| "Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers." »Jimmy Breslin |
| "Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet." »Jeff Melvoin |
| "Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind." »Chinese Proverb |
| "Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility." »Louis |
| "Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales." »Byron J. Langenfeld |
| "Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together." »Petrarch |
| "Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past." »Sophocles |
| "Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.)" »German proverb |
| "Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." »Sophocles |
| "Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." »Henry David Thoreau |
| "Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it." »Ayn Rand |
| "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal." »Pamela Vaull Starr |
| "Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider." »Francis Bacon |
| "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out." »Samuel Johnson |
| "Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity." »Christopher Morley |
| "Readers are plentiful thinkers are rare." »Harriet Martineau |
| "Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue." »Jean Baptiste Rousseau |
| "Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought." »Sir Arthur Helps |
| "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." »Sir Richard Steele |
| "Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad." »George Bernard Shaw |
| "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." »Francis Bacon |
| "Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop." »Ralph Novak |
| "Reading transports me. I can go anywhere and never leave my chair. It lets me shake hands with new ideas." »Rolfe Neill |
| "Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you." »Harold Bloom |
| "Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." »Albert Einstein |
| "Ready money works great cures." »French Proverb |
| "Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief." »Publilius Syrus |
| "Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. Had he run unopposed he would have lost." »Mort Sahl |
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