Success is dependent on effort.
- Sophocles

There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.
- Mark Burnett

Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once.
- Mignon McLaughlin

In most communities it is illegal to cry “fire” in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
- Mignon McLaughlin

For us, there is only the trying.  The rest is not our business.
- T.S. Eliot

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different – to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.
- John Fischer

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
- Gloria Pitzer

There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work.
- Joseph de Maistre

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
- Mohandas Gandhi

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
- Jim Rohn

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.
- Author Unknown

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.
- James Allen

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts.  This is the secret of success.
- Swami Sivananda

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
- Confucius

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.
- Enrique Jardiel Poncela

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
- Vince Lombardi

The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort, who never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
- Arnold Bennett

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
- Colin Powell

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

God gave us two ends one to sit on and one to think with.  Success depends on which one you use.  Head you win, tail you lose.
- Author Unknown

If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.  He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.
- Robert Brault

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
- Abraham Lincoln

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.
- Mohandas Gandhi

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
- Benjamin Franklin

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
- Edward Gibbon

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
- Bruce Lee

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Gift like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.
- Jane Ellice Hopkins

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
- Chuck Palahniuk

He was a self made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
- Joseph Heller

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
- Calvin Coolidge

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
- Author Unknown

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Much education today is monumentally ineffective.  All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.
- John W. Gardner

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
- Walt Disney

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
- John Dewey

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost

They say that we are better educated than our parents’ generation.  What they mean is that we go to school longer.  It is not the same thing.
- Richard Yates

Education is the movement from darkness to light.
- Allan Bloom

It’ll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.
- Author unknown

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
- George Santayana

Education is the transmission of civilization.
- Will Durant

The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.
- Herbert Spencer

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
- William Haley

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education.  Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.
- Albert Edward Wiggam

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but ’tis the schoolboys who educate him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
- Ambrose Bierce

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank

The tragedy of education is played in two scenes – incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils.
- Martin H. Fischer

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins

Education aims to give you a boost up the ladder of knowledge.  Too often, it just gives you a cramp on one of its rungs.
- Martin H. Fischer

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong.
- Russell Baker

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
- Aristotle

If I had learned education I would not have had time to learn anything else.
- Cornelius Vanderbilt

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
- Albert Einstein

I never completed high school and I am very rich and very successful.
- Tre Cool

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman

If a man is a fool, you don’t train him out of being a fool by sending him to university.  You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.
- Desmond Bagley

Somebody said to me this morning, ‘To what do you attribute your longevity?’ I don’t know. I mean, I couldn’t have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I’ve lived the last 30 years!
- Ozzy Osbourne

All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.
- Thomas Szasz

Wherever there’s money, there’s drugs, so to say drugs don’t exist in the NBA would be stupid.
- Dennis Rodman

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.
- Sébastien Roch Nicolas

Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food – unless, of course, it’s a mallard.
- Ted Nugent

Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
- Abbie Hoffman

The real problems are cultural. The problems of the people who take drugs as a cultural trap – I think there’s a real problem there, the crack stuff, the hopelessness of the junkie. The urban angst.
- Jerry Garcia

Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.
- Robin Williams

Drugs may be the road to nowhere, but at least they’re the scenic route.
- Author Unknown

I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police.
- Keith Richards

If you don’t think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD’s and burn them.
- Bill Hicks

If God dropped acid, would he see people?
- Steven Wright

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.
- William Osler

It’s so easy for a kid to join a gang, to do drugs… we should make it that easy to be involved in football and academics.
- Snoop Dogg

Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system.
- P.J. O’Rourke

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
- Fran Lebowitz

Don’t do drugs because if you do drugs you’ll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.
- John Hardwick

There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I’ll still be paying for my prior use.
- Layne Staley

Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window except that the birds might eat them.
- Martin H. Fischer

I’m actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won’t be music or anything, it’s more to do with drinking and smoking. it’s an art piece.
- Vince Clarke

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
- Lara Flynn Boyle

He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.
- Edward George Bulwer Lytton

Please don’t throw your cigarette butts in the urinal.  It makes them soggy and hard to light.
- Author Unknown

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
- George F. Burns

I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don’t know to quit smoking.
- Christy Turlington

I’m sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don’t think there’s any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
- Howard Stern

I used to smoke two packs a day and I just hate being a nonsmoker…. but I will never consider myself a nonsmoker because I always find smokers the most interesting people at the table.
- Michelle Pfeiffer

I do smoke in real life. A lot. We’re all smoking right now in fact.
- Michael Imperioli

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.
- Luis Buñuel

Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early ’50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.
- Christopher Plummer

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day.  I haven’t had time for tobacco since.
- Arturo Toscanini

I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That’s the kind of customers we need!
- Jesse Helms

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
- Winston Churchill

If you must smoke, take your butt outside.
- Author Unknown

Forcing smoke down my lungs is pulmonary rape.  It invades my body against my will, and it’s not fair.
- Patty Young

Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.
- Loni Anderson

Thank heaven, I have given up smoking again!… God! I feel fit.  Homicidal, but fit.  A different man.  Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.
- A.P. Herbert

The best way to stop smoking is to carry wet matches.
- Author Unknown

Cigarettes are killers that travel in packs.
- Author Unknown

I’m glad I don’t have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and put them in my mouth.
- Mignon McLaughlin

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke.  If they’d only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.
- Mignon McLaughlin

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.
- Katharine Whitehorn

Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing.
- Joan Chen

smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
- Fletcher Knebel

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.
- Phyllis Battelle

I’d rather kiss a mad cow on the muzzle than a smoker on the mouth.
- Paul Carvel

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure.  It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.  What more can one want?
- Oscar Wilde

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
- Baltasar Gracian

It’s the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have time.
- Tallulah Bankhead

Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.
- Samuel Paterson

No one knows how it is that with one glance a boy can break through into a girl’s heart.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.
- Anonymous

Go girl, seek happy nights to happy days.
- William Shakespeare

If you can make a girl laugh – you can make her do anything.
- Marilyn Monroe

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
- Abraham Lincoln

I wrote the story myself. It’s about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
- Mae West

To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.
- Benjamin Franklin

Friends are the sunshine of life.
- John Hay

When a girl goes bad–men go right after her.
- Mae West

Hold a true friend with both your hands.
- Nigerian Proverb

After all, a girl is – well, a girl. It’s nice to be told you’re successful at it.
- Rita Hayworth

Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.
- Claude Mermet

Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct – girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.
- Elizabeth Missing Sewell

I do it for the joy it brings, cause I’m a joyful girl. ‘Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.
- Ani Difranco

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
- Jerome Cummings

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.
- Hasidic Saying

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

I’ve been looking for a girl like you not you, but a girl like you.
- Groucho Marx

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
- Unknown

Any girl can look glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
- Hedy Lamarr

I went out last night and all the girls ignored me.
- Leonardo DiCaprio

Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.
- Jewish Saying

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
- Hillaire Belloc

You may admire a girl’s curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.
- Mae West

Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her – when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?
- Helen Rowland

Anyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
- Author Unknown

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.
- Author Unknown

Recklessness is a species of crime and should be so regarded on our streets and highways.
- Marlen E. Pew

I don’t want to argue with my wife about her car – or my driving.
- Dale Earnhardt

I found my first novel difficult. I don’t want to make it sound like it’s any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.
- Anthony Doerr

And I, I took the road less traveled by.  I was using a GPS system.
- Robert Brault

I don’t have any expectations as an actor and being rich and famous is not my driving force.
- James D’arcy

Automobiles are not ferocious it is man who is to be feared.
- Robbins B. Stoeckel

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere – it is a lonely place. It’s an isolated city in that respect because you’re driving to places alone listening to the radio.
- Jason Schwartzman

The elderly don’t drive that badly; they’re just the only ones with time to do the speed limit.
- Jason Love

Because I’m a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I’m rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.
- Coolio

I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let’s just say, a lot.
- Bruce McCulloch

On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking 40 days to find a place to park.
- Curtis McDougall

We are not proving ourselves spiritually worthy of our material progress.  We have not been neighborly, courteous, and kind upon the highway.  Our lack of decency toward our fellow men is a definite black mark against us.
- Cary T. Grayson

Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due.
- Author Unknown

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?
- Samuel Hoffenstein

The automobile has not merely taken over the street, it has dissolved the living tissue of the city.  Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable; moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic.
- James Marston Fitch

Remember folks, street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70 mph.
- Jim Samuels

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said “Watch for Rocks.” Marta said it should read “Watch for Pretty Rocks.” I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke – just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!
- Jack Handy

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
- Dudley Moore

Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways.
- Will Rogers

And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.
- Jerry Falwell

If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane.
- Author Unknown

I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge.
- Don Sherwood

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: – ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’
- Martin Luther King

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
- Henry David Thoreau

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
- John Barrymore

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
- Eugene Ionesco

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
- Douglas H. Everett

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
- Ashleigh Brilliant

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.
- Bill Watterson

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
- Homer

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.
- Evelyn Waugh

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- William Shakespeare

Dreams say what they mean, but they don’t say it in daytime language.
- Gail Godwin

A dream has power to poison sleep.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dreams are free therapy, but you can only get appointments at night.
- Grey Livingston

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
- Christopher Reeve

Dreams are road signs along the nighttime highway of sleep.
- Astrid Alauda

In dreams begins responsibility.
- William Butler Yeats

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
- Jesse Owens

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.
- Aeschylus

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
- H.F. Hedge

I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.
- Oprah Winfrey

We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
- Victor Hugo

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
- Terry Pratchett

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it…. We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
- Paracelsus

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

Dreams are free, so free your dreams.
- Astrid Alauda

Dreams are free therapy.  Consult your inner Freud.
- Grey Livingston

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
- Rita Rudner

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!
- David Starr Jordan

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it’s a man or a dog; they’re the best for everyday.
- George Bernard Shaw

The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
- Author Unknown

I love a dog.  He does nothing for political reasons.
- Will Rogers

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
- Ogden Nash

I like driving around with my two dogs, especially on the freeways. I make them wear little hats so I can use the car-pool lanes.
- Monica Piper

Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot little puppies.
- Gene Hill

Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.
- Josh Billings

If you don’t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.
- Roger Caras

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
- Roger Caras

The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
- Madame de Stael

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love.  For me they are the role model for being alive.
- Gilda Radner

The dog is a yes-animal very popular with people who can’t afford to keep a yes-man.
- Robertson Davies

The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
- Ambrose Bierce

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
- Lord Byron

I loathe people who keep dogs.  They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves.
- Author Unknown

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s.
- Mark Twain

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won’t buy the wag of his tail.
- Josh Billings

I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.
- Robert Brault

When you leave them in the morning, they stick their nose in the door crack and stand there like a portrait until you turn the key eight hours later.
- Erma Bombeck

A dog can express more with his tail in seconds than his owner can express with his tongue in hours.
- Author Unknown

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
- Karel Capek

Any member introducing a dog into the Society’s premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound.  Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat.
- Oxford Union Society

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
- Max Eastman

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can.  That’s almost $7.00 in dog money.
- Joe Weinstein

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
- Robert Benchley

Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man, without his Vices.  This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the Memory of Boatswain, a Dog.
- George Gordon

Man is a dog’s idea of what God should be.
- Holbrook Jackson

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
- Charles de Gaulle

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
- Lajos Kossuth

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor’s throat without having his neighbor notice it.
- Trygve Lie

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it… You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
- Will Rogers

He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
- George P. Shultz

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost

Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
- W. Averell Harriman

If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don’t try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
- Richard Perle

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy – give one and take ten.
- Mark Twain

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.
- Tony Benn

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
- Caskie Stinnett

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.
- Mahmoud Abbas

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
- Mark Twain

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
- Andrew Young

The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key… and bolt the door at once.
- Andrew Jackson

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
- Henry Wotton

I don’t think that anybody should be ruling in or ruling out anything while we are conducting diplomacy.
- Douglas Feith

International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smouldering one.
- Ambrose Bierce

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
- Daniele Vare

I never refuse I contradict. I sometimes forget.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.
- Allen Boyd

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
- Moliere

Diplomat A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
- Caskie Stinett

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
- Chou En Lai

Diplomacy: lying in state.
Oliver Herford

Diplomacy The art of saying “nice doggie” until you can find a rock.
- Wynn Catlin

In the world of diplomacy, some things are better left unsaid.
- Lincoln Chafee

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
- Daniel Pipes

American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.
- Charles G. Dawes

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.  Coincidence?  I think not!
- Author Unknown

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Winston Churchill

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information:  french-fried potatoes are out.
- Jean Kerr

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
- Jim Davis

I’m in shape.  Round is a shape… isn’t it?
- Author Unknown

Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.
- Author Unknown

Praise is the best diet for us, after all.
- Sydney Smith

I’ve been on a constant diet for the last two decades.  I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds.  By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
- Erma Bombeck

Food is like sex:  when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good.
- Beth McCollister

The cardiologist’s diet:  If it tastes good, spit it out.
- Author Unknown

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.
- Author Unknown

A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline.
- Herbert B. Prochnow

I go up and down the scale so often that if they ever perform an autopsy on me they’ll find me like a strip of bacon – a streak of lean and a streak of fat.
- Texas Guinan

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for they are sticking to their diets.
- Author Unknown

A friend doesn’t go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck

One day it’s going to dawn on the human race that war is as barbaric a means of resolving conflict as cannibalism is as a means of coping with diet deficiencies.
- Bruce Kent

Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to.
- Mimi Sheraton

I think I just ate my willpower.
- Author Unknown

My advice if you insist on slimming:  Eat as much as you like – just don’t swallow it.
- Harry Secombe

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out. I work very hard, and I am worth every cent.
- Naomi Campbell

My wife is a light eater.  As soon as it’s light, she starts to eat.
- Henny Youngman

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner.
- H.S. Leigh

Food has replaced sex in my life; now, I can’t even get into my own pants.
- Author Unknown

Where do you go to get anorexia?
- Shelley Winters

If food is your best friend, it’s also your worst enemy.
- Edward Grandpa Jones,

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
- Irv Kupcinet

In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and cahins.  Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale.
- Stephen Phillips

Life itself is the proper binge.
- Julia Child