| "A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach." »Niccolo Machiavelli |
| "We aim above the mark to hit the mark." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." »J. D. Salinger |
| "Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality." »Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno |
| "The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect." »Robert Louis Stephenson |
| "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." »Aristotle |
| "The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions." »Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| "After a person makes his mark in the world, a lot of people will come around with erasers." »Joe Moore |
| "There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts." »Mary Bertone |
| "Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man." »Norman Cousins |
| "No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever." »Francois Mauriac |
| "A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius |
| "A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know." »Mistinguett |
| "I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John." »Fulton John Sheen |
| "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Maybe intentions are the lies in the dark we tell ourselves when who we are falls short of the mark and when we destroy our neighbor we can say 'I never meant any harm.'" »Danielle Donoho |
| "Everyone has a different finger print.... Not to distinguish onself , but to give us an equal opportunity to leave a mark on the world." »Siddharth Astir |
| "One man may hit the mark, another blunder but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born." »Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
| "Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries." »Jose Ortega y Gasset |
| "On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away." »Tom Lehrer |
| "O many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken" »Sir Walter Scott |
| "The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." »Richard Bach |
| "He is not drowning His sheep when He washeth them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But by this He showeth that they are His own and the newshorn sheep do most visibly bear His name or mark, when it is almost worn out and scarce discernible on them that have the longest fleece." »Richard Baxter |
| "The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him." »Cicero |
| "Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence." »Democritus |
| "If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths." »Alexis Carrel |
| "Dr. Evil The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it." »Austin Powers International Man of Mystery |
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