Archive for December, 2009
- An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.~ Sidney J. Harris
- An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.~ Henry Ford
- An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing. ~ H. L. Mencken
- A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less. ~ Pir Vilayat Khan
- Don’t let the alarm clock of life wake you from the dream of your ideals. ~ Irisa Hail
- Don’t use that foreign word “ideals.” We have that excellent native word “lies.” ~ Henrik Ibsen
- Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. ~ Robert F. Kennedy
- I am an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my way.~ Carl Sandburg
- Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem. ~ John Galsworthy
- Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.~ William F. Buckley
- Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.~ Mikhail Bakunin
- Idealist: a cynic in the making.~ Irving Layton
- Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.~ Emma Goldman
- Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them. ~ Carl Schurz
- Ideals are the world’s masters. ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland
- If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
- I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.~ Anne Frank
- Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. ~ Albert Camus
- It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new. ~ Karl Kraus
- No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. ~ Winston Churchill
- Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.~ Joseph Joubert
- Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices. ~ George Bernard Shaw
- Our ideals are our better selves. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
- Some people never have anything except ideals. ~ E.W. Howe
- The actual well seen is ideal. ~ Thomas Carlyle
- The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. ~ Stanley Baldwin
- The enemy of idealism is zealotry.~ Neil Kinnock
- The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.~ Malcolm De Chazal
- There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. ~ Calvin Coolidge
- The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.~ James Russell Lowell
- The true measure of a man is the height of his ideals, the breadth of his sympathy, the depth of his convictions, and the length of his patience.~ Author Unknown
- What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. ~ Francis Herbert Hedge
- When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then. ~ John Oliver Hobbes
- When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one’s imagination. ~ Ellen Key
- Words without actions are the assassins of idealism. ~ Herbert Clark Hoover
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- A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. ~ William Hazlitt
- All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy.~ Peter Wastholm
- And why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? ~ The Holy Bible
- Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. ~ Rebecca West
- Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite.~ Author Unknown
- Clean your finger before you point at my spots.~ Benjamin Franklin
- Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation. ~ Iskander Mirza
- Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.~ Christine Keeler
- How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say. ~ Oscar Wilde
- Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. ~ Edmund Burke
- Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. ~ Count Leo Tolstoy
- Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue.~ Indian Proverb
- Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.~ Mo Rocca
- Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue. ~ Judith Martin
- Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging. ~ Alexander Theroux
- Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
- Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.~ Mason Cooley
- Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.~ Jose Marti
- Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.~ Jean Kerr
- Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.~ Honore de Balzac
- Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. ~ Stendhal
- Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy. ~ Author Unknown
- No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.~ Bernard Mandeville
- Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. ~ Ambrose Bierce
- Reagan and Bush… made the world safe for hypocrisy.~ Julia Phillips
- The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite! ~ Tennessee Williams
- The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. ~ William Hazlitt
- There’s no hypocrisy in Hell’s Kitchen. ~ Ethel Waters
- There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. ~ Frederick William Robertson
- The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. ~ Oscar Wilde
- We are not hypocrites in our sleep. ~ William Hazlitt
- We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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- A jest is half a truth.~ Yiddish Proverb
- Experience is the teacher of jesters and the intelligence of the wise. ~ German Proverb
- He that would jest must take a jest, or else to let it alone were best.~ Dutch Proverb
- I’m from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times – maybe some would say dirty – jokes. But in jest.~ Sarah Michelle
- I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.~ Marie de France
- In the presence of princes the cleverest jester is mute.~ Chinese Proverb
- Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.~ Jean De La Bruyere
- Jests that give pains are no jests. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
- Judge of a jest when you have done laughing. ~ Robert Lloyd
- Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. ~ Bette Davis
- Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest. ~ Javan
- Many a friend has been lost by a jest, but none has ever been got by one.~ Czech Proverb
- Many a true word is spoken in jest.~ English Proverb
- Never injure a friend, even in jest. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Never try to be more foolish than the jester. ~ Yiddish Proverb
- The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.~ Friedrich Schiller
- The praise of a thousand jesters counts for nothing against the reprimand of one wise man.~ German Proverb
- The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. ~ Henry David Thoreau
- The worst jests are those which are true. ~ French Proverb
- Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.~ Samuel Richardson
- To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another’s breast is to become a principal in the mischief.~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- War is the statesman’s game, the priest’s delight, the lawyer’s jest, the hired assassin’s trade.~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.~ Helen Rowland
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- A man’s worth depends on his two smallest organs: his heart and his tongue. ~ Arabian Proverb
- A teacher is someone who ploughs with his tongue to fill his little bowl with rice. ~ Chinese Proverb
- Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound. ~ Peace Pilgrim
- Be slow of tongue and quick of eye. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
- Four horses cannot overtake the tongue. ~ Chinese Proverb
- God speaks a foreign tongue.~ Namibian Proverb
- He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold his tongue. ~ Italian Proverb
- If you have five wives, then you have five tongues. ~ African Proverb
- I gave so much advice that hair grew on my tongue.~ Iranian Proverb
- I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue. ~ Xenocrates of Chalcedon
- In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. ~ George Bancroft
- It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn. ~ Euripides
- Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.~ Publilius Syrus
- Let not your tongue say what your head may pay for. ~ Italian Proverb
- Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf. ~ Native American Proverb
- Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.~ Jewish Proverb
- Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue; to the end we should hear and see more than we speak.~ Greek Proverb
- Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.~ Adam Clarke
- Sweet tongues buy horses on credit.~ Hawaiian Proverb
- Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know.”. ~ Hebrew Proverb
- Teach your child to hold his tongue; he’ll learn fast enough to speak. ~ Benjamin Franklin
- Teeth placed in front of the tongue give good advice.~ Italian Proverb
- The body pays for a slip of the foot and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.~ Malawian Proverb
- The only sword that never rests is the tongue of a woman.~ Armenian Proverb
- The poor eat meat when they bite their tongues.~ Brazilian Proverb
- The smaller the heart, the longer the tongue. ~ Italian Proverb
- The soul of a fool is always dancing on the tip of his tongue. ~ Arabian Proverb
- The teeth sometimes bite the tongue. ~ Malawian Proverb
- The tongue has no bones, yet it breaks bones.~ Greek Proverb
- The tongue is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood. ~ Anne Seaton
- The tongue is more to be feared than the sword. ~ Japanese Proverb
- The tongue is safe; even among thirty teeth.~ Indian Proverb
- The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.~ Washington Irving
- The tongue of experience utters the most truth.~ Arabian Proverb
- The tongue of men is the whip of God. ~ Iranian Proverb
- The tongue of the fool is always long. ~ Armenian Proverb
- The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.~ German Proverb
- Violence of the tongue is very real-sharper than any knife. ~ Mother Teresa
- When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.~ Italian Proverb
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- Anger makes dull men witty — but it keeps them poor. ~ Francis Bacon
- Avoid witticisms at the expense of others. ~ Horace Mann
- A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
- A witty saying proves nothing. ~ Voltaire
- Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.~ Elsie De Wolfe
- He’s winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike. ~ William Shakespeare
- He who doesn’t lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. ~ Gotthold Lessing
- He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ~ Samuel Johnson
- Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- If you want to be witty, work on your character and say what you think on every occasion. ~ Marie-Henri Beyle Stendhal
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. ~ Honore De Balzac
- Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. ~ Francis Bacon
- Melancholy men are of all others the most witty. ~ Aristotle
- Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another’s wit. ~ John Christian Bovee
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. ~ Jane Austen
- People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate. ~ George Eliot
- The banalities of a great man pass for wit. ~ Alexander Chase
- There’s no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature — the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- There are many witty men whose brains can’t fill their bellies.~ American Proverb
- To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it. ~ Andre Maurois
- True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed. ~ Alexander Pope
- Wit is educated insolence. ~ Aristotle
- Wit is the epitaph of an emotion. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- Wit is the only wall between us and the dark. ~ Mark Van Doren
- Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. ~ William Hazlitt
- Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation. ~ Mark Twain
- Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike. ~ Anne Germain De Stael
- Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Your wits make others witty. ~ Catherine The Great
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