58 Random Quotes

1.     Once we're gone, others will walk through the boxes and try to figure out why we needed this, or laugh at why we needed that, or nod their heads and say: "Bless her heart, who would have thought." — Noah benShea

2.      Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat. — Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

3.     One and the same evil comes either from God, who is testing us, or from the devil, who is tempting us. — Denis Diderot (1713-1784) from The Nun

4.      One by one as you swung monkey-wise from branch to branch in the wood of make-believe you reached the tree of knowledge. Sometimes you swung back into the wood, as the unthinking may at a cross-road take a familiar path that no longer leads to home; or you perched ostentatiously on its boughs to please me, pretending you still belonged; soon you knew it only as the vanished wood, for it vanishes, if one needs to look for it. — J. M. Barre (1860-1937) in Peter Pan, a Dedication"

5.      One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. — Malayan Proverb

6.      One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power. — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

7.       One cannot look into other people's souls, everyone is a secret to others. However sympathetic we may find them, it is possible that they will be responsible for the most terrible disappointment. — Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929- )

8.      One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul. — John Muir (1838-1914)

9.     One does not, by knowing all the physical laws as we know them today, immediately obtain an understanding of anything much. — Richard Feynman (1918-1988)

10.  One good thing about snow—it makes your yard look as good as your neighbors! — Unknown

11. One has no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. — George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

12.  One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one. — Henry Miller (1891-1980)

13. One holds his job by knowing how. One becomes boss by knowing why. — Perry Tanksley

14. One intelligent person doesn't go faster just because twenty fools are nipping at his heels. — Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) from "1-999" in The Union Club Mysteries

15.  One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience. — George Sand [pen name of Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin] (1804-1876)

16.  One is not born a woman, one becomes a woman. — Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

17. One kind word can warm three winter months. — Japanese Proverb

18.  One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. — Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

19. One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. — Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695)

20.  One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment. — Hart Crane (1899-1932)

21.  One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper patterns at the right moment. — Hart Crane (1899-1932)

22.  One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. — Marie Curie (1867-1934)

23.  One of my favorite stories recently is about a Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson. He tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. "Which wolf will win, grandfather?" asks the young boy. "Whichever one I feed," is the reply. — Unknown

24.  One of the advantages of pleasure over pain is that for pleasure you can say 'stop'. — Ugo Ojetti (1871-1946)

25. One of the biggest problems with growing old is having all your friends die. Of course, so do your enemies. — Quoted by Esther Reedy

26. One of the deep secrets of Life is that all that is really worth the doing, is what we do for others. — Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832-1898)

27.  One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute. — William Feather (1889-1981)

28.  One of the great joys of being a librarian is that it is the last refuge of the renaissance person—everything you have ever read or learned or picked up is likely to come in handy. — GraceAnne DeCandido

29.  One of the greatest pleasures in life is friendship, and one of the pleasures of friendship is to have someone in whom to confide a secret. — Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873)

30.  One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. — James Earl Jones (1931- )

31. One of the important things about marriage is to be accepted. Love is the basis of marriage, but there are many married people who have never felt accepted. Marriage is not a reformatory, and spouses need to reach out to each other without criticism or reservations. To live with a wife or a husband who does not accept you is a dark valley to walk through. — Charles L. Allen (1913-2005) from Victory in the Valleys of Life

32. One of the keenest pleasures of civilized life is using a word exactly. — Peter Funk

33. One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. — Rita Mae Brown (1944- )

34.  One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. — George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824)

35.  One of the problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think of themselves as underdogs, focusing on their problems rather than their opportunities. Thinking of themselves as underdogs can also dissipate their energies in resentments of others rather than spending that energy making the most of their own possibilities. — Thomas Sowell (1930- )

36. One of these days is none of these days. — English Proverb

37. One Russian to another: As long as their greatest minds are kept occupied trying to define pornography, we've still got a good chance! — Writers' Yearbook, 1967

38.  One should count each day a separate life. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c.1 BC-65 AD)

39. One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. — Thomas Arnold (1795-1842)

40.  Only a fool would choose war over peace—for in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers their sons. — Herodotus (c.490-430 BC)

41. Only about ten to 25 percent of the people in any organization do the creative work. The others simply follow established routines. — Walter M. Carlson

42.  Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. — Stephen King (1947- )

43. Only if we speculate on possible futures can we begin to define desirable goals. — Herbert N. Woodward (1911-2002)

44.  Only in America... do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage. — Internet Grafitti

45.  Only in government is any benefit, however small, considered to be worth any cost, however large. — Thomas Sowell (1930- )

46.  Only librarians like to search, everyone else likes to find. — Roy Tennant

47. Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001)

48. Only one man understood me and he didn't understand me. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

49. Only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom; and in the end superior ability has its way. — Will & Ariel Durant (1885-1981 & 1898-1981)

50.  Only the pure of heart can make good soup. — Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

51. Opinions are flexible prejudices. — Gerald Horton Bath

52. Opportunity dates men of action but marries men of patience. — Noah benShea

53.  Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. — Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

54. Other evils there are that may come... Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule. — J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973) in The Return of the King

55. Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

56.  Our conscience is no defence against our sins. However, it unfortunately denies us the pleasure of enjoying them. — Salvador de Madariaga (1886-1978)

57.  Our greatest and most glorious achievement is to live as we should. Everything else such as ruling, amassing wealth and constructing are at most only adjuncts and props. — Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

58.  Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. — Miquel de Cervantes (1547-1616)