Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
-Albert Camus
I look at you these days, you know what I see? I see a man without a country. Not hard enough for this right here...and maybe, just maybe not smart enough for them out there.
-Avon Barksdale
All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
-Bob Dylan
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
-Bob Dylan
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
-Bob Dylan
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
-Bob Dylan
I had already slipped to the sin of love's false security.
-Bob Dylan
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
-Confucius
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
-e. e. cummings
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
-Edgar Allen Poe
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
-Edgar Allan Poe
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
-Epicurus
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
-Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
-Carl Jung
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
-Carl Jung
A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
-Carl Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
-Carl Jung
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
-George Carlin
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
-Mark Twain
All generaliztions are false.
-Mark Twain
A man is a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
-Mohandas Gandhi
All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
-Mohandas Gandhi
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
-Muhammad Ali
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing.
-Muhammad Ali
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
-Nelson Mandela
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
-Nelson Mandela
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
-Oscar Wilde
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
-Oscar Wilde
A true friend stabs you in the front.
-Oscar Wilde
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
-Plato
Death is not the worst that can happen to men.
-Plato
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
-Robert Frost
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-Robert Frost
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
-Robert Frost
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
-Robert Frost
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
-Sigmund Freud
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.
-Sigmund Freud
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
-Socrates
An honest man is always a child.
-Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
-Socrates
Be as you wish to seem.
-Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
-Socrates
I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.
-Tupac Shakur
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
-William Shakespeare
As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
-William Shakespeare
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
-William Shakespeare
But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
-William Shakespeare
A joke is a very serious thing.
-Winston Churchill
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Winston Churchill
