Sea quotes and aphorisms, ideas, thoughts, short reflections and meditations about the sea, the ocean and the metaphors about the sea, life, travel and troubles.

The ocean moans over dead men’s bones.
Thomas B. Aldrich

A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man, who has no gills.
Ambrose Bierce

Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
Lord Byron

Sea waves sound reminds me of the beating of my mother’s heart filtered by the amniotic fluid in her placenta. It is an association that, however, cannot calm my anguish for her passing.
Carl William Brown

Praise the sea; on shore remain.
John Florio

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
George Herbert

Where there is a sea there are pirates.
Greek Proverb

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If you can’t change the wind, you must adjust your sails.
Sea proverb

The rougher the seas, the smoother we sail. Ahoy!

If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both salt water mixed with air.
Nayyirah Waheed

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
Vincent Van Gogh

The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves… it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.
Adrienne Rich

There is hope from the sea, but none from the grave.
Irish Proverb

Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds along the pebbled shore of memory!
John Keats

In high seas or in low seas, I’m gonna be your friend… I’m gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide, I’ll be by your side… I’ll be by your side.
Bob Marley

The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective.
Beyoncé

There’s nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater, you realize that you’ve been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.
Dave Barry

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.
Vincent van Gogh

The ridiculous modern bourgeoisie is more interested in a seaside vacation, in the garden of their own house, or in the various optional extras to be mounted on their car than in the real fate of humanity.
Carl William Brown

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Samuel Johnson

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
John Masefield

The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
Alexander Smith

The ocean is a mighty harmonist.
William Wordsworth

The only cure for seasickness is to sit on the shady side of a church in the country.
Author Unknown

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
Hermann Broch

The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities — courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Joseph Conrad

The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
Anne Sexton

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.
Vincent Van Gogh

Theory is a great net that goes fishing in the sea of experience, what is fished, is fished. Especially today, where the waters are very polluted and fish are scarce.
Carl William Brown

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Joseph Conrad

To me, the sea is like a person – like a child that I’ve known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I’m out there.
Gertrude Ederle

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath…
Herman Melville

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.
Le Testament d’Orphée

There are veins in the hills where jewels hide And gold lies buried deep; There are harbor-towns where the great ships ride And fame and fortune sleep; But land and sea though we tireless rove And follow each trail to the end Whatever the wealth of our treasure-trove The best we shall find is a friend.
John J. Moment

I must down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life To the gulls way and the whales way where the winds like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover And a quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long tricks o
John Masefield

The abode of God too is wherever is earth and sea and air and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch that is Jupiter.
Lucan

They went to sea in a sieve they did; In a sieve they went to sea; In spite of all their friends could say.
Edward Lear

In fact the belief in the spherical earth had currency more than a century before Columbus famous voyage. For which cause men may well perceive that the land and the sea are of round shape and form for the portion of the firmament that shows itself in one country does not show itself in another country. And men may well prove by experience and subtle exercise of wit that if a man should find routes by ship that would go to search the world men might go by ship all about the world and around and beneath it….
Sir John Mandeville

Man is so stupid that he despises the companions who sail with him in the stormy sea of troubles of his own existence, while he admires in amazement those who make him sink.
Carl William Brown

Touch the earth love the earth honour the earth her plains her valleys her hills and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.
Henry Beston

Old England is our home and Englishmen are we; Our tongue is known in every clime our flag in every sea.
Mary Howitt

A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline but can also go forth alone in the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society to have our place in it and yet be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton

… and so castles made of sand slip into the sea eventually.
Jimi Hendrix

Interest in global circumnavigation is older than Christianity itself. In fact if the following quotation is to be credited some attempts at circumnavigation predated the birth of Christ: As for the rest of the distance around the inhabited earth which has not been visited by us up to the present time (because of the fact that the navigators who sailed in opposite directions never met) it is not of very great extent if we reckon from the parallel distances that have been traversed by us… For those who undertook circumnavigation and turned back without having achieved their purpose say that they were made to turn back not because of any continent that stood in their way and hindered their further advance inasmuch as the sea still continued open as before but because of their destitution and loneliness.
Strabo

We must plant the sea and herd its animals. Using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about farming replacing hunting.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage the very least as feeling her care and the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Richard Hooker

The surging sea of human life forever onward rolls And bears to the eternal shore its daily freight of souls; Tbough bravely sails our bark today pale Death sits at the prow And few shall know we ever lived a hundred years from
Mary A. Ford

The old wooden shed Stranded in a sea of wheat Waiting for harvest.
Daniel Denault

Bernard Loomers father was a sea captain. He was acquainted with his small place in an uncontrollable nature. In a talk in 1974 Loomer described his fathers instructions about the uses of a baseball glove. The father had just overheard his sons sandlot
William Dean

Over the glittering rattled ladders of shale the birds cross tangential to the sea at night. Hour upon hour you can sense the undulation of wings. If you lift your cheek quite carefully you can feel the kiss and the wisp of air stirred by the inaudible glide.
Jan Haag

L’éternité. Cest la mer mêlee Au soleil [Eternity. It is the sea mingled with the sun.]
Arthur Rimbaud

The time has come the Walrus said To talk of many things: Of shoesand shipsand sealing-wax Of cabbages and kings And why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings.
Lewis Carroll

Shermans buzzin along to de sea Like Moses ridin on a bumblebee.
Stephen Vincent Benet

I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree … and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth.
George Washington

If the sea And the sun Can bleach a bone Til its whiter Than a gull Cleaner than foam Oh how bright My soul Can emerge Purged On the beach Of Christs water And light. And How calm And warm His sand.
Carol Lynn Pearson

Literature feeds on itself, which is why sometimes some writers get indigestion and vomit a sea of nonsense.
Carl William Brown

To the pilot of a deep sea submersible upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. Ill trust you to make sure that doesnt happen.
Dan Rather

How can we fret and stew sub specie aeternitatis – under the calm gaze of ancient Tao? The salt of the sea is in our blood; the calcium of the rocks is in our bones; the genes of ten thousand generations of stalwart progenitors are in our cells. The sun shines and we smile. The winds rage and we bend before them. The blossoms open and we rejoice. Earth is our long home.
Stewart W. Holmes

Power? Its like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it there is nothing there.
Harold Macmillan

O beautiful for spacious skies For amber waves of grain For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
Katharine Lee Bates

Suddenly from behind the rim of the moon in long slow-motion moments of immense majesty there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel a light delicate sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth … home.
Edgar Mitchell

Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which underlies all things and whence all things derive their substance and draw their life.
Dion Fortune

Though they go mad they shall be sane Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again Though lovers be lost Love shall not. And Death Shall Have No Dominion.
Dylan Thomas

To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season murmuring the name of each islet is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.
Nikos Kazantzakis

A gull rides the waves as if Made for the sea A swallow will sail high in the air. Oh let my soul rise let it Soar far and free; Or mount on the high winds of care.
Clara Edmunds-Hemingway

The trumpet! the trumpet! the dead have all heard; Lo the depths of the stone-covered charnels are stirred: From the sea from the land from the south and the north. The vast generations of man are come forth.
Henry H. Milman

Fear not to swear; the winds carry the perjuries of lovers without effect over land and sea thanks to Jupiter. The father of the gods himself has denied effect to what foolish lovers in their eagerness have sworn.
Tibullus

Glory to those who have explored the sea of darkness and what there was to explore. Their folly represents the highest degree of intellect.
Carl William Brown

We watch the liner in the distance glide Out from the sheltered waters of the bay Into the arms of ocean’s vastness won. Enfolded in infinity of tide We lose it and the last faint smoke line gray Merges into the sunset and is gone. Vanished from sight and lost art thou at sea Swallowed in oceans blue immensity? Ah no. Though trackless be the deep and wide Thy pilot shall bring thee triumphantly Into the harbor on the other side.
Edith E. McGee

The sea is God’s thoughts spread out.
Charles Morgan

The Three Ships As I went up the mountain-side The sea below me glitterd wide And Eastward far away I spied On Christmas Day on Christmas Day The three great ships that take the tide On Christmas Day in the morning. Ye have heard the song how thes
Alfred Noyes

Twisting inland the sea fog takes awhile in the apple trees.
Michael McClintock

The use of the sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession thereof.
Queen Elizabeth I

Cease rude Boreas blustering railer! List ye landsmen all to me; Messmates hear a brother sailor Sing the dangers of the sea.
George A. Stevens

The hills have been high for man’s mounting The woods have been dense for his axe The stars have been thick for his counting The sands have been wide for his tracks. The sea has been deep for his diving The poles have been broad for his sway But bravely he’s proved in his striving That Where there’s a will there’s a way.
Eliza Cook

A wet sheet and a flowing sea A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sail And bends the gallant mast. And bends the gallant mast my boys While like the eagle free Away the good ship flies and leaves Old England on the lee.
Allan Cunningham

The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue the fresh the ever free!
Bryan W. Procter

The sea of mass media stupidity with socials has become an ocean of imbecility.
Carl William Brown

What fairy-like music steals over the sea Entrancing our senses with charmed melody?
Mrs. C. B. Wilson

I am obsessed with the edges of things like stone at the edge of the sea when foam breaks into sky or your hand dissolves into my.
Stanley Cooperman

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land!
Humphrey Gilbert

Two battleships assigned to the training squadron had been at sea on maneuvers in heavy weather for several days. I was serving on the lead battleship and was on watch on the bridge as night fell. The visibility was poor with patchy fog so the captain re
Frank Koch

No life can be barren which hears the whisper of the wind in the branches or the voice of the sea as it breaks upon the shore; and no soul can lack happiness looking up to the midnight stars.
William Winter

Speed bonnie boat like a bird on the wing Onward the sailors cry: Carry the lad thats born to be king Over the sea to Skye.
Harold Edwin Boulton

The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Joseph Conrad

To me, the sea is like a person – like a child that I’ve known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I’m out there.
Gertrude Ederle

The sea, washing the equator and the poles, offers its perilous aid, and the power and empire that follow it… “Beware of me,” it says, “but if you can hold me, I am the key to all the lands.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate to be near the sea and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.
William Hazlitt

The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water.
Langston Hughes

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected on the deep.
William James

Ocean separates lands, not souls.
Munia Khan

I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea.
Charlotte Eriksson

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100 gorgeous quotes and aphorisms by great and famous authors and writers edited for the World of English blog by Carl William Brown, a sincere literary avenger. (Find out more about him on Amazon).

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Carl Gustav Jung

Tutte le religioni. Tutto questo canto. Un solo canto. La pace sia con voi.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God’s decree.
Osho

The act of disobedience, as an act of freedom, is the beginning of reason.
Erich Fromm

Man is quite insane. He wouldn’t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.
Michel de Montaigne

Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect … Your have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Carl Gustav Jung

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.
Osho

The ancestors. The dead. It is not a mere metaphor, an encrypted message to indicate the unconscious or something like that. When he speaks of the dead, Jung means the dead. And they are present in the images, they continue to live.
Sonu Shamdasani

Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
Carl Gustav Jung

There is the music of Heaven in all things.
Hildegard von Bingen

What shall I say, O Muslims? I do not know myself; I am neither Christian, nor Jew, nor Zoroastrian, nor Muslim.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

An idiot with a plan can beat a genius without a plan.
Warren Buffett

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
Oscar Wilde

The utter stupidity of humanity and its leaders is also demonstrated by the fact that thousands of atomic bombs have been built without intending to use them; perhaps they are considered a long-term investment.
Carl William Brown

Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

Frankly, if a fateful and providential disaster were to wipe out two-thirds of the world’s population, I couldn’t help but be happy. I suffer more when I see a leaf fall from a tree.
Carl William Brown

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
Carl Gustav Jung

The development and growth of tools connected to or managed by artificial intelligence proceeds proportionally with the general imbecility of the world population.
Carl William Brown

I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.
Cicero

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. … The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Gustav Jung

As artificial intelligence develops, natural stupidity also increases indiscriminately.
Carl William Brown

All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.
Osho

The cyclical and repetitive essence of matter, while astonishing on the one hand, is also monotonous and boring, comical and pathetic on the other.
Carl William Brown

Hildegard, the human soul is ‘symphonic’; music is part of the profound nature.
Hildegard von Bingen

Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, but everything is transformed, and in the process, a huge pain in the ass is created.
Carl William Brown

Socialism may begin with the best of intentions, but it always ends with the Gestapo.
Winston Churchill

Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.
Osho

Ai bambini bisogna insegnare a pensare, non cosa pensare.
Margaret Mead

I dropped out of school at age 15 with virtually no money and no education. If I could make big money in the stock market, think about how well you can do. There is no reason you shouldn’t be able to achieve far more than I have.
Mark Minervini

Where the environment is stupid, or prejudiced, or cruel, it is a mark of merit to oppose it.
Bertrand Russell

A man is born to work, to suffer and to fight; he who doesn’t, must perish.
Nikola Tesla

We reject: kings, presidents, and voting. We believe in: rough consensus and running code.
David Clark

Individual imbecility, integrating and adapting to universal stupidity, can generate a certain unconscious and fleeting satisfaction.
Carl William Brown

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
Denis Diderot

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.
Anne Frank

The historian, the futurist, the surrealist, and the nihilist move in environments that do not exist, following the trail of death and stupidity.
Carl William Brown

Mathematics is just a language, and as such, it’s conventional, arbitrary, and capable of expressing a lot of bullshit.
Carl William Brown

But the devil was so tired that he left everything to men, who knew how to do things better than he did.
Leonardo Sciascia

Social life is a distraction, real intelligence thrives in isolation.
Nikola Tesla

War in Iran, China offers the Islamic regime the following sacred texts: The Art of War (Sun Tzu), Tao Te Ching (Lao Tzu), The Analects (Confucius), the Bible (Various Authors), all accompanied by a huge load of pork.
Carl William Brown

C’è la musica del Cielo in tutte le cose.
Ildegarda di Bingen

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity explains so much.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.
Albert Einstein

I have great faith in fools, – self-confidence my friends will call it.
Edgar Allan Poe

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a person’s estate, but in their souls.
Antisthenes

If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.
Francois Rabelais

Civilized man has traded a portion of his chance for happiness for a measure of security.
Sigmund Freud

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
William Blake

What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

The father of modern stress research, Hans Seyle, claims that stress doesn’t depend so much on what happens, but on how we interpret it. That may be true, but I wish him every possible misfortune, and then we’ll see.
Carl William Brown

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
Virginia Woolf

You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.
Jim Otto

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.
Gene Tunney

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Hannah Arendt

I am not a glutton – I am an explorer of food.
Erma Bombeck

Reason is the root, through which the resonant word flourishes.
Hildegard von Bingen

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech.
Hildegard von Bingen

Syncretinism is the most updated keyword of the modern catholic church.
Carl William Brown

A nation that displays the shitty faces of poor religious idiots on the walls of its cities must by strict logic necessarily be destroyed, never mind the international law of stupidity.
Carl William Brown

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Those who lack a certain amount of free time are cut off from many of the best things.
Bertrand Russell

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
Anacharsis

If you don’t become aware of the three idiots within you, you will never become a sage. It is by overcoming the three idiots that one truly becomes wise.
Osho

Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.
Jalal al-Din Rumi

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

Religions are the cradles of despotism.
Marquis De Sade

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
Dean William R. Inge

The common man with extraordinary power represents the greatest danger to humanity, not the demon or the sadist.
Erich Fromm

I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day…
Lord Byron

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.
Carl Gustav Jung

We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won’t be offended.
Morgan Freeman

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn’t become king. He gets lynched.
Aldous Huxley

Religion is the opium of the masses.
Karl Marx

Religion: a daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Ambrose Bierce

A mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table.
Aristotle

A person who lives in a sort of sleep can never be intelligent – and awareness is the purest flame of intelligence.
Osho

El Estado es una banda de ladrones, compuesta por los individuos más inmorales, codiciosos y sin escrúpulos de cada sociedad.
Murray Rothbard

The beautiful is nothing but the terrible at its beginning (Denn das Schöne ist nichts / als des Schrecklichen Anfang.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
Thomas Eliot

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
Aristophanes

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
Seneca

I have found God, but he is insufficient.
Henry Miller

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards.
Mark Twain

El Estado es peor que una mafia. Es más grande, más criminal y además tiene escuelas. Una mafia normal te roba y te deja en paz.
Miguel Anxo Bastos

Religion is man’s twisted thinking, out of which temples are erected to realize it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Unless a person is stupid he cannot be a politician. It is not that the politicians are stupid – in fact, only stupid people are attracted towards politics.
Osho

Human biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
Erich Fromm

The word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Gustav Jung

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.
Thomas Jefferson

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
Buddha

Much learning does not teach understanding.
Heraclitus

God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.
Osho

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.
Marcus T. Cicero

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
Aesop

The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
Marcus Aurelius

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Carl Gustav Jung

The world is full of tragic or comic, heroic or bizarre or surprising things, and those who fail to engage with the spectacle it offers miss one of life’s privileges.
Bertrand Russell

The only truly rich are those who desire no more than they already possess.
Erich Fromm

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Osho quotes and aphorisms, famous phrases and great words of wisdom from the great Indian nonconformist thinker, philosopher, mystic and spiritual master.

OSHO – never born, never died. He only visited this planet Earth between December 11, 1931, and January 19, 1990.
Osho Epitaph

Never speak of me in the past tense”. My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.
Osho

A borrowed truth is the greatest lie in the world. Truth can only be true when it is based on your own experience, utterly your own experience.
Osho

A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.
Osho

A child needs immense privacy, as much as possible, a maximum of privacy, so that he can develop his individuality. (Here are a few more good parenting tips)
Osho

A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life – the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.
Osho

A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.
Osho

A woman is one of the most beautiful phenomena in the world; not to be compared with anything else. The woman is the masterpiece of god.
Osho

Accept the fact that we are strangers; that we don´t know who you are, that you don´t know who I am. I myself don´t know who I am, so how can you know?
Osho

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.
Osho

All beliefs suffocate and all beliefs help you not to be really alive. They deaden your being.
Osho

All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.
Osho

Anger transformed becomes compassion. Sex transformed becomes prayer. Greed transformed becomes sharing.
Osho

Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance!
Osho

Be a drunkard, drunk with life, with the wine of existence. Don’t remain sober. The sober person remains dead.
Osho

Be aware – deep down you are really attached to your negative emotions. They are your ego.
Osho

Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!
Osho

Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost.
Osho

Be. Don’t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
Osho

Bravery does not mean being fearless. It means to be full of fear but still not being dominated by it.
Osho

By ‘Love’ people mean a certain kind of monopoly understanding a simple fact: that the moment you possess a living being you have killed him.
Osho

Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.
Osho

Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.
Osho

Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment.
Osho

Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.
Osho

Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not-doing, and that is awareness, watchfulness.
Osho

Don´t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again.
Osho

Don’t analyze, celebrate it.
Osho

Don’t be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.
Osho

Don’t be bothered by perfection. Replace the word ‘Perfection’ by ‘Totality. Totality will give you a different dimension.
Osho

Don’t be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don’t condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.
Osho

Don’t expect, and there will be no frustration. Frustration is just a shadow which follows expectation.
Osho

Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant.
Osho

Don’t pay much attention to fear, because that is dangerous. If you pay much attention to fear you are feeding it, and it will grow.
Osho

Don’t postpone anything beautiful for tomorrow. Live intensely, live totally, here and now.
Osho

Drop comparing and life is really beautiful. Drop comparing and you can enjoy life to the full.
Osho

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
Osho

Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing. They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.
Osho

Dropping the mask and bringing out your original face is the whole alchemy of meditation.
Osho

Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.
Osho

Eyes which have lost their tears have lost their most beautiful, their most glorious treasure.
Osho

Fools are more healthy then the so-called wise. Thy live in the moment and they know that they are fools, so they are not worried about what others think about them.
Osho

Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much.
Osho

Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.
Osho

Freedom is our most precious treasure. Don’t lose it for anything.
Osho

Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point.
Osho

Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
Osho

Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.
Osho

Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor. Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.
Osho

Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God’s decree.
Osho

God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.
Osho

God is a person; godliness is a quality. You cannot become God, but you can be godly.
Osho

Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.
Osho

Happiness is not conditional; nothing is needed to be happy. Only to be alive is needed – and that you are, you already are.
Osho

Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.
Osho

Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.
Osho

I am not anti-life as other religions are. I am absolutely for life, and life in its essence means love.
Osho

I don’t want followers, obedient people. I want intelligent friends, fellow travelers.
Osho

I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.
Osho

I resolve never to make any resolutions because all resolutions are restrictions for the future. All resolutions are imprisonments.
Osho

I would like marriage to disappear completely from the world, and with marriage, divorce will disappear.
Osho

I’ll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
Osho

If jealousy disappears and love still remains, then you have something solid in your life which is worth having.
Osho

If love can not keep you together, nothing else can keep you together. And if love cannot keep you together, than anything that can keep you together is dangerous.
Osho

If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from you it cannot flee.
Osho

If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.
Osho

If you are sad you are wrong; if you are joyful you are right.
Osho

If you cannot enjoy your own company, who else is going to enjoy it?
Osho

If you cannot love yourself, you don’t know even the taste of love or what love means.
Osho

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.
Osho

If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable.
Osho

If you live with love, through love, you will live a great life, because love makes everything great.
Osho

If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love. So if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho

If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationship with others, it is only you mirrored.
Osho

If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.
Osho

If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.
Osho

If you work without love, you are working like a slave. When you work with love, you work like an emperor. Your work is your joy, your work is your dance.
Osho

In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.
Osho

Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.
Osho

Intelligence never grows by imitation: Intelligence grows by experimentation. Intelligence grows by taking challenges.
Osho

It cannot be called freedom, a freedom which can choose only the right and not the wrong; then that is not freedom.
Osho

It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.
Osho

It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser.
Osho

It is always death that comes before your desires are fulfilled. Even if you live for a thousand years your desires are not going to be fulfilled.
Osho

It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates you.
Osho

It is better to be ignorant; at least the ignorance is yours. It is authentic, it is real, sincere and honest!
Osho

It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection.
Osho

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love, it matters only that you love.
Osho

It’s not a question of learning much. On the contrary. It’s a question of unlearning much.
Osho

Just get out of your own way.
Osho

Just see how much respect God has paid to you. You are a masterpiece – unrepeatable, incomparable, utterly unique.
Osho

Knowledge is borrowed; knowing is yours, your own. It is authentic knowledge is information, knowing is transformation.
Osho

Life begins where fear ends.
Osho

Life exists without rules; games cannot exist without rules. Only false religion has rules, because false religion is a game.
Osho

Life has no meaning. Rejoice! It has no meaning. Dance, sing, enjoy! It has no meaning. You need not be serious. It is a cosmic joke.
Osho

Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.
Osho

Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.
Osho

Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!
Osho

Life is a purposeless play, a play of infinite forces-beautiful if you don’t have an achiever’s mind, ugly if you have ambition to become something.
Osho

Life is absolutely balanced between the positive and the negative. Now it is your choice which side you want to be – in heaven or in hell.
Osho

Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity.
Osho

Life is not given to you to murder, to destroy. Life has been given to you to create, and to rejoice, and to celebrate.
Osho

Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.
Osho

Love brings freedom. Loyalty brings slavery.
Osho

Love cannot be taught, it can only be caught.
Osho

Love in itself, or just having a relationship with someone, is not going to give you happiness, unless you bring happiness with you.
Osho

Love is a bird and it loves to be free. It needs the whole sky to grow.
Osho

Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.
Osho

Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person’s individuality, his privacy.
Osho

Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something.
Osho

Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.
Osho

Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage, everything misfires.
Osho

Love is the ultimate, the end. You love for love’s own sake. It is not a means to anything else, it is its own end.
Osho

Love is true only when it does not interfere in the privacy of the other person. It respects his individuality, his privacy.
Osho

Love is true only when it is spontaneous, unplanned, unpracticed, uncultivated, un-thought.
Osho

Love is ultimate, the highest health, because love makes one whole. When you love a master by and by you completely forgot about love.
Osho

Love knows how to forgive. Love cannot hurt and cannot be violent.
Osho

Love lives in waiting – dies in meeting, becomes ordinary.
Osho

Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.
Osho

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.
Osho

Love never dies through separation, never. If it dies at all, it dies through too much togetherness; never by separation.
Osho

Lovers are mirrors to each other. Love makes you aware of your original face.
Osho

Lovers have known sometimes what saints have not known.
Osho

Man is always exploited through fear.
Osho

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.
Osho

Mind is the illusion that which is not but appears, and appears so much that you think that you are the mind.
Osho

Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.
Osho

My enlightenment has freed me from everything, including enlightenment.
Osho

Never ask, “Who is my real friend?” Ask, “Am I a real friend to somebody?” That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself.
Osho

Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.
Osho

Never obey anyone’s command unless it is coming from within you also.
Osho

Never sacrifice your life for anything! Sacrifice everything for life! Life is the ultimate goal.
Osho

Never try to change a person you love, because the very effort to change says that you love half, and the other half of the person is not accepted.
Osho

No, I don’t want to give my people sticks. I want to give them eyes.
Osho

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.
Osho

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
Osho

Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.
Osho

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.
Osho

Once I was on a journey and someone asked me which word in a man’s vocabulary was the most valuable. My reply was, Love.
Osho

Once you have tasted the juice of the present, you don’t care about dangers. Once you are in tune with life then nothing matter. Life all there is.
Osho

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.
Osho

One day you will disappear on a funeral pyre – just into nothingness, as smoke. Don’t get attached to anything.
Osho

One who thinks in terms of superiority will always remain inferior because these are two aspects of the same coin.
Osho

Only idiots are not controversial.
Osho

Only people suffering from inferiority complex want to impress others. A really superior person never compares himself with anybody else.
Osho

Only silence communicates the truth as it is.
Osho

Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.
Osho

People are not things, you cannot have ownership.
Osho

People love freedom – but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable.
Osho

People say love is blind because they do not know what love is. I say unto you, only love has eyes; other than love, everything is blind.
Osho

Perfect people don’t exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.
Osho

Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.
Osho

Real love is not an escape from loneliness, real love is an overflowing aloneness. One is so happy in being alone that one would like to share.
Osho

Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.
Osho

Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.
Osho

Remember it is not only you who are seeking truth – truth is also seeking you.
Osho

Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, “I cannot live spontaneously.
Osho

Respect your life. Out of that respect you will start respecting life in others.
Osho

Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.
Osho

Sadness comes, joy comes, and everything passes by. What remains always is the witness. The witness is beyond all polarities.
Osho

Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.
Osho

Suicide leads nowhere, it simply enters your consciousness into another womb of a lower kind, because you could not manage to live on a higher level.
Osho

Take it easy, and remember “Easy is Right.”
Osho

Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.
Osho

That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.
Osho

That’s why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.
Osho

The ego is an island in the ocean of Hell. You want to get rid of the Hell but you don’t want to get rid of that island. Then there is trouble.
Osho

The existence loves you, otherwise you would not be here. Relax into your being, you are cherished by the whole.
Osho

The greatest freedom is to be free of one’s own mind.
Osho

The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark ‘?’ and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.
Osho

The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.
Osho

The Mind: a beautiful servant, a dangerous master.
Osho

The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on you. They should grow with your awareness, in you.
Osho

The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody’s opinion.
Osho

The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.
Osho

The people who ask what is the meaning of life are the people who have missed life, who are alive because they are still breathing; otherwise they are dead.
Osho

The person who can be happy alone is really an individual. If your happiness depends on the others. You are slave. You are yet not free. You are in bondage.
Osho

The person who enjoys his life has no desire to possess, because he knows the real things of life which are worth enjoying cannot be purchased.
Osho

The person who trusts can relax into existence. The person who cannot trust remains tense, remains anxious, afraid.
Osho

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.
Osho

The society is ill;individuals are victims. Society needs therapy;individuals simply need love. The society is the patient and needs hospitalization.
Osho

The ultimate state of love is freedom, absolute freedom, and any relationship that destroys freedom is not worthwhile.
Osho

The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived. That which is lived becomes divine and that which is not lived becomes the devil.
Osho

There has never been a person like you before, there is nobody else like you right now in the whole world, and there will never be anybody like you.
Osho

These are the only two real emotions and love. If you don’t love, you will be in fear. If you are in fear, you cannot love. If you love, fear is impossible.
Osho

This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creation.
Osho

This world is just a game. Winners lose and losers win the game is still the same. This life is just a play. Those who say dont know and those who know dont say.
Osho

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
Osho

To choose is to choose a prison; to choose is to choose a bondage. To choose is wrong, to be choiceless is to be right.
Osho

To create guilt, all that you need is a very simple thing: start calling mistakes, errors sins. They are simply mistakes, human.
Osho

To love means to drop the ego, to drop yourself. Love means not to BE.
Osho

To possess anything is to be possessed by it. The more you possess, the more slavery you create around yourself.
Osho

Tomorrow-drop that word from your vocabulary! Tomorrow does not exist, it cannot exist: it is not in the nature of things. Only this day exists.
Osho

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.
Osho

U bring a beautiful prince;in the morning he becomes a frog! Every prince turns into a frog in the end. And then you are puzzled: What went wrong.
Osho

Unless you love yourself, you can’t love anybody. Be selfish.
Osho

Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind.
Osho

We have to change this world by celebrating, by dancing, by singing, by music, by meditation, by love, not by struggle.
Osho

We remain unnecessarily worried. All worries are futile because that which is going to happen is going to happen.
Osho

Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind;don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet.
Osho

Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.
Osho

Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.
Osho

When I say that you are Gods and Goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite.
Osho

When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.
Osho

When you are different the whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world. It is only a ques of creating a different you.
Osho

When you really laugh for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together.
Osho

When your ego is no more, only then will you know who you are.
Osho

Whenever you plan for love, whenever deliberateness enters into it it becomes phony and false.
Osho

Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.
Osho

Whoever may have died right now, each death is your death, because each death is a reminder that you are not going to be here forever.
Osho

You are a great problem-creator. Just understand this and suddenly problems disappear.
Osho

You are creating your own hell.
Osho

You can become happy just by deciding to be happy.
Osho

You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.
Osho

You cannot think about love. Either you can love, or you cannot, but you cannot think about it.
Osho

You don’t have any problems. Only this much has to be understood. This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creations.
Osho

You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and one things, not only from others but from ourselves.
Osho

You just listen to your own heart – that is your only teacher. In the real journey of life, your own intuition is your only teacher.
Osho

You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.
Osho

Your heaven and your happiness is always somewhere else; it is never where you are. Real happiness is always HERE, it is always NOW.
Osho

Your honesty, Your love, Your compassion should come from your inner being, not from teachings and scriptures.
Osho

Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.
Osho

Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated.
Osho

Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.
Osho

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Stultorum infinitus est numerus. Some quotes and aphorisms about stupidity, with links to other posts of quotes and articles about stupidity and power.

A great number of people talk too much, but pragmatically act too little, and if they try, they can only do stupid and dangerous things. Any reference to Italian politicians are quite imaginary and clearly unreal.
Carl William Brown

If our politicians, legislators, public administrators, legal judges, lawyers, public and private managers, and all the different members of the social, justice, political, economic, scientific, medical and educational organizations were just ordinary intelligent people, I don’t mean geniuses or brilliant thinkers, but only a little bit better than the average human being, how can it be that our world is so stupid, cruel, violent, dirty, unfair, wrongful, painful, polluted, or to put it in simple words, the toilet of the universe, for the vast majority of its population, if not for all its inhabitants at large.
Carl William Brown

People are so fucking stupid. No one reads anymore, no one goes out and watches and explores the society and culture they grew up in. People have five-second attention spans and the depth of a glass of water.
David Bowie

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller

Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve.
Carl William Brown via Eric Fromm

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.
Confucius

Money management is the only strategy to survive in this crazy, stupid and doped financial world market.
Carl William Brown

Humble, stupid and rich people usually vote for excellent and marvellous stupid politicians, so that they can get more satisfaction.
Carl William Brown

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us.
George Bernard Shaw

Being a scholar of stupidity, how might I avoid to thank a lot of people for their existence.
Carl William Brown

It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.
Mick Jagger

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.
Anacharsis

Whoever can’t recognise stupidity at a glance is stupid, and a stupid can’t fight stupidity.
Carl William Brown

Stupidity is the only art that permanently truly exists.
Carl William Brown

Our little planet earth is nothing else but an intergalactic school of stupidity. Anyway if you want to choose the best University for a master or a PhD come to Italy.
Carl William Brown

I don’t know if the human race is human, but certainly it’s stupid.
Carl William Brown

The three enemies of human happiness are pain, stupidity and boredom.
Carl William Brown

The human race is not wicked, but it is stupid, and that’s even worse! Dire straits!
Carl William Brown

How can it be that when I wake up in the morning I often think of my first ideal adolescent impossible love and I still remember vividly that gentle little blonde girl of thirty five years ago? Here is once again an evident proof of the existence of stupidity.
Carl William Brown

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane.
Carl William Brown

Too much bad writing and too many banal deeds in struggle with too few creative thoughts and too few good actions. By the way, what’s the difference between fair and foul.
Carl William Brown

Stupidity is everywhere, so it is extremely difficult to destroy it. That’s why first of all we must observe and find out more, point it out and denounce it.
Carl William Brown

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
Albert Camus

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Albert Einstein

I decided to struggle against stupidity to watch ignorance directly into the eyes.
Carl William Brown

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The Laws of Wellness, a review and analysis of a great book by Greg Anderson about the importance of having a holistic approach to life, health or difficulties.

This book addresses wellness as “the only real and lasting means of health care reform.” In his book, Greg Anderson uses, “Wellness is the complete integration of body, mind, and spirit – the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being.”
John W. Travis

One of the simplest, most sincere and effective books that deserves to be read and followed by all men of good will.
Carl William Brown

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
World Health Organisation

Greg Anderson is the author of six books, including the international bestseller The Cancer Conqueror, and founder of the American Wellness Project. Through lectures and workshops and as a consultant to businesses and health-care organizations, he is recognized as one of America’s foremost wellness authorities.

The author is known for his work in the field of cancer recovery and wellness programs. He founded the Cancer Recovery Foundation International Group of Charities, which is dedicated to supporting individuals dealing with cancer and promoting holistic approaches to cancer care and overall well-being.

He has written six books, including the international bestseller The Cancer Conqueror, an Incredible Journey to Wellness. Through lectures and workshops and as a consultant to businesses and health-care organizations, he is recognized as one of America’s foremost wellness authorities.

Greg Anderson lived an experience that profoundly transformed him: in 1984 he was diagnosed with lung cancer and the poor prognosis gave him just a month to live. Intimately convinced that everyone is responsible for their own state of health, he undertook a healing journey that allowed him to defeat the disease.

Being convinced that well-being is identified in complete harmony between body, mind and spirit and that this state is clearly conditioned by our actions, thought, feeling and belief, Greg Anderson has identified twenty-two rules that emphasize the importance of holistic health and wellness, focusing on various aspects of one’s life, including nutrition, stress management, exercise, and emotional well-being. Greg Anderson’s work has had a positive impact on many individuals facing cancer, as well as those interested in adopting a more comprehensive approach to their health.
Carl William Brown

The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness: Feel, Think, and Live Better Than You Ever Thought Possible by Greg Anderson

Wellness is one of the greatest and most powerful words in the English language. Unfortunately, it is also one of the least understood. But start putting this word into your vocabulary and the concepts it entails into your life. Wellness is one of the most important ideas of our time.

Wellness is the complete integration of body, mind and spirit – the realization that everything we do, think, feel, and believe has an effect on our state of well-being. Wellness is a choice, a decision we make to move toward optimal health and maximum life. Wellness is a process – awareness that there is no end point but health and happiness are always possible in the present moment, here and now.

Wellness is not a “medical fix” but a way of living – a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit; an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever.

Medicine deals with one dimension, the body. Old self-help ideas dealt with one dimension, typically the mind. Wellness involves an all-inclusive paradigm shift. Its practice encompasses six major life areas – the physical, emotional, social, intellectual, vocational, and spiritual spheres. Wellness is not a piecemeal approach; it involves the total you!

Traditional medicine finds a problem – a symptom – treats it. The goal is to neutralize symptoms, to return to a point of no discernible illness. This is the disease model of medicine. Preventive medicine, trumpeted by an increasing number in the medical community, is also based on the disease model. The goal is the same: no discernible illness.

Wellness strives for a new standard. No matter what our state of health, wellness calls for continuing improvement and self-renewal in all areas of life. Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond any disease-free neutral point, wellness dedicates its efforts to our total well-being – in body, mind and spirit.

The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness distills more than a decade of experience in the field of health enhancement and life enrichment into a set of basic laws that govern success and failure in the pursuit of total wellness. This describes the fundamental rules of the wellness pursuit.

Be challenged. Learn. Then do. There’s no substitute for the commitment to implement. I hope my own journey and those of literally tens of thousands of patients. I have learned from and shared with will help you attain greater wellness. You may find some of the laws challenging, but keep in mind that they are all true guideposts for living. I wish you well on your own journey to wellness.

The Law of Esprit: The joy you feel is life!
The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day is a miraculous gift and our job is to untie the ribbons.
That’s the Law of Esprit: living life with joy.

The Law of Personal Accountability: If it’s going to be, it’s up to me. – Robert H. Schuller
It shouts that we have the ability to choose both our behaviors and our responses! It’s more than stress management; it’s personal choice.

The Law of Unity: The part can never be well unless the whole is well. – Plato
Body, mind, and spirit work together.

The Law of Physical Activity: Use it or lose it.
The critical importance of exercise has been recognized for centuries. Modern studies confirming its positive influence are legion. The message is repeated in newspapers and magazines and on television. From grade schools to nursing homes, throughout our lives, the message is clear: we need to exercise! There’s little room to debate the powerful Law of Physical Activity.

The Law of Nutritional Frugality: A little with quiet is the only diet. – Scottish proverb
The core message of the Law of Nutritional Frugality is simple: eat a variety of unprocessed foods, in moderate amounts, during at least three meals, including breakfast, combined with a smart afternoon snack, while drinking eight glasses of pure water and taking a broad-spectrum vitamin-and-mineral supplement each day.

The Law of Minimal Medical Invasiveness: The art of medicine is generally a question of time. – Ovid
Honor and esteem the doctor who says, “We want to treat you right but do only what is absolutely necessary, and with minimum side effects. We’re going to help your body heal!” Here is a person who understands the Law of Minimal Medical Invasiveness.

The Law of Stress-Hardiness: It’s not what happens to you. It’s what you do about it. – W. Mitchell “survivor”
The law states that stress is to be not only expected but preferred. The law’s corollary states that we can and should welcome stress and that we can and should develop a positive, workable approach to stress management.

The Law of Emotional Choice: Learning to be aware of feelings… is an essential lifetime skill. – Joan Borysenko (author of Minding the Body, Mending the Mind)
There’s a hierarchy in our lives that governs our sense of satisfaction. The Law of Emotional Choice is near the top of the heap… The best way to confront fears and anxieties is to invoke the Law of Emotional Choice. Face the fear. Do something about it. Push through it. Go for it! Consistently exercising the Law of Emotional Choice builds an inner strength that is unshakable. This is self-esteem of the best and highest order.

The Law of Developmental Motivation: Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. – Henry Van Dyke
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life! For many, this often means a longer life. The type of motivation that drives our lives is an important part of experiencing total wellness. A deep sense of fulfillment comes only from a serious commitment to a life filled with purpose, with striving for higher ideals. Therein lies true happiness.

The Law of Human Dignity: God created man in His own image. – Genesis
This law won’t allow for such categorizing and judging. Respect is the key… The law of human dignity carries with it a mandate: to stop our pettiness and quit putting each other in little boxes that diminish the dignity and potential of all. In short, when you give me respect and I give you respect, we will both be better for it.

The Law of Win/Win: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. – The Golden Rule
We must stay longer in the communication process. We must express ourselves with greater courage. At the same time, we must listen more carefully and in greater depth. Win/win means we strive for understanding first. We seek to be understood second.

The Law of Present-Moment Living: Be here now. – Ram Dass
It is the antithesis of procrastination. We can put off unpleasant activities, but in doing so we also put off the enjoyable ones. We ration our pleasure and contentment as if the supply were limited.

The Law of Mindfulness: The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven. – John Milton
Choose where you focus, and focus on thoughts that nurture. Concentrate on what you have, not what you’ve lost. You’ll see the results in your health and your life.

The Law of Creativity: Imagination is the eye of the soul. – Joseph Joubert
It calls not for my way or your way, but for the best way. This is the picture, the idea we must find and hold on to without wavering. Then we create wellness in body, mind, and spirit, wellness of the highest level.

The Law of Lifetime Growth: We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. – Goethe
It demands both a cultural change and a megashift in our own thinking about all life can be. This law of wellness represents a great hope for people of all ages, all states of wellness, all cultures.

The Law of Life Mission: He dies every day who lives a lingering life. – Pierrard Poullet
Conventional wisdom says, “If you have your health, you have everything.” Don’t believe it. It’s not so much that this old adage is wrong as that there is a higher truth. The Law of Life Mission holds, “If you have a purpose, you have everything.”

The Law of Purpose Through Service: Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. – Albert Einstein
Mission comes alive only through service – the idea of caring for others. There’s magic in this law. When we serve with depth and sincerity, we get a glimpse of the essential quality of who we really can become… We must think through, personalize, and understand both intellectually and emotionally this idea of finding purpose through helping others.

The Law of Stewardship: If you want happiness for a lifetime, help the next generation. – Chinese proverb
The quest for personal wellness is an illusion without a commitment to the wellness of all and the entire universe. We do not stand alone. The people of this planet are interdependent in all things… The Law of Stewardship requires us to pass the planet on to future generations in a better condition than we found it in… In the final analysis, the Law of Stewardship requires us to manage our lives in such a way that we hold in high regard the welfare of others and leave things better than when we found them. We are all stewards. Let’s rise to meet our responsibilities.

The Law of Forgiveness: Forgiveness restores our hearts to the innocence that we knew – an innocence that allowed us the freedom to love. – Robin Casarjian (author of Forgiveness: A Bold Choice for a Peaceful Heart)
Forgiveness is one of the most beautiful words in the English language. Mark this as one of the great truths of the collective wisdom passed down through the centuries: life can be lived most abundantly as an adventure in forgiveness.

The Law of Gratitude: Affirm the good things.
The wellness path requires us to embrace a proactive expression of sincere gratitude. Try it for a week, a day, an hour. Observe the results. You will be amazed at the changes in yourself, your health, your relationships, your career – your entire life.

The Law of Personal Peace: Without inner peace, it is impossible to have world peace. – The Dalai Lama
The way of peace? Through prayerful meditation, a forgotten and misunderstood discipline. Prayerful meditation is an excellent way to develop increased awareness in all areas of life. But it is essential in attaining and sustaining personal peace.

The Law of Unconditional Loving: … and the greatest of these is love. – Saint Paul
All success, all well-being, all self-improvement has its basis in an unfathomable spirit that sustains us even when we may be least aware of it. That spirit is love.

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Elections quotes and aphorisms, a collection of great quotations and words of wisdom by various great authors offered by the World of English blog and Carl William Brown.

The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country that developed an airtight system of finding out in advance what was in people’s minds would be uninhabitable.
Elwyn Brooks White

Democracy never selects the best leader it always selects the best liar and that is why every democracy eventually fails.
Plato

Assuming that fools consider the people the true sovereign, and that in a democracy they consider them the true ruler, I remind you that the people, between Jesus and Barabbas, chose the thief, and allowed the Messiah to be slaughtered and crucified.
Carl William Brown

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. 
George Jean Nathan

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. 
Oscar Ameringer

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.
Elwyn Brooks White

Don’t blame me. I voted with the majority. 
Author Unknown

Elections are never right or good, they serve only to give morons some power!
Carl William Brown

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. 
Thomas Jefferson

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill

We have plenty of confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our confidence in. 
Will Rogers

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until… lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power… become lovers of wisdom. 
Plato, The Republic

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? 
Will Rogers

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Franklin P. Adams

An election is coming.  Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. 
George Eliot

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. 
Karl Marx

You don’t have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.
Gerald Barzan

Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and all for the same reason. 
José Maria de Eça de Queiroz

To win in this country these days you have got to campaign down to a thirteen year-old’s level of mental development.
Willie Brown

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
Patrick Buchanan

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. 
Richard Armour

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life. 
Elmer Davis

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. 
Charles Krauthammer

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. 
Charles de Gaulle

Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.
Robert C. Byrd

Someone suggested me this definition: politicians, overpaid shit! He might be right!
Carl William Brown

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear. 
Alan Coren

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. 
Louis Brandeis

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn’t be any inducement to go to heaven. 
Will Rogers

George Washington is the only president who didn’t blame the previous administration for his troubles. 
Author Unknown

Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
Billy Connolly

We have a presidential election coming up. And I think the big problem, of course, is that someone will win.
Barry Crimmins

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. 
Henry Cate

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right. 
H.L. Mencken

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
Mario Cuomo

America: where a little thing like a majority won’t get in the way of democracy! 
Author Unknown

Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.
Frank Dane

How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America? 
Author Unknown

Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven’t had one since Taft.  Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln. 
Will Rogers

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.
W. C. Fields

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it. 
Clarence Darrow

Our presidential race is beginning to sound more and more like Harry Potter’s duel with the Ministry of Magic. 
Dave Beard

I always voted at my party’s call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
W. S. Gilbert

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. 
Sydney J. Harris

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? 
Robert Orben

Truth is not determined by majority vote. 
Doug Gwyn

I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it. 
Alexander Woollcott

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election. 
Bill Vaughan

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
Newt Gingrich

Take our politicians: they’re a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. 
Saul Bellow

Everybody except us is running for governor.
Barry Gray

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is… the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. 
Adlai Stevenson

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. 
Robert Byrne

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.
Kin Hubbard

Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster. 
James Harvey Robinson

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. 
Frank McKinney

Anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they blah-blah loud about Democrat or Republican an they huffing an puff about democracy someplace else but relentless, see, the deal come down evil on somebody don have no shirt an tie, somebody don live in no whiteman house no whiteman country.
June Jordan

Democracy:  The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it. 
Benjamin Lichtenberg

I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, “Dear Jack: Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.”
John F. Kennedy

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress? 
Author Unknown

A politician should have three hats.  One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. 
Carl Sandburg

If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal. 
Emma Goldman

During a campaign the air is full of speeches – and vice versa. 
Author Unknown

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. 
James Russell Lowell

A new poll showed that if the election was held today, people would be confused because it is normally held in November.
Kevin Nealon

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen. 
Author Unknown

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Jay Leno

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people.  Of course, that is not true.  Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote – a very different thing. 
Walter H. Judd

Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.
Gerald F. Lieberman

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. 
Author Unknown

If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same.
Abraham Lincoln

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.
Walter Lippmann

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. 
Stewart Udall

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
Clare Boothe Luce

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age.
Marshall McLuhan

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. 
Gore Vidal

I offer my opponents a bargain:  if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. 
Adlai Stevenson

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. 
Winston Churchill

Vote early and vote often.
William Porcher Miles

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Richard M. Nixon

Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about “character issues.” Either that or just go ahead and determine the presidency with three-legged races and pie-eating contests. It would make better TV.
P. J. O’Rourke

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. 
John Gardner

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s-license age than at voting age. 
Marshall McLuhan

There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.
Chris Patten

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. 
Michael Novak

My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker’s union to endorse me.
Claiborne Pell

Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?
H. Ross Perot

The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
American Proverb

The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.
Will Rogers

There isn’t any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.
Will Rogers

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. 
Alexis de Tocqueville

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. 
Meg Greenfield

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. 
James Freeman Clarke

An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
Mort Sahl

Votes should be weighed not counted.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.
Phyllis Schlafly

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw

Everyone was tired with the old style politicians and their flowery rhetoric. I just told them there are tough times ahead, but that they would be less tough with me in charge.
Anibal Cavaco Silva

Indeed, you won the elections, but I won the count.
Anastasio Somoza

The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.
St. Gregory The Great

I’m not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai E. Stevenson

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal — that you can gather votes like box tops — is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Adlai E. Stevenson

If you want to get elected, shake hands with 25, 000 people between and November 7.
Harry S. Truman

Let’s try winning and see what it feels like. If we don’t like it, we can go back to our traditions.
Paul Tsongas

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
Theodore White

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.
John Quincy Adams

Suffrage is the pivotal right.
Susan B. Anthony

Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
Bernard M. Baruch

Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.
Bernard M. Baruch

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think. You may preach to a congregation by the year and not affect its thought because it is not called upon for definite action. But throw your subject into a campaign and it becomes a challenge.
John Jay Chapman

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Grover Cleveland

The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. Henry

The American people have now spoken, but it’s going to take a little while to determine what they’ve said. 
Bill Clinton

We’d all like to vote for the best man, but he’s never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy

The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.
John F. Kennedy

There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.
Lyndon B. Johnson

There is no city in the United States in which I can get a warmer welcome and fewer votes than Columbia, Ohio.
John F. Kennedy

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.
John F. Kennedy

I’m so insane, I voted for Eisenhower. “Oh yeah, well I’m so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!”
Ken Kesey

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.
Walter Lippmann

We just did a survey that showed… something like 65 percent of the [American] people couldn’t vote for the First Amendment if it was up for a vote today.
Peter Prichard

Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.
William L. Shirer

Our elections are free, it’s in the results where eventually we pay.
Bill Stern

It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.
Tom Stoppard

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
Henry David Thoreau

When a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.
Harry S. Truman

In times of stress and strain, people will vote.
Author Unknown

No matter whom you vote for, the Government always gets in.
Author Unknown

When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: “I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.”
Author Unknown

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal

It makes no difference whom you vote for – the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
Gore Vidal

Voters don’t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
George F. Will

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