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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Anatole France

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Anatole France

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

Anatole France

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Anatole France

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

Anatole France

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Anatole France

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Anatole France

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Anatole France

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

Anatole France

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

Anatole France

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

Anatole France

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Anatole France

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

Anatole France

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Anatole France

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Anatole France

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

Anaxagoras

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

Andre Norton

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Andre Norton

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

Andrei Platonov

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Andrei Sakharov

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Andrew Carnegie

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Andrew Carnegie

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Andrew Carnegie

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Andrew Carnegie

The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.

Andrew Carnegie

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Andrew Carnegie

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Andrew Carnegie

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Andrew Carnegie

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Andrew Carnegie

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Andrew Carnegie

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Andrew Carnegie

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Andrew Carnegie

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Andrew Carnegie

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

Andrew Carnegie

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Andrew Carnegie

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

In approaching our subject it will be best, without attempting to shorten the path by referring to famous theories of the drama, to start directly from the facts, and to collect from them gradually an idea of Shakespearean Tragedy.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

It was generally believed that Catholics were not interested in arts and science graduate schools. They weren't going to be intellectuals. And so I put the theses to the test. And they all collapsed.

Andrew Greeley

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

Andrew Greeley

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad.

Andrew Greeley

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies, especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

Andrew Greeley

I think that the core doctrines of Christianity - the incarnation, the resurrection, life after death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this century.

Andrew Greeley

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

Andrew Greeley

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

Andrew Greeley

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.

Andrew Greeley

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

Andrew Greeley

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

Andrew Greeley

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Andrew Jackson

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

Andrew Jackson

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

Andrew Jackson

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

Andrew Jackson

One man with courage makes a majority.

Andrew Jackson

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

Andrew Jackson

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

Andrew Jackson

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

Andrew Jackson

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Andrew Jackson

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

Andrew Jackson

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Andrew Jackson

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Andrew Jackson

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

Andrew Jackson

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Andrew Jackson

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

Andrew Jackson

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Andrew Jackson

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

Andrew Jackson

The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.

Andrew Jackson

Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.

Andrew Jackson

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

Andrew Jackson

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

Andrew Jackson

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

Andrew Johnson

Honest conviction is my courage the Constitution is my guide.

Andrew Johnson

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

Andrew Johnson

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Andrew Marvell

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Andrew Wyeth

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free.

Andrew Wyeth

It's all in how you arrange the thing... the careful balance of the design is the motion.

Andrew Wyeth

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

Andrew Young

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Andrew Young

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

Andy Griffith

I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life. And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.

Andy Griffith

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Andy Rooney

My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.

Andy Rooney

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Andy Rooney

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Andy Rooney

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.

Andy Rooney

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

Andy Rooney

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

Andy Rooney

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

Andy Rooney

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

Andy Rooney

Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.

Andy Rooney

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

Andy Rooney

A writer's job is to tell the truth.

Andy Rooney

I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points.

Andy Rooney

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

Andy Rooney

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Andy Rooney