| "Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century." »Mark Twain |
| "People are always asking couples whose marriage has endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman." »Erma Bombeck |
| "Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon." »John Berger |
| "The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man." »Henry Wallace |
| "The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century." »Dan Quayle |
| "What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing." »Andrew Schneider |
| "Faith he must make his stories shorter Or change his comrades once a quarter." »Jonathan Swift |
| "Instead of putting a quarter under a kid's pillow, how about a pinecone That way, he learns that 'wishing' isn't going to save our national forests." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone." »Sigmund Freud |
| "J. Jonah Jameson Hoffman, run down to the patent office and market the name Green Goblin. I want a quarter every time someone says it." »Spider-Man |
| "With reasonable men I will reason with humane men I will plea but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost." »William Lloyd Garrison |
| "In the 20th century, specialisation has become the counterfeit of brilliance." »Richard Gordon |
| "The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century." »Jerry Coleman |
| "Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century." »Alfred Edward Perlman |
| "The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century." »William Lyon Phelps |
| "Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago" »Bernice Fitz-Gibbon |
| "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." »Alvin Toffler |
| "I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself. My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
| "There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel." »Franklin P. Adams |
| "The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn." »Pope John Paul II |
| "Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer." »Kedar Joshi |
| "Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war." »Isaac Asimov |
| "Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother." »Ronald Reagan |
| "We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them." »Mark Twain |
| "No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before." »Colin Greenwood |
| "The finest gift you can give anyone is encoragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century." »Sidney Madwed |
| "We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself." »Jimmy Carter |
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