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Classic music is th' kind that we keep thinkin'll turn into a tune.
— Frank McKinney
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear  which remains unsatisfied  and even uneasy  until it hears something better.
— Charles Burney
Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear  which remains unsatisfied  and even uneasy  until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends  there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony  to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder  is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.
— John Cage
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
— Alistair Cooke
Don't play what's there  play what's not there.
— Miles Davis
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
— George Bernard Shaw
Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.
— Francis Bacon
God tells me how he wants the music played - and you get in his way.
— Arturo Toscanini
Handel was a man of the world  but Bach was a world of a man.
— Arnold Stevenson
He was dying all his life.
— Hector Berlioz
I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.
— Edvard Grieg
I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.
— Edward Appleton
In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.
— Antonin Dvorak
It is the best of all trades to make songs  and the second best to sing them.
— Hilaire Belloc
Jazz came to America 300 years ago in chains.
— Paul Whiteman
Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.
— Dave Brubeck
Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
— Ornette Coleman
Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.
— John Philip Sousa
Mozart is sunshine.
— Antonin Dvorak
Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.
— George Eliot
Mozart's music gives us permission to live.
— John Updike
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon  between spirit and matter.
— Heinrich Heine
Music is another planet.
— Alphonse Daudet
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
— Thomas Carlyle
Music touches places beyond our touching.
— Keith Bosley
Music with dinner is an insult  both to the cook and the violinist.
— G. K. Chesterton
Never compose anything unless the not composing of it becomes a positive nuisance to you.
— Gustav Hoist
Nothing is better than music.... It has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.
— Nadia Boulanger
Rests always sound well.
— Arnold Schoenberg
Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing  did certain persons die before they sing.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.
— Andre Previn
The devil does not stay where music is.
— Martin Luther
The Sonata is an essentially dramatic art form  combining the emotional range in vivid presentation of a full-size stage drama with the terseness of a short story.
— Donald Francis Tovey
The sonatas of Mozart are unique  they are too easy for children  and too difficult for artists.
— Artur Schnabel
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
— Igor Stravinsky
Throughout my career  nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played at  I feel as bad as I did the very first time.
— Pablo Casals
Twelve Highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.
— Scottish proverb
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
— Gioacchino Rossini
Who is there that  in logical words  can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate  unfathomable speech  which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!
— Thomas Carlyle
You know what you do when you shit  singing is the same thing  only up!
— Enrico Caruso
After silence  that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
— Aldous Huxley
When people hear good music  it makes them homesick for something they never had  and never will have.
— Edgar Watson Howe
Light quirks of music  broken and uneven  make the soul dance upon a jig of heaven.
— Alexander Pope
Who hears music  feels his solitude peopled at once.
— Robert Browning
Richard Wagner  a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.
— Mark Twain
One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing  and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time.
— Gioacchino Rossini
He could fiddle all the bugs off a sweet-potato vine.
— Stephen Vincent Benet
Opera purges men of those hesitations and worries which make it difficult for them to acknowledge their importance to themselves. A good performance of an opera  that is  provides a language for us to speak of ourselves as we have always known we should speak.
— Hamish Swanston
No one can any longer write in the fat style of Strauss. That was killed by Stravinsky. He stripped the body of much of its clothes. Music is the craft of building structures with sound and that is what Stravinsky represents.
— Vladimir Nabokov
A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.
— Mikhail Glinka
Sentimentally I am disposed to harmony  but organically I am incapable of a tune.
— Charles Lamb
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
— Confucius
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra  not choreography to the audience.
— George Szell
For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire  the second half trimming it.
— Ethan Mordden
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
— Gioacchino Rossini
Opera in English is  in the main  just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
— H. L. Mencken
Music is only sound expressing certain patterns  so to what extent is that sound architecture and to what extent theatre?
— Arthur Brown
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
— Benny Green
Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated  that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few  and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
Music is your own experience  your thoughts  your wisdom. If you don't live it  it won't come out of your horn.
— Charlie Parker
The good composer is slowly discovered  the bad composer is slowly found out.
— Ernest Newman
The function of pop music is to be consumed.
— Pierre Boulez
Oboe - an ill woodwind that nobody blows good.
— Anonymous
Music first and last should sound well  should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.
— Thomas Beecham
I am tired before the concert  not afterward.
— Artur Rubinstein
Music  the greatest good that mortals know  and all of heaven we have below.
— Joseph Addison
What we play is life.
— Louis Armstrong
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
— Igor Stravinsky
Had I learned to fiddle  I should have done nothing else.
— Samuel Johnson
The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah  that is where the art resides!
— Artur Schnabel
Chamber music - a conversation between friends.
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
— Goethe
I write as a sow piddles.
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I am an arrogant and impatient listener  but in the case of a few composers  a very few  when I hear a work I do not like  I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.
— Benjamin Britten
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast  to soften rocks  or bend a knotted oak.
— William Congreve
Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune.
— Anonymous
She was an aging singer who had to take every note above 'A' with her eyebrows.
— Montague Glass
Going to the opera  like getting drunk  is a sin that carries its own punishment with it and that a very severe one.
— Hannah More
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
— Ed Gardner
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.
— Bing Crosby
If a literary man puts together two words about music  one of them will be wrong.
— Aaron Copland
Music is given to us specifically to make order of things  to move from an anarchic  individualistic state to a regulated  perfectly concious one  which alone insures vitality and durability.
— Igor Stravinsky
Music should strike fire from the heart of man  and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
— Beethoven
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.
— William Congreve
Soprano  basso  even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.
— Lord Byron
Why should the devil have all the good tunes?
— Rowland Hill
The musician who always plays on the same string  is laughed at.
— Horace
All of heaven we have below.
— Joseph Addison
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
— John Milton
The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed  Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls  As if that soul were fled.
— George Moore
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
— Bill Nye
Light quirks of music  broken and uneven  Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
— Alexander Pope
The man that hath no music in himself  Nor is no moved with concord of sweet sounds  Is fit for treasons  stratagems and spoils.
— William Shakespeare
There was the door to which I found no key  There was the veil through which 1 might not see.
— Omar Khayyam
There be three things which are too wonderful for me  yea  four which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air  the way of a serpent upon a rock  the way of a ship in the midst of the sea  and the way of a man with a maid.
— Bible
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
— Horace Walpole
Sticks and stones will break my bones  but names will never hurt me.
— English proverb
Father calls me William  sister calls me Will  Mother calls me Willie  but the fellows call me Bill!
— Eugene Field
Adam gave names to all cattle  and to the fowl of the air  and to every beast of the field.
— Bible
And  lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.
— Leigh Hunt
He left the name at which the world grew pale  To point a moral  or adorn a tale.
— Samuel Johnson
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.
— Bible
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
— William Shakespeare
But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him  And makes me poor indeed.
— William Shakespeare
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
— William Shakespeare
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
— Albert Einstein
Born in inquity and conceived in sin  the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
— Thorstein Veblen
The course of nature is the art of God.
— Edward Young
After a debauch of thundershower  the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
From the intrinsic evidence of His creation  the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician .
— Sir James Jeans
Is dishwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.
— G. K. Chesterton
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored climate that seem to me the happiest  but those in which a long stroke of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
— T. S. Eliot
Like a gardener  I believe that what goes down must come up.
— Lynwood L. Giacomini
Nature is a catchment of sorrows.
— Maxine Kumin
Nature is not human-hearted.
— Lao-Tzu
Nature  with equal mind  sees all her sons at play  sees man control the wind  the wind sweep man away.
— Matthew Arnold
The chess-board is the world  the pieces are the phenomena of the universe  the rules of the game are what we call the Laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair  just and patient. But also we know  to our cost  that he never overlooks a mistake  or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
— Thomas Huxley
The unnatural - that too is natural.
— Goethe
There is one glory of the sun and another glory of the moon and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
— Bible
There is something haunting in the light of the moon  it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul  and something of its inconceivable mystery.
— Joseph Conrad
The universe is not hostile  nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.
— John Hughes Holmes
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments - there are consequences.
— Robert G. Ingersoll
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Men argue  nature acts.
— Voltaire
Nature is usually wrong.
— James McNeill Whistler
Speak to the earth  and it shall teach thee.
— Bible
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile  some have a sad expression  some are pensive and diffident  others again are plain  honest and upright.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Gie me a spark o' nature's fire  that's a' the learning I desire.
— Robert Burns
Light may be shed on man and his origins.
— Charles Darwin
I have called this principle  by which each slight variation  if useful  is preserved  by the term natural selection.
— Charles Darwin
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer  of the "Survival of the fittest"  is more accurate  and is sometimes equally convenient.
— Charles Darwin
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry  she carries them
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God  angels  plants... and horseshit.
— Zero Mostel
When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.
— African saying
The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good  an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
— Eric Johnston
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
— Carl Sagan
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
— Tennessee Williams
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
— Francis Bacon
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self-mastery.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Nature thrives on patience  man on impatience.
— Paul Boese
The soil  in return for her service  keeps the tree tied to her  the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.
— Rabindranath Tagore
What mighty battles have I seen and heard waged between the trees and the west wind - an Iliad fought in the fields of air.
— Edith M. Thomas
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay  harvests perish  flowers vanish  but grass is immortal.
— Brian Ingalls
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree  or a yellow birch  or an old acquaintance among the pines.
— Henry David Thoreau
The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat  in the active and passive.
— Dean William R. Inge
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination  but the combination is locked up in the safe.
— Peter de Vries
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall  but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
— Thomas Carlyle
Deep in their roots  all flowers keep the light.
— Theodore Roethke
By nature's kindly disposition  most questions which it is beyond man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
— George Santayana
To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense.
— Ayn Rand
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
— Robert Lynd
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
— Bliss Carman
When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal  when a man destroys one of the works of God  we call him a sportsman.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.
— Gil Stern
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
— William Wordsworth
God's miracles are to be found in nature itself  the wind and waves  the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically  but behind them is the hand of God.
— Ronald Reagan
If you wish to know the divine  feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
— Eido Tai Shimano Roshi
The radiance in some places is so great as to be fairly dazzling . . . every crystal  every flower a window opening into heaven  a mirror reflecting the Creator.
— John Muir
Nature is too thin a screen  the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
— Walt Whitman
Look deep  deep into nature  and then you will understand everything better.
— Albert Einstein
Come forth into the light of things. Let nature be your teacher.
— William Wordsworth
If you watch how nature deals with adversity  continually renewing itself  you can't help but learn.
— Bernie Siegel
Rivers and rocks and trees have always been talking to us  but we've forgotten how to listen.
— Michael Roads
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings: Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine into flowers  the winds will blow their freshness into you  and the storms  their energy and cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
— John Muir
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
— Patch Adams
The sun - my almighty physician.
— Thomas Jefferson
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns  so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
— Richard Feynman
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools  but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
— Henry David Thoreau
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature  which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
— Cicero
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
— Aristotle
The sun gives us light  but the moon provides inspiration. If you look at the sun without shielding your eyes  you'll go blind. If you look at the moon without covering your eyes  you'll become a poet.
— Serge Bouchard
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit  and the waves dance to the music of its melodies  and sparkle in its brightness.
— Percival
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.
— Ralph Walso Emerson
My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky.
— William Wordsworth
We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest  the butterflies  the song of the birds  if we can't see the stars at night.
— Thomas Berry
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
— Kahlil Gibran
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year  I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit  I can  because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
— Alice Walker
I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight  and tree presences  it is almost like having another being.
— D. H. Lawrence
Nature is saturated with deity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection  not in books alone but in every leaf of springtime.
— Martin Luther
The nicest thing about the promise of spring is that sooner or later she'll have to keep it.
— Mark Beltaire
Spring is nature's way of saying  "Let's party!"
— Robin Williams
It was one of those perfect summer days - the sun was shining  a breeze was blowing  the birds were singing  and the lawnmower was broken.
— James Dent
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time -  we haven't time - and to see takes time  like to have a friend takes time.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Consider the lilies of the field  how they grow  they neither toil nor spin  yet I tell you  even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
— Bible
The AmenT of Nature is always a flower.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless  remain that way. Say nothing  and listen as heaven whispers  "Do you like it? I did it just for you."
— Max Lucado
Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature.
— Gerard de Nerval
Flowers always make people better  happier  and more helpful  they are sunshine  food  and medicine to the soul.
— Luther Burbank
Earth laughs in flowers.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.
— Francis Bacon
The kiss of sun for pardon  The song of the birds for mirth One is nearer God's Heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth.
— Dorothy Gurney
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
— Joseph Joubert
All gardening is landscape painting.
— Alexander Pope
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms  and did my duty faithfully  though I never received one cent for it.
— Henry David Thoreau
The next time it begins to rain ... lie down on your belly  nestle your chin into the grass  and get a frog's-eye view of how raindrops fall . . . The sight of hundreds of blades of grass bowing down and popping back up like piano keys strikes me as one of the merriest sights in the world.
— Malcolm Margolin
Don't knock the weather  nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
— Kin Hubbard
After rain comes fair weather.
— James Howell
Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.
— Marcelene Cox
This is the day the Lord had made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.
— Bible
Whether one is twenty  forty  or sixty  whether one has succeeded  failed or just muddled along  whether yesterday was full of sun or storm  or one of those dull days with no weather at all  life begins each morning I
— Leigh Mitchell Hodges
Thank God ever morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done  whether you like it or not.
— Charles Kingsley
Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it. . . If you have made mistakes  even serious mistakes  there is always another chance for you. . . . for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down  but the staying down.
— Mary Pickford
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could  some blunders and absurdities have crept in  forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day  you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind  but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly  steadily  enjoying each passing moment  and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.
— Harold B. Melchart
Nothing is worth more than this day.
— Goethe
Normal day  let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you  love you  bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.
— Mary Jean Iron
Yesterday is not ours to recover  but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
When all else is lost  the future still remains.
— Christian Bovee
When I look at the future  it's so bright  it burns my eyes.
— Oprah Winfrey
Earth's crammed with Heaven  And every common bush afire with God.
— E. B. Browning
To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms  she speaks A various language.
— William Cullen Bryant
I love not man the less  but nature more.
— Lord Byron
For Art may err  but Nature cannot miss.
— John Dryden
The woods were made for the hunter of dreams  The brooks for the fishes of song.
— Sam Walter Foss
Nature is a volume of which God is the author.
— William Wordsworth
Nature  like a kind and smiling mother  lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
— Victor Hugo
Accuse not Nature  she hath done her part  Do thou but thine!
— John Milton
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. ... Forests decay  harvests perish  flowers vanish  but grass is immortal.
— John Ingalls
Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.
— Immanuel Kant
Nature abhors a vacuum.
— Francois Rabelais
To hold  as 't were  the mirror up to nature.
— William Shakespeare
I chatter  chatter  as I flow To join the brimming river  For men may come and men may go  But I go on forever.
— Lord Alfred Tennyson
When I would recreate myself  I seek the darkest wood  the thickest and most interminable  and to the citizen  most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place -  a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength  the marrow of Nature.
— Henry David Thoreau
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
— William Shakespeare
Nature has always had more force than education.
— Voltaire
O pilot! 'tis a fearful night  There's danger on the deep.
— Thomas Haynes Bayly
Oh  I am a cook and a captain bold And the mate of the Nancy brig  And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmate And the crew of the captain's gig.
— W. S. Gilbert
Thus  I steer my bark  and sail On even keel  with gentle gale.
— Matthew Green
Hearts of oak are our ships  Hearts of oak are our men.
— David Garrick
Now landsmen all  whoever you may be  If you want to rise to the top of the tree. If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool  Be careful to be guided by this golden rule -  Stick close to your desks and never go to to sea  And you may all be Rulers of the Queen's Navee.
— W. S. Gilbert
Necessity has no law.
— Anonymous
Necessity  the mother of invention.
— Anonymous
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants  it is the creed of slaves.
— William Pitt
Not for myself I make this prayer  But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.
— Countee Cullen
The image of God cut in ebony.
— Thomas Fuller
O black and unknown bards of long ago  How came your lips to touch the sacred fire? How  in your darkness  did you come to know The power and beauty of the minstrel's lyre?
— James Weldon Johnson
In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
— Charles Lamb
The best way to uncolor the Negro is to give the white man a white heart.
— Panin
The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world  and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid  rich and fanciful.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
We can live without our friends but not without our neighbors.
— Thomas Fuller
When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake.
— Horace
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
— Leviticus
The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field  and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.
— Ovid
In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.
— F. D. Roosevelt
Neutrality  as a lasting principle  is an evidence of weakness.
— Louis Kossuth
A wise neuter joins with neither  but uses both  as his honest interest leads him.
— William Penn
The heart is never neutral.
— Shaftesbury
A plague o' both your houses.
— William Shakespeare
You can never plan the future by the past.
— Edmund Burke
Never cut what you can untie.
— Joseph Joubert
I never was ruined but twice - once when I lost a lawsuit  and once when I gained one.
— Voltaire
I was never less alone than when by myself. 
— Edward Gibbon
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
— Henry David Thoreau
Never give in  never give in  never  never  never  never - in nothing great or small  large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
— Winston Churchill
Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.
— D. H. Lawrence
I like to visit New York  but I wouldn't live there if you gave it to me.
— American Saying
If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson  called New York.
— O. Henry
Vulgar of manner  overfed. Overdressed and underbred  Heartless  Godless  hell's delight  Rude by day and lewd by night  Bedwarfed the man  o'ergrown the brute  Ruled by boss and prostitute  Purple-robed and pauper-clad  Raving  rotting  money-mad  A squirming herd in Mammon's mesh  A wilderness of human flesh  Crazed with avarice  lust and rum  New York  thy name's Delirium.
— Byron R. Newton
Spick and span new.
— Miguel de Cervantes
What is valuable is not new  and what is new is not valuable.
— Daniel Webster
If a man bites a dog  that is news.
— John Bogart
By evil report and good report.
— Anonymous
As cold waters to a thirsty soul  so is good news from a far country.
— Bible
There's villainous news abroad.
— William Shakespeare
When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
— Voltaire
Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.
— Hannen Swaffer
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight  they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy  they will headline that tragedy.
— Harry A. Overstreet
Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true  except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
— Erwin Knoll
I do not take a single newspaper  nor read one a month and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
— Thomas Jefferson
Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament  but in the reporters' gallery yonder  there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.
— Thomas Carlyle
Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
— Finley Peter Dunne
Remember  son  many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.
— James Gordon Bennett
Don't be afraid to make a mistake  your readers might like it.
— William Randolph Hearst
One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.
— Clifton Fadiman
The sports page records people's accomplishments  the front page usually records nothing but man's failures.
— Earl Warren
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning  we feel a certain void. 'Nothing in the paper today ' we sigh.
— Paul Valery
Carelessness is not fatal to journalism  nor are cliches  for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once  a journalist has to accept the fact that his work  by its very todayness  is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
— Cyril Connolly
He had been kicked in the head by a mule when young  and believed everything he read in the Sunday papers.
— George Ade
An editor - a person employed on a newspaper  whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff  and to see that the chaff is printed.
— Elbert Hubbard
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
— Frank Miller
News is the first rough draft of history.
— Benjamin Bradlee
It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.
— Wilbur F. Storey
What you see is news  what you know is background  what you feel is opinion.
— Lester Markel
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
— A. J. Liebling
A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.
— Arthur Miller
The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know  the second  is to find out who will tell you.
— John Gunther
Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.
— Fred Friendley
A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail  grow indispensable.
— Cyril Connolly
Newspapers are the world's mirrors.
— James Ellis
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government  I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
— Thomas Jefferson
Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.
— Jean de la Fontaine
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
— Napoleon
Let me make the newspapers  and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
— Wendell Phillips
AH I know is what I see in the papers.
— Will Rogers
The Night has a thousand eyes  The Day but one  Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun.
— Francis William Bourdillon
For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.
— Lord Byron
Night's black Mantle covers all alike.
— Guillaume S. du Bartas
Watchman  what of the night?
— Isaiah
Night  when deep sleep falleth on men.
— Anonymous
The night cometh when no man can work.
— Bible
And the night shall be filled with music And the cares  that infest the day  Shall fold their tents  like the Arabs  And as silently steal away.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The night is dark  and I am far from home.
— John Henry Newman
To all  to each  a fair good night  And pleasing dreams  and slumbers light.
— Walter Scott
Making night hideous.
— William Shakespeare
It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard  It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
— Lord Byron
Hark! that's the nightingale  Telling the self-same tale Her song told when this ancient earth was young: So echoes answered when her song was sung In the first wooded vale.
— Christina G. Ross
The angel of spring  the mellow-throated nightingale.
— Sappho
I am not the smartest or most talented person in the world  but I succeeded because I keep going  and going  and going.
— Sylvester Stallone
I know the price of success: dedication  hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Success generally depends upon knowing how long it takes to succeed.
— Charles de Montesquieu
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
— William Feather
If you wish success in life  make perseverance your bosom friend.
— Joseph Addison
They who are the most persistent  and work in the true spirit  will invariably be the most successful.
— Samuel Smiles
If at first you don't succeed  try  try  try again.
— W. E. Hickson
If at first you don't succeed  you're running about average.
— M. H. Alderson
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The only way to the top is by persistent  intelligent  hard work.
— A. T. Mercier
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight  But they  while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up  you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.
— Harrison Ford
Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and  if you know anything about their careers  you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.
— B. C. Forbes
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate  you are sure to wake up somebody.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully  prepare prayerfully  proceed positively  pursue persistently.
— William A. Ward
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
— B. C. Forbes
Persistence is the master virtue. Without it  there is no other.
— Anonymous
It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit  it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
— Robert W. Service
No one succeeds without effort. ... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.
— Ramana Maharshi
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
— Christopher Morley
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures  but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task  but you will succeed if you persevere  and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember  no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
— Helen Keller
The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it.... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.
— Alex Haley
Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.
— Winston Churchill
Plodding wins the race.
— Aesop
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.
— Louis Pasteur
A winner never quits and a quitter never wins.
— Anonymous
In the realm of ideas  everything depends on enthusiasm  in the real world  all rests on perseverance.
— Johann von Goethe
There's such a thin line between winning and losing.
— John R. Tunis
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
— Plautus
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.
— Clare Boothe Luce
When you put your hand to the plow  you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
— Alice Paul
Great is the art of beginning  but greater is the art of ending.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something  then disseminating it.
— Jane Alexander
We rate ability in men by what they finish  not by what they begin.
— Anonymous
A chicken doesn't stop scratching just because worms are scarce.
— Grandma Axiom
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere  or to do anything  never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
— Ulysses S. Grant
I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is  why did other people stop?
— William Stafford
Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.
— Alcmaeon
Business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit.
— J. R. Todd
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
— Katharine Hepburn
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.
— Charles Caleb Colton
I went for years not finishing anything. Because  of course  when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
— Erica Jong
Let no one 'til his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out  and the labor done: Then bring your gauges.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
All is well that ends well.
— John Heywood
In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
— Amelia Earhart
It is a matter first of beginning-and then following through.
— Richard L. Evans
Genius begins great works  labor alone finishes it.
— Joseph Joubert
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
— G. K. Chesterton
The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.
— Judith Krantz
I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done  but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months  but you don't earn the fourth without it.
— Mordecai Richler
When nothing seems to help  I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two  and I know it was not that blow that did it  but all that had gone before.
— Jacob A. Riis
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence  but by oft falling.
— Lucretius
It does not matter how slowly you go  so long as you do not stop.
— Confucius
Live with no time out.
— Simone de Beauvoir
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are  but in what direction we are moving.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
The race is not always to the swift  but to those who keep on running.
— Anonymous
My parents told me that people will never know how long it takes you to do something. They will only know how well it is done.
— Nancy Hanks
By perseverance the snail reached the Ark.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship  sailing across endless oceans  never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly  unexpectedly  it will find mooring for a moment.
— Etty Hillesum
If we are facing in the right direction  all we have to do is keep on walking.
— Ancient Buddhist proverb
It's the steady  constant driving to the goal for which you're striving  not the speed with which you travel  that will make your victory sure.
— Anonymous
Slow and steady wins the race.
— Robert Lloyd
Character is built into the spiritual fabric of personality hour by hour  day by day  year by year in much the same deliberate way that physical health is built into the body.
— E. Lamar Kincaid
No great thing is created suddenly.
— Epictetus
Be content to grow a little each day. If the improvement is the sort of thing which is very slow  do not measure it too often. Do a self-comparison every two weeks  or every six months  whatever is appropriate.
— Lewis E Presnall
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
— Elbert Hubbard
The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
— Marie Curie
One thing at a time  all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.
— J. G. Hubbard
Make haste slowly.
— Augustus
Slow motion gets you there faster.
— Hoagy Carmichael
I'm not there yet  but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
— Anonymous
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
— Margaret Fuller
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You give ioo percent in the first half of the game  and if that isn't enough  in the second half you give what's left.
— Yogi Berra
Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream  my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.
— Anne Shannon Monroe
One can go a long way after one is tired.
— French proverb
The great thing  and the hard thing  is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest  and not yet got the second  which comes with a sort of mastery.
— Janet Erskine Stuart
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
— Napoleon Hill
If something is boring after two minutes  try it for four. If still boring  try for eight  sixteen  thirty-two  and so on. Eventually  one discovers that it is not boring  but very interesting.
— Anonymous
No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.
— Douglas V. Steere
I've been failing for like  ten or eleven years. When it turns  it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period  get the movie out  and put my things in order.
— Francis Ford Coppola
In our day  when a pitcher got into trouble in a game  instead of taking him out  our manager would leave him in and tell him to pitch his way out of trouble.
— Cy Young
I'm a little wounded  but I am not slain  I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
— John Dryden
The tragedy of life is not that man loses  but that he almost wins.
— Heywood Broun
Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.
— Barbara Aronstein Black
Hope says to us constantly  "go on  go on " and leads us to the grave.
— Anonymous
Every great work  every big accomplishment  has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision  and often just before the big achievement  comes apparent failure and discouragement.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort  a little more patience  would have achieved success. A little more persistence  a little more effort  and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
— Elbert Hubbard
When you get to the end of your rope  tie a knot and hang on.
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
It is with enterprises as with striking fire  we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts  and often at the instant when we despaired of success.
— Anonymous
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
— Helen Keller
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you  'til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer  never give up then  for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
— B. C. Forbes
Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work  perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is  "Don't grumble. Plug on!"
— Sir Frederick Treves
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal  while others  on the contrary  obtain a victory by exerting  at the last moment  more vigorous efforts than before.
— Polybius
Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen.
— Peter Brook
Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
— Thomas A. Edison
Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring  fight one more round.
— James J. Corbett
Don't leave before the miracle happens!
— Anonymous
If something doesn't come up the way you want  you have to forge ahead.
— Clint Eastwood
Fortune is like the market  where many times  if you can stay a little  the price will fall.
— Francis Bacon
This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten  and goes on fighting.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.
— Louis L'Amour