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"A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig." »Robert A. Heinlein
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"In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A." »Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter"
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"Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief." »Schopenhauer
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"The attempt and not the deed Confounds us." »William Shakespeare
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"The attempt and not the deed
Confounds us." »William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 2 scene 2
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""What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"" »Paul. F. Meekin
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"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail" »Dr. Robert Schuller
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"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything" »Vincent Van Gogh
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"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" »Dr. Robert Schuller
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"Make voyages - attempt them - there's nothing else..." »Tennessee Williams
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"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt." »Joseph Heller
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"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into." »Jonathan Swift
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"It is destruction to the weak man to attempt to imitate the powerful." »Phaedrus
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"Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day." »Vernon Howard
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"It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye." »George Pratt Shultz
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"Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual." »Octavio Paz
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"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." »Thomas Alva Edison
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"All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich." »Lavater
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"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." »William Shakespeare
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"Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life- long attempt to acquire it." »Albert Einstein
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"How can we learn to know ourselves? By reflection, never, but by our actions. attempt to do your duty, and you will immediately find what is in you." »Goethe
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"Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality." »Theodor Reik
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"Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check." »M. C. Escher
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"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." »Shakespeare
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"Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt." »William Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", Act 1 scene 4
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"The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while." »Albert Einstein
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"Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings." »George Tooker
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"This became a credo of mine...attempt the impossible in order to improve your work." »Bette Davis
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"Our doubts are traitors,And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt." »William Shakespeare
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