Author Quotee First Name [a] [b] [c] [d] [e] [f] [g] [h] [i] [j] [k] [l] [m] [n] [o] [p] [q] [r] [s] [t] [u] [v] [w] [x] [y] [z]
A Course In Miracles
A shout from chess grandmaster Aaron Nimzovich
A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
A. Bartlett Giamatti, President of Yale University
A. Bronson Alcott
A. E. Housman
A. F. Shaw
A. Huxley, Island
A. J. Ayer, Humanist Outlook
A. J. Liebling
A. J. Toynbee
A. Lawrence Lowell
A. Mark Wells
A. N. Whitehead
A. P. Gouthey
A. Poincelot
A. S. Neill, Summerhill
A. Sachs
A. Whitney Brown
A.A. Milne
A.E. Houseman
A.J. Liebling
Aaron Burr
Aaron Copland
Aaron Nimzovich, A shout from the chess grandmaster
Aaron Rose
Abba Eban
Abbe Guillaume Raynal
Abbie Hoffman
Abbie Hoffman, In response to the success of his book; Steal this Book
Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Urine Test
Abbie M. Dale
Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 15
Abdul Baha, April 19, 1912, Earl Hall
Abdul Baha, Bahai Writings
Abdul Baha, Paris Talks, p. 154
Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams, 1780
Abigail Adams, letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
Abigail Adams, letter to John Adams, 1774
Abigail Van Buren
Abigail Van Buren in reply to the question: "Why do Jews always answer a question with a question?"
Abraham Harold Maslow
Abraham J. Heschel
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
Abraham Lincoln, A House Divided
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln, in a book review
Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864
Abraham Lincoln, On Marriage
Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1865
Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D.C., 1865
Abraham Maslow
Abraham Myerson
Abrahm Lincoln
Achilles, Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 955
Actor Edmund Gwenn
Adair Lara
Adam Marshall
Adam Richardson
Adam Savage, Mythbusters TV show
Adam Smith
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
Adela Rogers St. Johns
Adela Rogers St.John
Adele Brookman
Adelle Davis
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., retort to a heckler asking him to state his beliefs, Time, November 1, 1963
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech to Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois, July 21, 1952
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., speech, October 3, 1952
Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr
Adm. Horatio Nelson, last words, 21 Oct 1805.
Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, The Rickover Effect
Admiral Hyman Rickover
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler, His 3rd Public Speech After taking Power.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler, Mien Kampf
Adolph Hitler
Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
Adolph Monod
Adopted from Lance Fusco.
Adrian Mitchell
Adrienne E. Gusoff
Adrienne Gusoff
Advance
advice given to Herbert Humphrey by an American Indian from New Mexico
Aelius Donatus
Aeschylus
Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus, The Seven Against Thebes
Aesop
Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner
Aesop, Juno and the Peacock
Aesop, The Ant and the Grasshopper
Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks
Aesop, The Dog and the Shadow
Aesop, The Dog in the Manger
Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes
Aesop, The Fox and the Lion
Aesop, The Frog and the Ox
Aesop, The Goose with the Golden Eggs
Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise
Aesop, The Jay and the Peacock
Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse
Aesop, The Man and the Satyr
Aesop, The Milkmaid and Her Pail
Aesop, The Old Man and Death
Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
Aesop, The Wolf and the Lamb
Afranius
African Proverb
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
Agatha Christie, Appointment with Death
Agatha Christie, Autobiography (1977)
Agathon
Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Agesilaus the Second
Agnes de Mille
Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier, Americans and Others, 1912
Ahad HaAm
Akio Morita, Made in Japan (1986)
Akira Kurosawa
Akiro Kurosawa
Al Batt, in National Enquirer
Al Bernstein
Al Capone
Al Capp
Al Franken, "Oh, the Things I Know", 2002
Al Franken, Stuart Smalley in Saturday Night Live, catchphrase
Al Gore - during 1992 Vice Presidential debate
Alain
Alain de Lille
Alain van der Heide
Alan Alda
Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980
Alan Ashley-Pitt
Alan Chadwick
Alan Corenk
Alan Dean Foster "To the Vanishing Point"
Alan Dean Foster, "To the Vanishing Point"
Alan Dean Foster, To the Vanishing Point
Alan Dershowitz
Alan Holbrook
Alan Kay
Alan King
Alan Mackay
Alan Moore, Birth Caul
Alan Moore, The league of extraordinary gentlemen, chapter 5
Alan of Lille
Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country
Alan Patrick Herbert
Alan Perlis
Alan Saporta
Alan Turing
Alan Watts
Alan Woods
Alanis Morissette
Albanian Proverb
Alben W. Barkley, (vice president under Harry Truman)
Alben W. Barkley, U.S Vice President (1949-1953)
Albert & Emily Vail, Transforming Light (pg 254)
Albert Camus
Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
Albert Camus, La Chute (The Fall),1956
Albert Camus, The Fall
Albert Camus, The Rebel (1951)
Albert Camus, The Stranger
Albert Cooper
Albert E. Wiggam
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein, "Autobiographical Notes"
Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941
Albert Einstein, (attributed)
Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
Albert Einstein, 1929
Albert Einstein, Dilip Kumar Roy, (famous Indian classical singer), had cited the above quotation of Einstein in one of his let
Albert Einstein, In a letter to Max Born, 1926
Albert Einstein, Letter, 24 March 1954. Quoted in "Albert Einstein: The Human Side," edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman
Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947
Albert Einstein, On Education
Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years
Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940
Albert Einstein, quoted in Scientific American, September 2004, page 69
Albert Einstein, Sc
Albert Einstein, speech
Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946
Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (autobio, 1934)
Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.
Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio
Albert Einstein.
Albert Eintein, World As I See It, 1934 - referring to the military system
Albert Ellis, founder of Rational Emotive Therapy
Albert Guinon
Albert Pike
Albert Pine
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Szent-Gyorgi
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, The Crazy Ape
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi, in Irving Good, The Scientist Speculates (1962)
Alberta Lee Cox
Albertano of Brescia
Albertano of Brescia, Liber Consolationis
Alcuin
Aldo Leopold
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley, "Music at Night", 1931
Aldous Huxley, "Proper Studies", 1927
Aldous Huxley, "Texts and Pretexts", 1932
Aldous Huxley, "Themes and Variations", 1950
Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
Aldous Huxley, unknown
Aldous Huxley, Vendeta for the Western World, 1945
Aldus Manutius, Placard on the door of the Aldine Press
Alec Bourne
Alec Waugh
Aleister Crowley
Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Commencement Address at Harvard University, June 8, 1978.
Alex Comfort
Alexander A. Bogomoletz
Alexander Clark
Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexander Fraser Tyler, Cycle of Democracy (1770)
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Haig
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton, Loth, Dave, Alexander Hamilton, Portrait of a Prodigy, Rahway, Carrick & Evans, Inc., 1939
Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson
Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist 22
Alexander Hodge
Alexander Humboldt
Alexander Jablokov "The Place of No Shadows"
Alexander Jablokov, The Place of No Shadows
Alexander Penney
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope, "Ode to Solitude"
Alexander Pope, (1712?)
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 1711
Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism
Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
Alexander Pope, Letter to Gay, October 6, 1727
Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Senturia
Alexander Smith
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Peace and Violence, sct. 2, in Index, no. 4 (London, 1973.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Alexander Woollcott
Alexandra Stoddard, Gracious Living in a New World
Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas, fils
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo"
Alexis Carrel
Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis DeTocqueville
Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR
Alford
Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Montapert
Alfred Adler
Alfred Alder
Alfred Austin
Alfred De Musset
Alfred du Masset
Alfred E. Neuman (probably William Gaines), MAD Magazine
Alfred E. Neuman, The Half-Wit and Wisdom of Alfred E. Neuman (MAD magazine)
Alfred E. Newman
Alfred E. Wiggam
Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock, In Simon Rose, Classic Film Guide (1995)
Alfred Jarry
Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Korzybski
Alfred Korzybski, His book, Science And Sanity
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses (poem)
Alfred Mercier
Alfred Montapert
Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)
Alfred North Whitehead, From the viewbook of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Alfred North Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics (1911)
Alfred North Whitehead, N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC:Rome Press Inc., 1988.
Alfred Tennyson
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A.H.H. 96, ll. 11-12.
Ali ibn-Abi-Talib, A Hundred Sayings
Alice Cooper, BBC6 Radio, The Bruce Dickinson show
Alice Hoffman
Alice James
Alice Jones
Alice Kahn
Alice May Brock
Alice Roosevelt Longfellow, about Calvin Coolidge
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from Mrs. L. Conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Alice Thomas Ellis
Alice Walker
Alice Walker, Living by the Word, 1988
Alison Lurie
Alla Yaroshinskaya
Allan Goldfein
Allan K. Chalmers
Allan Williams
Allard Lowenstein, O Magazine, September 2002
Allegra Kent, Once a Dancer…
Allen Ginsberg
Allphonse de Lamartine
Alonzo Newton Benn
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daulet
Alphonse Desjardins, The Canadian credit union pioneer made the remarks in a speech in the early 1900s.
Alphonse Karr
Alphonse Karr, Les Guêpes
Alvin Dark, former baseball coach
Alvin Toffler
Ambassador Li Zhaoxing, PRC, Idaho Grain, Fall 2000, p.8
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Redmoon
Ambrosius Macrobius
Amelia Burr
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927
American
American Greetings Card
American Heart Association Cookbook
American Indian Proverb
American Proverb
Amos Bronson Alcott
Amos Bronson Alcott, "Table Talk"
Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk
Amos Bronson Alcott, Table Talk (1877)
Amy Bloom
Amy Dacyczyn
Amy Lowell
Amy Tan
Amy Vanderbilt
An English Professor, Ohio University
An Wang
Anacharsis Cloots
Anais Nin
Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice"
Anais Nin, House of Incest
Anastasio Somoza García, Dictator of Nicaragua 1936-1956
Anatole Broyard
Anatole France
Anatole France, Revolt of the Angels
Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Anatole France, The Red Lily, 1894, chapter 7
Anaxagoras, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Anaximenes
Ancient Chinese Warlord
Ancient Egyptian Blessing
Ancient Proverb
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, (Prime Minister of Denmark) Family photo after the European Council meeting in Copenhagen, 13 December 20
Andre Agassi, on "Charlie Rose"
Andre Bernard Buruch
Andre Gide
Andre Gide, Le traite du Narcisse (1891)
Andre Malraux
Andre Maurois
Andrea Bocelli, in TV Guide
Andrew A. Rooney
Andrew Brown
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Grove, Co-founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation, Only the Paranoid Survive
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson, 1821
Andrew Lang
Andrew Mellon
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Andrew Soloman, “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression”, on his belief that grief is profoundly important for the human cond
Andrew Soloman, ”The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression”, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide
Andrew W. Mathis
Andrew Young
Andy & Larry Wachowski, Merovingian - The Matrix Revolutions
Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999
Andy McIntyre
Andy Rooney
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Aneurin Bevan
Angela Monet
Angelina Jolie
Ani DiFranco
Ani Difranco, Letter to a John
Anita Loos
Anita Roddick, A Revolution in Kindness, 2003
Ann Douglas
Ann Frank, Diary of Ann Frank
Ann Landers
Anna Freud
Anna Jameson
Anna Louise Strong
Anna M. Uhlich
Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life
Anna Quindlen, O Magazine, May 2003
Anna Sewell
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877
Anne Besant
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
Anne Frank
Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944
Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
Anne Frank, from The Diary of a Young Girl, January 5, 1944
Anne Frank, from the diary of Anne Frank
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank, The diary of Anne Frank
Anne Lamott
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Rice
Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold"
Anne Rice, Interview with a Vampire
Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
Anne Sexton
Anne Sullivan
Anne Swetchine
Anne Tyler, Celestial Navigation, 1974
Anne Wilson Schaef
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
Anne-Sophie Swetchine, The Writings of Madame Swetchine, 1869
Annie Besant
Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard, "Winning Words" Compiled by Allen Klein Portland House, 1998
Annie Dillard, _Pilgrim at Tinker Creek_
Annie Lennox
Annson Dorrance
Anonymous
Anonymous British civil servant, "Take Her Deep" by I.J. Galatin, Cdr., US Navy, ret.
Anonymous teacher
Anonymous, As told in Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Anonymous, French slogan
Anonymous, Graffito
Anonymous, Greensleeves
anonymous, Letter to the Editor, The Advocate
Anonymous, Proverb
Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
Ansel Adams
Anson Dorrance, Go for the Goal by Mia Hamm
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie du Gout, 1825
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, 1825
Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Jay
Anthony Klco
Anthony Norvell
Anthony Starr
Antione De Riveral
Antione de St. Exupery, The Little Prince
Antiphanes
Antisthenes
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince", 1943
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov, 1897
Antonin Artaud
Antonio Porchia, Voices
Antonio Salieri, title of an opera
Antony Jay / Jonathon Lynn, Sir Humphrey Appleby from the "Yes, Minister" Series
Anwar el-Sadat
Aphra Behn
Appianus
Appius Claudius
Apple LaserWriter manual
Aprocrypha
Apuleius
Aquaviva
Arab Proverb
Arabian Proverb
Arapaho Proverb
Arcesilaus
Archbishop Ireland
Archbishop William Temple, 1955
Archibald Alexander
Archibald Mc Leish
Archimedes
Archimedes (ca. 235 bc)
Archimedes, (ca. 235 BC)
Archimedes, 300 B.C.
Archimedes, from Pappus of Alexandria, Collectio
Aristippus
Aristophanes
Aristophanes, 450-385 BC, Birds, 414 BC
Aristophanes, Frogs, 405 B.C.
Aristophanes, Knights, 424 B.C.
Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B.C.
Aristophanes, Wasps, 422 B.C.
Aristotle
Aristotle Onassis
Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics
Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Aristotle, In Stobaeus, Florilegium
Aristotle, Metaphysica
Aristotle, Metaphysics
Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, bk. 10, ch. 7, sct. 1177b
Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
Aristotle, Parts of Animals
Aristotle, Physics
Aristotle, Politics
Aristotle, Politics (quoting a proverb)
Aristotle, quoted in http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html
Aristotle, Rhetoric
Aristotle, unknown
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Edinborough
Arnold Glasgow
Arnold H. Glasgow
Arnold Palmer
Arnold Patent
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Toynbee
Arsene Houssaye
Art Bell
Art Costa
Art Hoppe
Art Linkletter
Art Spander
Artemus Ward
Arthuer Schopenhauer
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Baer
Arthur Balfour
Arthur Brisbane
Arthur Brisbane, "The Book of Today"
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke, 1983
Arthur C. Clarke, 2010
Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future
Arthur C. Clarke, The Exploration of Space, 1951
Arthur Calwell
Arthur Cayley
Arthur Chapman
Arthur Garfield Hays
Arthur Gingold
Arthur Goldberg
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Arthur Helps
Arthur Honegger
Arthur Koestler
Arthur Lynch
Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller, The Crucible, act II
Arthur Powell Davies
Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rubinstein
Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966
Arthur Schnabel, in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958
Arthur Schnabel, My Life and Music (1961)
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Shopenhauer
Arthur Stringer, "The Silver Poppy"
Arthur Wellesley, (first Duke of Wellington)
Arthur Wellesley, Aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, 1815.
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Attributed; when the courtesan Harriette Wilson threatened to publish her memoirs and his
Arthur Wing Pinero
Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957), To his orchestra
Ashely Montagu
Ashlee Simpson, In her album Autobiography.
Ashley Dukes, The Man with a Load of Mischief (1924)
Ashley Montagu
Ashley Montague
Asoka
Atari founder Nolan Bushnell
Athol Fugard
Attributed by Plato to Socrates, "Apology"
Atwell
Audre Lorde
Audrey Giorgi
Audrey Hepburn
August Hare
Augusta Jane Evans
Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830)
Auguste Renoir
Auguste Rodin
Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
Augustine Birrell
Augustine, (AD 354-430)
Augustus Hare
Augustus Octavius
Aulus Gellius
Aung San Suu Kyi
Ausonius
Austin Farrar
Austin L. Sorensen
Austin Phelps
Australian Aboriginal Elder
Author Unknown
Author Unknown, (apocryphal)
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand, Anthem
Ayn Rand, Anthem, 1946
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Ayn Rand, Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal p. 42
Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 1966
Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto
Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto
Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto p. 74 (pb 93)
Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness, 1964
Azel Backus
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