly experiences of innocent love.
- C. S. Lewis
You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words,
and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Winston Churchill
I was so jazzed about sobering up
and starting a new life;
I had to stop at a bar
to get a drink just to calm down.
- the television series Glee
I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years
to have breakfast together,
but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
- Winston Churchill
Getting fired is nature's way to telling you
that you had the wrong job in the first place.
- Hal Lancaster
I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain
Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance
and hypocritical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
In every country and every age,
the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet
I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather
Who made the rule that life has to be so serious?
One would think that "life is serious" had been engraved
upon stone tablets to judge from how most lives are lived.
Get a life, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat - dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
The soul would have no rainbow,
Had the eyes no tears.
- John Vance Cheney
Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart,
it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
- Ron Miller/Michael Masser
I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau
If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Heroes do what the rest of us would do,
if only we had the courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
- Thomas Jefferson
How many things there are concerning which we might
well deliberate whether we had better know them.
- Henry David Thoreau
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When people hear good music,
it makes them homesick for
something they never had,
and never will have.
- Edgar Watson Howe
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment,
failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer,
I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
- Winston Churchill
I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares.
I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
- Jonas Salk
We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono
When I took office, only high energy physicists
had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web...
Now even my cat has its own page.
- William J. Clinton
It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Some people wanted champagne and caviar
when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
Essentially all suffering is the result of...
1. Comparing what we have (or don't have) today
... with what we had yesterday.
2. Comparing what we fear we might have (or not have) tomorrow)
... with what we have today.
3. Comparing what we have (or don't have) with what others have.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I tried to remember how to exhale.
I had to look away before it came back to me.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe
that had the lion's heart.
I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
- Winston Churchill
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have found that hollow,
which even I had relied on for solid.
- Henry David Thoreau
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
It is only when we truly know and understand
that we have a limited time on earth
and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up
that we will begin to live each day to the fullest,
as if it were the only one we had.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors,
and no slave who has not had a king among his.
- Helen Keller
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation,
man would still be a beast in the forest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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