Things That Can't (or Cannot) be Done (1130 now)

Disaffirmations


Standard General Sayings

1 You can't buy love.
2 You can't cheat fate.
3 You can't hurry love.
4 You can't cheat death.
5 You can't have it all.
6 You can't kid a kidder
7 You can't ration love.
8 You can't beat the law.
9 You can't win them all.
10 You can't fool a camera.
11 You can't go home again.
12 You can't be too careful.
13 Beggars can't be choosers.
14 Money can't buy happiness.
15 You can't change the past.
16 You can't fight city hall.
17 You can't have everything.
18 You can't please everyone.
19 You can't tickle yourself.
20 You can't fool an Irishman.
21 You can't push on a string.
22 You can't push with a rope.
23 you can't serve two masters
24 You can't take it with you.
25 You can't tame a wild rose.
26 You can't fly with one wing.
27 You can't have it both ways.
28 Sometimes you just can't win.
29 You can't argue with success.
30 You can't fall off the floor.
31 You can't fool mother nature.
32 Man can't live on bread alone.
33 You can't change human nature.
34 You can't cheat an honest man.
35 You can't escape your destiny.
36 You can't get there from here.
37 You can't have too much money.
38 You can't get away with murder.
39 You can't keep a good man down.
40 You can't make anyone love you.
41 You can't serve god and mammon.
42 A leopard can't change its spots.
43 A zebra can't change its stripes.
44 You can't be too rich or too thin.
45 You can't cheat the phone company.
46 You can't get blood from a turnip.
47 You can't lose what you never had.
48 You can't be in two places at once.
49 You can't get blood out of a stone.
50 You can't be everything to everyone.
51 You can't be late until you show up.
52 You can't judge a book by its cover.
53 You can't make bricks without straw.
54 You can't get something for nothing.
55 You can't beat a man at his own game.
56 You can't believe everything you hear.
57 You can't believe everything you read.
58 You can't get a quart into a pint pot.
59 You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
60 Fifty million frenchmen can't be wrong.
61 You can't see the forest for the trees.
62 You can't have your cake and eat it too.
63 You can't step into the same river twice.
64 You can't always get what you want (babe).
65 You can't fit a square peg in a round hole.
66 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
67 A house divided against itself cannot stand.
68 You can't have an ocean except at sea level.
69 You can't put an old head on young shoulders.
70 You can't sell anything sitting on your arse.
71 You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
72 You can't go forward looking in the rearview mirror.
73 You can't run with the hares and hunt with the hounds.
74 You can't direct the wind but you can adjust your sails.
75 You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step in it.
76 You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
77 You can't have a clear head when there is a sword hanging over it.
78 You can't propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
79 You can't drain the swamp when you're up to your ass in alligators.
80 You can't grease a pig so many times that he can't be greased one more time.
81 You can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy.
82 Learn from the mistakes of others, because you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.


Comic Sayings (Some Based Upon General Sayings)

83 You can't fix stupid.
84 You can't judge a book by its movie.
85 You can't scare me. I have children.
86 You can't teach an old dog new math.
87 You can't hear everything you believe.
88 You can't teach a new mouse old clicks.
89 You can't teach an old god new tricks!.
90 You can't teach an old mouse new clicks.
91 You can tune a piano but can't tuna fish.
92 You can't buy beer; you can only rent it.
93 You can't buy love...But you can rent it.
94 You can't have your Kate, and Edith, too.
95 You can't sedate all the things you hate.
96 You can't fire me - Slaves have to be sold.
97 You can't make dill bread without dill dough.
98 You can't use your friends and have them too.
99 You can't break eggs without making an omelet.
100 You can't be a professor. You are making sense.
101 You can't duck an uzi, but you can uzi a duck!.
102 Religion is for people who can't handle reality.
103 Statistics show that statistics can't be trusted.
104 We can't get a volunteer army unless we draft it.
105 You can't milk a cow with your hands in your pants.
106 You can't blame a worm for not wanting to go fishing.
107 Courage is something you just can't be afraid to have.
108 You can beat a dead horse, but you can't make him drink.
109 You can't break even. - - The Second Law of Thermodynamics.
110 You can't stay young, but you can remain immature forever!.
111 An artist without paints can't paint unless he has a canvas.
112 You can't win Ôem all. Hell, you can't even *fight* Ôem all.
113 You can lead a whore to Vassar, but you can't make her think.
114 You can't fire anyone from the post office... They fire back.
115 You can always tell a harvard man but you can't tell him much.
116 You can't act like a skunk without someone getting wind of it.
117 You can't break the laws of physics, but you can make them up.
118 Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it. - Unknown
119 You can't idiot - proof everything, idiots are too resourceful.
120 You can't assume something is possible just because it happens.
121 Women, you can't live with them and you can't live without them.
122 You can't walk in the daylight if you fly with the bats at night.
123 You can't appreciate being single until after you've been married.
124 You can't make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.
125 Collins's Law: If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
126 You can't argue with a woman when she's tired...Or when she's rested.
127 You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
128 You can't play sick & then expect your mom to let you go to the mall.
129 You can't be a figment of my imagination - I'd have done a better job.
130 You can't hear it, but the universe is laughing at you behind your back.
131 You can't make a baby in one month, even if you make nine women pregnant .
132 Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty. - Leo Rosten (1908 - )
133 A formalist is a man who can't understand a theory unless it is meaningless.
134 You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think. - Dorothy Parker.
135 You can't kiss a girl unexpectedly - - only sooner than she thought you would.
136 If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them - Yogi Berra.
137 Naeser's Law: You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it damnfoolproof.
138 There are only three kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't.
139 I got a garage door opener. It can't close. Just open. - Steven Wright (1955 - )
140 Money can't buy you happiness, but poverty can't buy you anything. - Timur Sahin
141 Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. - Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
142 You can't believe anyone but yourself - - and don't trust yourself too completely.
143 Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to that can't keep them.
144 You can't please everyone. But it is possible to make 'em all mad at the same time.
145 The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. - Margo Kaufman
146 Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. - Spike Milligan
147 You can lead a gift horse to water, but you can't look him in the mouth when he drinks.
148 When a woman behaves like a man, why can't she behave like a nice man? - Dame Edith Evans
149 There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
150 You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry (1885 - 1957)
151 A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself. - Henry Morgan
152 You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose.
153 Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell. - Robert Byrne
154 If studidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
155 Money can't buy you happiness but it can pay for the plastic surgery. - Joan Rivers (1935 - )
156 You can't get anything worthwhile done without raising a sweat. - - The First Law of Thermodynamics.
157 You can't win the game, and you are not allowed to stop playing. - - The Third Law of Thermodynamics.
158 Women! Ya can't live with 'em and ya can't get 'em to wear skimpy little Nazi outfits. - Emo Phillips
159 I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. - Woody Allen (1935 - )
160 In the force if Yoda's so strong, construct a sentence with words in the proper order then why can't he?
161 A "Frisbeterian" believes that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof, and you can't get it back down.
162 The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in the middle of the night and get a Slurpee. - Tellis Frank
163 We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
164 I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. - Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
165 Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?' - Rodney Dangerfield
166 You'd better beat it. You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff. - Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
167 I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65 I had cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked. - George Burns (1896 - 1996)
168 Strange how the older generations can't program a VCR if their life depended on it, but they managed to operate the climate contol system of their 1958 Ramblers, which consisted of six unmarked knobs, one labeled "AirFloMatic" in unreadable cursive script, and four levers underneath the dash, which you had to turn, then pull. - Dan Tasman


Media Quotes (From Movies, Songs, Books and Fictional Characters)

169 You can't buy me love.
170 The girl can't help it.
171 You can't stop the music.
172 You Can't Do That On Television.
173 You can't polish a turd - Beavis.
174 Make him an offer he can't refuse.
175 You can't handle the truth! - - Jessup
176 I can't believe I ate the whole thing.
177 You can't help lovin' that man of mine.
178 You can't hug a child with nuclear arms.
179 This can't be love (because I feel so well).
180 You can't take a shower in a parakeet cage .
181 You can't Help Lovin' Dat Man of Mine, "Showboat"
182 You can't simply say, "today I will be brilliant".
183 You can't be neutral on a moving train - Howard Zinn
184 I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave - Hal9000
185 You can't beat the price on Betazoid wedding dresses.
186 You can't keep it in. Gotta let it out. - Cat Stevens.
187 You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd - Roger Miller
188 A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. - Winnie the Pooh
189 You can't fight in here! This is the war room!! - Strangelove
190 You can't fool me - there ain't no sanity clause. - Chico Marx
191 You can present the material, but you can't make me care - Calvin
192 Women! Can't live with them...pass the beer nuts. - Norm (Cheers)
193 You can't keep a good burger down. - Bun and Run (Fernwood Tonight)
194 You can't pray a lie. - Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
195 What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it? - Doctor Who
196 You can't play your friends like marks, kid. - - Henry Gondorf, "The Sting"
197 No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. - Linus, Peanuts
198 Sir, this man's crazy, you can't let him out of the army. - Frank Burns, M*A*S*H
199 You can't touch pitch and not be mucked. - Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
200 You can't teach people to be lazy - either they have it, or they don't. - - Blondie
201 Why can't they invent something for us to marry instead of WOMEN? - Fred Flintstone
202 The only thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. - Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory
203 These days an income is something you can't live without - - or within. - Tom Wilson, "Ziggy" (comic)
204 You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much. - Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley,
205 What good is money if it can't inspire terror in your fellow man? - Matt Groening (1954 - ), The Simpsons
206 They can make you say anything - ANYTHING - but they can't make you believe it. - George Orwell (1903 - 1950), 1984
207 I cannot tell what the dickens his name is. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 3 scene 2
208 There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other. - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
209 Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2
210 We have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. - Trillian, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
211 I can't call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. - Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare Dead?"
212 That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man,If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 3 scene 1
213 You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. - Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
214 Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. - Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), The Unnamable (1959) page 418
215 But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy. - William Shakespeare -
216 I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray
217 And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) -
218 Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Algernon from The Importance of Being Earnest
219 One hundred thousand lemmings can't be wrong. Graffito, as given in The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations, 2nd ed. ...You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity. - Graham Green, *The Quiet American*
220 The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity. - Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Doctor Zhivago
221 There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi - Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vadar in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes! - Stuart Stevens, Northern Exposure, Jules et Joel, 1991


Famous Quotes (mostly from famous people)

222 You can't stop rock & roll
223 Art can't hurt you. - Fred Babb
224 Knowledge is wealth that can't be stolen.
225 A good thing can't be cruel. - Charles Dickens
226 You can't fool all of the people all of the time.
227 Weak people cannot be sincere. - Le Rochefoucauld
228 You can't legislate against rumor. - Johann Nestroy
229 Nothing you can't spell will ever work. - Will Rogers
230 An artist cannot do anything slovenly. - Jane Austen
231 Time heals what reason cannot. - Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
232 I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. - Joe Walsh
233 You can't teach a crab to walk straight - - Aristophanes
234 You can cut off a dog's tail, but you can't sew it back.
235 I can't be a rose in any man's lapel. - Margaret Trudeau
236 Believing where we cannot prove. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
237 Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. - Bible, Matthew vi. 24.
238 You can't kill time without injuring eternity - - Thoreau
239 You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. - Dorothy Parker
240 You can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular.
241 You can not gain peace by avoiding life. - Virginia Woolf
242 He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach. - Unknown
243 We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try. - Tom Clancy
244 You can't guard against the arbitrary. - - Borkowski's Law
245 You can't compile a wit out of two half - wits. - Joe Orton
246 Unjust dominion cannot be eternal. - Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
247 You can't organize clutter. - Marla Cilley, www.flylady.net
248 Water, taken in moderation, can't hurt anybody. - Mark Twain
249 You can't take teamwork up to the front office to negotiate.
250 You can't trust anybody with power. - Newt (Newton) Gingrich
251 I'd take a Bromo, but I can't stand the noise. - W.C. Fields
252 Even God cannot change the past. - Agathon (448 BC - 400 BC)
253 I cannot live without books. - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
254 Can't have everything, where would you put it? - Steven Wright
255 You can fake nice, but you can't fake smart. - Mark T. Shirey
256 A person who trusts no one can't be trusted. - Jerome Blattner
257 The body says what words cannot. - Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
258 You can evade life, but you can not evade Death. - T. S. Elliot
259 I can't take a well - tanned person seriously. - Cleveland Amory
260 Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad. - Leo Rosten
261 You can't create experience. You must undergo it. - Albert Camus
262 You can't die for god if you can't kill for god. - - David Koresh
263 Human kind cannot bear much reality. - T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
264 You can't do wrong without suffering wrong. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
265 You can't hit what you can't see. - John Francis Daley (Baseball)
266 Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? - Phyllis Diller
267 Never speaks a word, can't be wrong. - Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969)
268 Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream. - Oscar Wilde
269 War is cruel and you cannot refine it. - William Tecumseh Sherman
270 If ya ain't got it in ya, ya can't blow it out. - Louis Armstrong
271 You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do. - Liz Smith
272 You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. Henry Ford
273 You can't make money by betting on all the horses. - Mark T. Shirey
274 I love people, it's mankind I can't stand. - Charles Schulz, Peanuts
275 Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. - Steve Wozniak
276 You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in - - Arlo Guthrie
277 I can't mate in captivity. - Gloria Steinem on why she never married
278 It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. - Unknown
279 When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. - Quintilian
280 A girl can't analyze marriage, and a woman dare not. - Lady Troubridge
281 You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh. - - Jay Leno (1950)
282 Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid. - Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
283 Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas. - Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
284 What you cannot enforce, do not command. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
285 You cannot keep a man down without staying down with him. - Steve Biko
286 You can't expect to win unless you know why you lose. - Benjamin Lipson
287 You can't simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. - Albert Einstein
288 Never argue with a fool. Listeners can't tell which is which. - Unknown
289 You can not perceive beauty but with a serene mind. -Henry David Thoreau
290 How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. - Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
291 Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan. - Author Unknown
292 You cannot compile a wit out of two half - wits. - Joe Orton (1933 - 1967)
293 Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. - Fran Lebowitz
294 Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself. - Mary H. Waldrip
295 You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old. - George Burns
296 You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. - Rita Mae Brown
297 Why can't I be different and original, like everybody else? - Viv Stanshall
298 You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing. ..Baseball
299 A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. - Kenneth Tynan
300 I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. - Peter De Vries
301 I love mankind; it's people I can't stand. - Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
302 Creativity is a drug I cannot live without. - Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
303 Human beings cannot stand too much reality. - Thomas S. Eliot, Four Quartets
304 If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one. - John Galsworthy
305 You can't fix a broken heart by pretending it's not broken. - Penn and Teller
306 You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. - Bonnie Prudden
307 Anything that is designed to do more than one thing can't do any of them well
308 One cannot review a bad book without showing off. - W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
309 Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
310 I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up. - James Gould Cozzens
311 So I can't live either without you or with you. - Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD), Amores
312 He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom. - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
313 You cannot fix a broken heart by pretending it's not broken. - Penn and Teller
314 A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it. - Thomas Beecham
315 You can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it. - Albert Einstein
316 I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying. - Michael Jordan (1963 - )
317 I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. - Mae West (1892 - 1980)
318 There's no fool like an old fool - - - you can't beat experience. - Jacob Braude
319 One voice can enter ten ears, but ten voices cannot enter one ear. - Leone Levi
320 The only unnatural sexual act is that which you cannot perform. - Alfred Kinsey
321 You can't win at everything, but you can laugh at everything. - Robert Killinger
322 You can't dig a different hole by digging the same one deeper. - - Edward de Bono
323 You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up. - - George Carlin
324 A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
325 Even though quality cannot be defined, you know what quality is. - Robert Pirsig
326 It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change. - Confucius Analects
327 Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others. - Unknown
328 You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
329 You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. - - Booker T. Washington
330 I you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down. - Dave Weinbaum
331 A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind. - Leon Tec, M.D.
332 Man cannot aspire if he looks down; if he rises, he must look up. - Samuel Smiles
333 That cannot be safe which is not honourable. - Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
334 There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. - Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
335 Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana
336 You must do the things you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
337 You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London
338 No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart. - Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
339 When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves. - Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
340 You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -Hermann Weyl
341 Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. - Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
342 A man may well bring a horse to the water but he can't make him drink. - John Heywood
343 You can't depend on the man who made the mess to clean it up. - - Richard Nixon, 1952
344 You can't stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself. - Deepak Chopra
345 You can't imagine the extra work I had when I was a god. - Hirohito, Emporer of Japan
346 A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
347 The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot
348 You can't escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. - Abraham Lincoln
349 You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself. - Deepak Chopra
350 As long as you don't try new things, you can't learn new things. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
351 You can't truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. - M. Scott Peck
352 The French are just useless. They can't organize a piss - up in a brewery. - Elton John
353 He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader. - Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
354 If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much. - Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
355 Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light. - Author Unknown
356 Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. - Clarence Thomas (1948 - )
357 Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it. - Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
358 You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. - M. Scott Peck
359 You can't drown your troubles, not the real ones, because if they are real, they can swim
360 I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets. - Graham Chapman
361 No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year. - Sean O'Casey (1880 - 1964)
362 We cannot defend liberty abroad by deserting it at home. - Edward R. Murrow (1908 - 1965)
363 We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. - Dolly Parton or Bertha Calloway
364 Any man who hates dogs and loves whiskey can't be all bad. - W.C. Fields, after Leo Rosten
365 You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle (1908 - 2002)
366 Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. - Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
367 Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. - Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
368 Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. - Henrik Tikkanen
369 We can't swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt. - William Ernest Hocking
370 The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. - Merrick Furst
371 Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them. - Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)
372 When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
373 A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill
374 Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer. - The Lion
375 A loud voice cannot compete with a clear voice, even if it's a whisper. - Barry Neil Kaufman
376 Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them. - Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
377 The mind cannot long act the role of the heart. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
378 There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. - Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
379 There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can! - Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
380 Ye are the light of the world. A city set upon a hill cannot be hid. - Bible, Matthew v. 14.
381 We can't really love anybody with whom we never laugh. - Agnes Repplier, Americans and Others
382 You can't say civilization don't advance... In every war they kill you a new way. Will Rogers
383 Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
384 You cannot step twice into the same river. - Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), In Plato, Cratylus
385 You can't slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
386 You have to have at least one pervert per show or you can't survive out there. - Phil Donahue
387 Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. - Jeff Valdez
388 Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it. - Jess Lair
389 You cannot conceive the many without the one. - Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Parmenides
390 I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time. - Oprah Winfrey
391 You can't teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. - Galileo Galilei
392 You can build a throne out of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for very long. - - Boris Yeltsin
393 Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot perceive the truth. - Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
394 What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
395 A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. - Burt Bacharach
396 You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. - Clarence Day
397 I can't imagine anything worse than being required to have fun. - Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005
398 Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. - Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Epistles
399 You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
400 The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. - Leo Rosten (1908 - )
401 When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have. - Kathleen A. Sutton
402 He who has never failed somewhere. . . that man can not be great. -Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
403 I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. -Pablo Picasso
404 If a man who cannot count finds a four - leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness? - Stanislaw Lec
405 He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep. - Selma Lagerloef
406 The doorway to success cannot be opened with a key, but rather a combination - Daniel Fitzpatrick
407 What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. - Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
408 Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. - Lazarus Long
409 People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. - E W Howe
410 That what began best, can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst. - Robert Browning
411 I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off! - Matt Groening (1954 - ), The Simpsons
412 i can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. - Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
413 If we can't find something pleasant, we will at least find something new. - Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
414 Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
415 If a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. - Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993), A Clockwork Orange
416 Whatever else can be said about sex, it cannot be called a dignified performance. - Helen Lawrenson
417 You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. - Unknown
418 I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me. - Joseph Conrad
419 I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
420 Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it. - Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
421 When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man. - Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993), A Clockwork Orange
422 The only one who can tell you "you can't" is you. And you don't have to listen. - Nike advertisement
423 You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested. - Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God"
424 You can't do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. - R Waldo Emerson
425 I can't be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight. - J. D. Salinger (1919 - )
426 A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. - Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
427 He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist. - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
428 I dont want to be cross, Love cannot be forced. - Edith Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
429 Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. - Muhammad Ali (1942 - ), "More Than a Hero"
430 A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood. - Mark Ardis
431 One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. - Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Emma
432 You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. - Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
433 Without a high pain threshold, you can't be a successful President. - William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton
434 That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say "No" in any of them. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
435 Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. - Langston Hughes
436 We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks. - Vernon Howard
437 We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them. - Jeremy Collier
438 What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
439 Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last. - Greg Evans, Luann (comic), September 27, 2003
440 Magic is the sole science not accepted by scientists, because they can't understand it. - Harry Houdini
441 Good design can't fix broken business models. - Jeffrey Veen, Designing the Friendly Skies, 06 - 21 - 06
442 Compulsion cannot produce virtue; it can only produce the outward semblance of virtue. - Dinesh DÕSouza
443 Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. - Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989)
444 Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. - Arthur Schoenhauer
445 You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself. - H. Norman Schwarzkopf
446 When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. - Dolly Parton
447 Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
448 Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
449 The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
450 We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. - John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
451 What ever lives obeys . . . he who cannot obey himself is commanded. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
452 You can buy a pretty good dog with a lot of money, but you can't buy the wag of its tail. - Josh Billings
453 Any man who hates dogs and children can't be all bad. - popularly, but falsely, attributed to W.C. Fields
454 Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. - Bill Gates (1955 - )
455 We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts. - Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )
456 If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. - John F Kennedy
457 It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family. - Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
458 You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination. - Stephen King (1947 - )
459 You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
460 Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond - studded wheelchair. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
461 Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. - John Erskine (1879 - 1951)
462 We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt. - William Ernest Hocking (1873 - 1966)
463 The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match. - Todd Ruthman
464 Social AimsSometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do. - Lin Yutang
465 At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived. - Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
466 You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. - Malcolm X
467 Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. - Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), Juno and the Peacock
468 Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others. - Ellen DeGeneres
469 War cannot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the other's advantage. - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
470 I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you. - Ann Richards
471 You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. - Flip Wilson (1933 - 1998)
472 Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still. -Patricia Russell - McCloud
473 The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind - - but one cannot eternally live in a cradle. - Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
474 He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. - George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
475 People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. - Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Dog in the Manger
476 We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared. - Edward Dahlberg
477 You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. - Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642)
478 Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base. - Frederick Wilcox
479 France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper. - Billy Wilder
480 Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. - Mary Tyler Moore
481 He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return. - Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), The Ethics
482 Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. - Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
483 No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar. - Donald Foster
484 Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth! - Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
485 A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes. - Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
486 One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
487 The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them. - Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
488 There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. - Bill Clinton (1946 - )
489 Humor, you can't exist without it. You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Otherwise you suffer. - Kirk Douglas
490 Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no! - Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
491 The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
492 Woe to those who can't see the power of irrational logic. - Maritza Campos, College Roomies From Hell!!! Webcomic
493 A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. - Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
494 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
495 Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. - James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
496 We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. - Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973), December 13, 1963
497 You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. - Carrie Fisher
498 You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. - Art Buchwald
499 No, I'm not going to explain it. If you can't figure it out, you didn't want to know anyway... : - ) - Larry Wall
500 An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. - Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
501 He whom you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster! - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spake Zarathustra
502 We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. - Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950), Americans and Others, 1912
503 You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. - John Wooden
504 Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at? - Unknown, Dan Fielding in "Night Court"
505 Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government. - Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
506 He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. - Sir William Drummond
507 The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led. - Spencer W. Kimball
508 There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue. - Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
509 We cannot be sure that we have something to live for unless we are ready to die for it. - Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
510 You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. - James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
511 You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. - William Henry Hudson (1841 - 1922), Afoot in England, 1909
512 You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. - Evan Esar
513 You can't just up and convert a whaling ship into a deep - sea trawler overnight. - J. Jacques, Questionable Content
514 I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. - John Cage (1912 - 1992)
515 It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister. - Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), (Dear Abby)
516 We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. - Marie de Rabutin - Chantal
517 Music expresses that which cannot remain silent and that which cannot be put into words. - Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
518 Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. - Frank Zappa
519 I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. - Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
520 If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right. - Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), (attributed)
521 A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out. -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
522 There isÉnothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people. - H. R. Schaffer, O Magazine, May 2003
523 A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it. - Unknown
524 I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. - Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
525 And he whom you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
526 Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. - Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
527 There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. - John Locke (1632 - 1704)
528 We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
529 You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey. - Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870), Lee to students at washington college
530 A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him. - H. Mathews
531 Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts. - Mary O'Hara
532 Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens. - Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
533 My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
534 Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. - David Lloyd George
535 France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. - Billy Wilder (1906 - 2002)
536 You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once. - Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), quoted by Susan Litwin in 'TV Guide'
537 We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd - instinct. - Author Unknown
538 You can't be really first - rate at your work if your work is all you are. - Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life
539 A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. - William Penn (1644 - 1718)
540 A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
541 The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen - Jean Baptiste Lacoraire
542 The woman who cannot tell a lie in defense of her husband is unworthy of the name of wife. - Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
543 You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone. - Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog
544 Just because it's only 'stuff' doesn't mean I can't appreciate it while I have it. - Starline X. Hodge, Candi, 12 - 30 - 05
545 Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - - if you don't play, you can't win. - Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
546 Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
547 Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. - Jean De La Bruyere (1645 - 1696)
548 We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
549 How do you like that guy? Can't run six balls and he's President of the United States. - Pool hustler Johnny Irish on Nixon
550 It's easy to identify people who can't count to ten. They're in front of you in the supermarket express lane. - M. Grundler
551 When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. - Marie de Sevigne, O Magazine, December 2003
552 You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that. - Jay Leno (1950 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
553 It's all fun and games 'til someone loses an eye; Then it's just fun you can't see. - James Hetfield, Lead Singer, Metallica
554 Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out. - Unknown
555 Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. - Dr. David M. Burns
556 Not only does God play dice with the Universe - he sometimes casts them where they can't be seen. - Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
557 You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984), quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982
558 I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit. - Susan Glasee, The Visioning, 1911
559 Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other. - Rene' Yasenek
560 Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
561 We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. - Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
562 You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. - John Wooden (1910 - )
563 BACKBITE, v.t. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you. - Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
564 I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. - Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
565 Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success. - Michael Flatley, (Lord of the Dance) quoted by Eric Celeste
566 You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. - Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
567 There used to be certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl. Now, you can say them, but you can't say 'girl.' - Tom Lehrer
568 A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose. - Hortense Calisher
569 I don't want people to kiss my ass, I just want to get to a point where they can't kick it. - Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), Lucky Man
570 There's nothing so wrong that it can't be easily fixed or easily ignored. I just let things roll off. - Clay Aiken, Rolling Stone
571 Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. - Adolph Monod
572 There are, in the affairs of men and nations, inexorable tides from which they cannot remain aloof. - Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988)
573 Those who will not reason are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - George Gordon Noel Byron
574 We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
575 I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it. - Queen Juliana (1909 - 2004), of the Netherlands
576 Credit is a system whereby a person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. - Charles Dickens
577 You know it's funny when it rains it pours They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor. - Tupac Shakur, Keep Ya Head Up (song)
578 The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation. - Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616)
579 There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
580 There's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple. - Chuck Sigars
581 Happiness cannot be found - - it must be created anew everyday. - Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002)
582 Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish. - Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Electra
583 It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
584 The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. - Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
585 You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. - Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
586 I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare. - Tori Amos, (American Singer)
587 You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it. - Malcolm X
588 I really can't come to your party Mrs. Parker, I can't bear fools." That's strange; your mother could. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
589 It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. - Jane Hamilton, The Book of Ruth
590 Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. - Richard M. DeVos
591 A great frustration in life is discovering that sometimes those who say something can't be done turn out to be right. - Donald Simanek
592 Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest
593 Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. - Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
594 There is no nonsense so errant that it can't be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. - Bertrand Russell
595 Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. - Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
596 You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. - Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
597 Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Dr. Martin Luther King
598 He that commends me to mine own content. Commends me to the thing I cannot get. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), A Comedy of Errors
599 I cannot give the formula for success, but I can give you the formula of failure - which is try to please everybody. - Herbert B. Swope
600 In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speech, September 22, 1936
601 I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. - Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
602 If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying? - Shantideva
603 When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
604 It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
605 You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show. - Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
606 God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. - C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
607 History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again. - Maya Angelou (1928 - )
608 I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair. - Gore Vidal (1925 - )
609 Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. - Nelson Mandela (1918 - )
610 You cannot be really first - rate at your work if your work is all you are. - Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
611 Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained. - Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
612 In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it. - Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
613 Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
614 The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn. - Alvin Toffler
615 My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives. - Rita Rudner
616 Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their children were last night. - Author Unknown
617 The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self - serving wealth. - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
618 Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country. - Elvin Stackman
619 All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust. - Dale Carnegie
620 If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done. - Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
621 Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. - William F. Buckley, Jr.
622 A book may be compared to your neighbor; if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early. - Rupert Brooke
623 Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world. - Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
624 Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. - Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
625 You can't leave footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time? - Bob Maowad
626 For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. - Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
627 I cannot expect to perform the task with equal ability and success. - Martin Van Buren (1782 - 1862), taking over from Andrew Jackson in 1837
628 I have learned that you cannot make someone love you. All you can do is be someone who can be loved, the rest is up to them. - Lauren Edwards
629 Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream. - Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
630 The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else. - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
631 You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. - W. Somerset Maugham
632 Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once. - H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
633 Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
634 If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. - Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
635 You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe. - Carl Sagan
636 You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. - Stephen King, "Hearts in Atlantis"
637 I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high. - Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912), declining to make a speech in 1908
638 It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth. - George Burns (1896 - 1996)
639 An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in this world. - Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - )
640 Don't SAY things. What you ARE stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
641 The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. - Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
642 They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles. - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
643 You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
644 Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things. - Frank Zappa
645 I can name the newscaster on The Simpsons, but I can't name my own congressman. And that's what makes America great. - Mark Hoppus, (Blink - 182)
646 We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me. - Jack Handey
647 In the depths of my heart I can't help being convniced that my dear fellow men, with few exceptions, are worthless. - Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
648 Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall - Oliver Herford
649 If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. - Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
650 Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it. - Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
651 Well, the fact is that one cannot retrace one's steps, and the steps one has taken greatly influence the future. - Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
652 It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. - G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Scandal of Father Brown (1935)
653 The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter - he's got to just know. - Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
654 The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
655 There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place. - Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
656 Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. - Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
657 One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. - Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
658 You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new. - Steve Jobs
659 Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money? - Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
660 Friendship with oneself is all - important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
661 I can't pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. - Sir Winston Churchill
662 What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong. - Norman Douglas
663 The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning. - Gail Godwin
664 The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past. - Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), 1835 - 1902
665 Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created. - Anonymous
666 Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith. - Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, author Alexis de Tocqueville
667 Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
668 You can't make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. - Max Beerbohm
669 Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
670 A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
671 Man has six organs to serve him and he is master only of three. He cannot control his eye, ear or nose, but he can his mouth, hand and foot. - Leone Levi
672 Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. - W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
673 Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
674 I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. - Kurt Vonnegut
675 Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. - Gore Vidal (1925 - )
676 When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Autobiography
677 You can't run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? - Robert Louis Stevenson
678 My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? - Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
679 You can't really expect a 22 - year - old girl to react the same way as a man 24 years older than her. - Rachel Hunter (1968 - ), on ex - husband Rod Stewart
680 Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest. - John Winthrop
681 I can't see the point in the theatre. All that sex and violence. I get enough of that at home. Apart from the sex, of course. - Baldrick - Sense and Senility
682 Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. - Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
683 But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates. - Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), in Symposium
684 I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store - bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff. - Matt Groening (1954 - ), The Simpsons
685 I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
686 Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace. - Rita Mae Brown, Bingo
687 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. - Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)
688 There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else. - Cyrus H. Curtis (1850 - 1933)
689 There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure. - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
690 You can't measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them. - Orison Swett Marden
691 In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue. - Cornelius Tacitus (55 AD - 117 AD)
692 We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
693 You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a womanÕs name and claim to love her. - Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
694 My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
695 Son, if you can't take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and then vote against 'em, you don't deserve to be here. - Texas democrat Sam Rayburn
696 God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr
697 We buy our way out of jail but we can't buy freedom, We buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need them, Things we buy to cover up what's inside. - Kanye West
698 Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less. - Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870)
699 I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
700 I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. - Patricia Moyes
701 I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. - Lord Brabazon
702 He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven. - Lord Herbert
703 I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! - Louise Bogan
704 I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
705 The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, womenÉ merely adored. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), An Ideal Husband
706 When you have reached a point at which you cannot see more, You must remember that there may be a point beyond this at which you can see everything. - Mehmet Karagoz
707 If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim". - Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973)
708 You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her. - Winston Churchill
709 Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. - Bernard Baruch
710 Successful people in this world are those who get up and look for circumstances they want. If they can't find them, they make them. - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
711 Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. - Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471), Imitation of Christ
712 I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
713 You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. - Author Unknown
714 A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along. - E.B. White
715 I can't give you a sure - fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. - Herbert Bayard Swope (1882 - 1958)
716 If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say: Let the damned thing go down the drain! - Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
717 He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
718 Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. - Harriet Lerner
719 It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
720 The Godless would deny and destroy human rights .... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned. - U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson
721 Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
722 We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. - John Dewey (1859 - 1952)
723 I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts. - Charles Rosin, Northern Exposure, Aurora Borealis, 1990
724 Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed. - A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936) -
725 You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
726 Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
727 Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of. - Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
728 The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. - Abigail van Buren (1918 - )
729 Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. - Denis Waitley
730 I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. - Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"
731 If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do. - Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
732 The best is the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world, and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire and sword. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
733 You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them. - Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
734 Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in. - Katherine Mansfield
735 I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine - tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. - Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965)
736 I can't seem to bring myself to say, "Well, I guess I'll be toddling along." It isn't that I can't toddle. It's that I can't guess I'll toddle. - Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
737 Maybe you and I can't do great things. We may not change the world in one day, but we still can change some things today, in our small way. - Michael Jackson, In Our Small Way
738 Music - - the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge, which comprehends mankind, but which mankind cannot comprehend. - Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
739 You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. -Abraham Lincoln, (attributed)
740 Do not condemn the man that cannot think or act as fast as you can, because there was a time when you could not do things as well as you can today. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
741 The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial... he cannot go along with currents and trends. - Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
742 We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation. - Florence Scovel Shinn
743 It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss. - Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
744 New ideas pass through three periods: - It can't be done. - It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. - I knew it was a good idea all along! - Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
745 Marquis de SadeI take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it. - Lord Brabazon
746 One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered. - Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), in "Saving Milly" by Morton Kondrake
747 When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't go on, hold on - - for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
748 LOVE'S GIFT cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. - Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), Whisperings. The Inspirational Writings of Rabindranath Tagore on Nature, Love and Life.
749 Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. - Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, 1825
750 Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well. - Warren Buffett (1930 - )
751 As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self - destroying. Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
752 Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room. - Ernest Dimnet
753 Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. - Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
754 The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and , if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
755 Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self - conscious, and anything self - conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. - Ray Bradbury
756 Self - love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa. - Dr. Karl A. Menninger
757 I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life. - Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
758 For the worst sign of all - - as I must have it for you - - is that you can't help me. That's when a woman pities. - Henry James (1843 - 1916), "The Ambassadors", Book Sixth, Chapter 2
759 Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy - Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
760 I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air. - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)
761 The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. - John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
762 You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good. - Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Gran Prix
763 Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. -Albert Einstein
764 There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey. - John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
765 I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "Is Shakespeare Dead?"
766 If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon. - Alfred A. Montapert
767 Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it. - Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
768 Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat. - Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), 1931, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James Loewen (1995)
769 We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. - Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877
770 We cannot view the world through another being's eyes. Love is knowing, without a doubt, another's perception of the world and being content with having no evidence. - Jeffrey Edwin Ross
771 Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. - George Gurdjieff
772 We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs. - Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
773 I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it. - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
774 The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know. - Loren Eiseley
775 You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Rosevelt
776 I believe that uncertainty is really my spirit's way of whispering, "I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off - balance here." - Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, June 2003
777 A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. - Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune (First Law of Mentat)
778 One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another. - Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
779 The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other. - Swami Brahnmananda
780 You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit. - Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Third Olynthiac
781 Mach - S, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self - propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed. - Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08 - 26 - 05
782 Meetings are an addictive, highly self - indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. - Alain van der Heide
783 It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you. - Tony Benn
784 It's said that if you can't say something good about a dead person, don't say it. Well, I consider him dead. - Thurgood Marshall (1908 - 1993), (Former Chief Justice), on President George Bush
785 One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask. - Yvette Gilbert, (1865 - 1944)
786 We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot. - Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
787 It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. - Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855), Jane Eyre, 1847
788 I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!' - Ellen DeGeneres, on Oprah Winfrey 1995
789 I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander - by can judge of. - Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
790 I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. - Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), letter to Committee on Un - American Activities of the House of Representatives, May 19, 1952
791 You can't be a Real Country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. - - Frank Zappa
792 Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. - Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
793 I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. - Edmund Everett Hale
794 Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. - Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD), Lives
795 At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that can't be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years. - Arthur C. Clarke
796 You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait. - Ellen Metcalf
797 Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcone cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world... W. B. Yeats, the second coming
798 As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - - the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
799 Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. - Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"
800 Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed. - The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Eknath Easwaran
801 I donÕt think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot be earned. It can only be given. - Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 20, 2003
802 It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. - Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
803 As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us. - A. J. Toynbee
804 Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.' - Ann Landers (1918 - 2002)
805 It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see. - James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
806 The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ``Women's Rights.'' It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself. - Queen Victoria
807 Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence. - Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
808 It takes truth to live with a swiftly changing world. Nothing less than truth can survive. You cannot survive with anything less than truth. - L. Ron Hubbard, The Ability Congress - Washington D.C 1957
809 Chicken Soup: An ancient miracle drug containing equal parts of aureomycin, cocaine, interferon, and TLC. The only ailment chicken soup can't cure is neurotic dependence on one's mother. - Arthur Naiman
810 Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever. - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Notes on the State of Virginia - denouncing the evils of slavery
811 Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
812 Only when the last tree has been cut down. Only when the last river has been poisoned. Only when the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. - Cree Indian Prophecy -
813 In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm. - Isaac Rosenfeld
814 True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
815 War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 - 1527)
816 I've had people say to me, 'Can't you be more feminine?' I would go, 'Feminine? Why do I have to be feminine?' Does that mean I have to put a little apron on and bake some cookies or something? - Etta James
817 Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense. - Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002)
818 The United States can't be so fixed on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans... - Bill Clinton (1946 - ), March 1, 1993 press conference in Piscataway, NJ, from Boston Globe, 3/2/93, page 3
819 There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
820 He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. - Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"
821 Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can't see a thought, you can't measure, weigh, nor taste it - but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy. - Robert A. Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy
822 I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in which you live... More I cannot wish you except perhaps love to make all the rest worthwhile. - Robert A. Ward
823 Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof. - Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
824 But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. - Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey
825 Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil. - Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
826 In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law. - Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
827 Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. - John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
828 I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair. - Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
829 Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it. - Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Chenoeh: "Coversations with Leto II"
830 By their essential nature triumphs can't be given. They must be taken, and the worse the odds and the fiercer the resistance, the greater the honor. Victories can't be gifts. - Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
831 The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page. - Neil Postman
832 But I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lord Henry - A Picture of Dorian Gray
833 I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich. - Jim Carrey, Oprah Winfrey Show, 1997
834 Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that's already broken! You can't get in trouble for wrecking the unsalvageable! - R. Stevens, Diesel Sweeties, 11 - 06 - 06
835 He that cannot decidedly say, "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin. He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs. - J. Hawes
836 There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey. - John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), (attributed)
837 You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another. - Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004
838 If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief. - Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899), ÒWhat Must We Do To Be Saved?Ó (1880)
839 Replying to the tributes paid to him at a testimonial dinner, Herbert Bayard Swope said; "I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure. Try to please everybody." - Author Unknown
840 We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
841 Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain. - Bartholomew
842 Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? - Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
843 Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.' - Margaret Cho
844 Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it. - Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
845 I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. - Ursula K. LeGuin
846 One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. - Maya Angelou (1928 - )
847 He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC)
848 I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Radio speech, 1939
849 By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece. - G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
850 An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it. - Joel Spolsky, Sink or Swim, SXSW 2006
851 The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble. - Ellen DeGeneres
852 I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen. - Martin Luther (1483 - 1546), in front of his inquisitors at the Diet of Worms.
853 But why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live, as if everybody else is inadequate? Why can't they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity? - Hanif Kureishi, in his book, Intimacy
854 He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. - Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
855 Overwhelming nuclear strength cannot stop a guerrilla war. - John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), From the speech President Kennedy was to deliver at the Dallas Trade Mart, 22 Nov 1963; he was assassinated on his way to the Trade Mart
856 We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. - Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
857 The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents. - Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
858 Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it. - Margaret Cho
859 That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?" - Terry Pratchett
860 You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful. - Ellen DeGeneres, US Magazine, January 1995
861 That little man in black over there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him. - Sojourner Truth (1797 - 1883)
862 Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom. - W. M. L. Jay
863 The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair. - Douglas Adams
864 Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. - Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
865 The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906)
866 To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed. - Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
867 We have to ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share again. Their incomes went up in the 1980s and their taxes went down. We can't ask the middle class to pay more; their incomes went down and their taxes went up. - Bill Clinton
868 God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. - Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971), in a sermon in 1943
869 Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid. - William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830), on the Pleasure of Hating
870 When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Hugh White (1773 - 1840)
871 Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. - Shunryu Suzuki
872 Sometimes you feel other people's pain worse than your own. We're armored against our own troubles. We can't afford to give in to despair. Then you see someone else struggling, and it breaks your... heart. - Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
873 It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. - Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
874 The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters. - Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
875 You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return. - Robert Collier
876 BLANK - VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters - - the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind. - Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
877 In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman. - David M. Ogilvy
878 HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not. -Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
879 I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
880 In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all... Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You cannot now realize that you will ever feel better... And yet this is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. - Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
881 Lots of people lose themselves in love, it's no shame, they write songs about it. The hitch is you can't stay lost, sooner or later you have to get back to yourself. If you can't then love becomes your master and you're just it's dog. - Marti Noxon
882 They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris. - Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
883 Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. - Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2003
884 Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds). - Hazrat Ali Ibn - e - Abi Talib, Nahj - ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
885 We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. - Ricther
886 It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them... At least he who reaches will get a good stretch, a good view, and perhaps even a low - hanging apple for his efforts. - R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
887 Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
888 I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort. - Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
889 The seven deadly sins ... Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven milestones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the milestones are lifted. - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
890 Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling, Words that weary and perplex and pander and conceal, Wake the sounds that cannot lie, for all their sweet beguiling; The language one need fathom not, but only hear and feel. - George Du Maurier (1834 - 1896) -
891 Free men cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars. - John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), The Moon is Down
892 There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. - Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
893 It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work. - William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
894 I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence. - Arthur S. Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
895 There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice. - Jay Leno (1950 - )
896 Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this. - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
897 The reality is that there is nothing so vulgar left in human experience for which some educator from some institution cannot be found to justify it. In the name of literary license, anything passes off as permissible. - Ravi Zacharias, Enslaved Through Pleasure
898 All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. - IBM maintenance manual, 1925
899 In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. - S. I. Hayakawa
900 It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. - Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
901 Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people. - Lillian Eichler Watson
902 Water is fluid, soft and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong. - Lao - Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
903 Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
904 Jazz is the refuge of the untalented. When you go to a jazz club, you may notice that no one is enjoying themselves half as much as the people on stage. Jazz is like the theatre, it's what you do when you can't get a real gig. - Tony Wilson, (president, Factory Records)
905 Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. - John Adams (1735 - 1826), 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770
906 There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and family. But he can't make a living for them and his government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people. - Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
907 Happiness is like manna; it is to be gathered in grains, and enjoyed every day. It will not keep; it cannot be accumulated; nor have we got to go out of ourselves or into remote places to gather it, since it has rained down from a Heaven, at our very door. - Tyron Edwards
908 There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. - Jack London (1876 - 1916), The Call of the Wild
909 Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty - one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age. - George Burns (1896 - 1996)
910 It seems to me that man has engaged in a blind and fearful struggle out of a past he can't remember, into a future he can't forsee nor understand. And man has met and defeated every obstacle, every enemy except one. He cannot win over himself. - John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968)
911 Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends. - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
912 We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white. - Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
913 Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning. - W. B. Yeats
914 Nature is not cruel, pitiless, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - - indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. - Richard Dawkins (1941 - )
915 Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it. - Admiral Hyman Rickover
916 We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the steward of life's continutity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to to it, but here we are. - Stephen Jay Gould (1941 - 2002), Harvard University
917 Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), First Inaugural Address
918 At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine. - Joel Patrick Warneke
919 Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. - Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, July 12, 1711
920 Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self - esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self - importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all. - Thomas Szasz
921 Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
922 I paint paintings because I can't get the experience in any other way but there are many more experiences that are equally satisfying to me and equally inept at answering all my questions, but hover in exactitude in describing themselves and defying me to define their logic. - Julian Schnabel
923 Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them, too - - even when you're in the dark. Even when you're falling. - Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
924 You can't hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. - Marie Curie
925 The ruler cannot mobilize the army out of personal anger. The general cannot engage in battle because of personal frustration. Anger can revert to happiness, annoyance can revert to joy, but a vanquished state cannot be revived, the dead cannot be brought back to life. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War
926 I cannot believe that the purpose of life is (merely) to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all. - Leo Rosten (1908 - )
927 Emilio, I am getting rusty and old, I cannot follow the highbrow theory developed by Oppenheimer's pupils any more. I went to their seminar and was depressed by my inability to understand them. Only the last sentence cheered me up. It was: "And this is Fermi's theory of beta decay. - Enrico Fermi
928 It doesn't matter that Cathy was what I have called a monster. Perhaps we can't understand Cathy, but on the other hand we are capable of many things in all directions, of great virtues and great sins. And who in his mind has not probed the black water? - John Steinbeck (1902 - 1968), East of Eden
929 Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil. - Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
930 Dying is not romantic, and death is not a game which will soon be over... Death is not anything...death is not...It's the absence of presence, nothing more...the endless time of never coming back...a gap you can't see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound... - Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
931 It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one. - George Harrison (1943 - 2001)
932 Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being. - Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662), Pensees(II,72)
933 Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side - effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself. - Viktor Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning
934 As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity. - James Allen, "As A Man Thinketh"
935 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 (106 BC - 43 BC)
936 No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems. - Anne Rice (1941 - ), "Blood and Gold"
937 You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful. - Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
938 Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us. - Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
939 We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
940 If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war - - to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense! - Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds
941 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
942 As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found - - in himself. - Erich Frohm
943 Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage. - John Oliver Hobbes
944 A philosopher once said 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results'. Well, they do not. You set up the circumstances, with the same conditions every time, and you cannot predict behind which hole you will see the electron. - Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
945 Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me? - Rothschild
946 People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Mrs. Warren's Profession" (1893) act II
947 When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all. - Tim Freeman
948 People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self. - Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
949 Marriage isn't for life any more - - life is too long. Marriage is for love. Love gladly accepts responsibility. Love wants commitment. Marriage should be celebrated as the optimistic and glorious thing that it is. We can't call it a failure if it doesn't last forever. - Jeanette Winterson, The Guardian, Tuesday, April 23, 2002
950 Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain. - Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
951 To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers. No servant or disciple can dress the wound. You dress it yourself or continue bleeding for all to see. - Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
952 I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward. - William Dean Howells
953 Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck. - Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Slippery Slope
954 Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world famous physicist, can't really believe that hanging a horseshoe above your door brings you luck?. Of course not, Bohr replied, "but I have been reliably informed that it will bring me luck whether I believe in it or not." - Neils Bohr
955 One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life. - Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher.com weblog, September 9, 2003
956 . . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them... - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
957 Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large - how large? It is no use s aying that radium is scarce - how scarce? You can not evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves. -Alfred North Whitehead
958 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
959 I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on; it's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars, and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it. And you can't really control that. - Salma Hayek
960 Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. - Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
961 It's amazing how pervasive food is. Every second commercial is for food. Every second TV episode takes place around a meal. In the city, you can't go ten feet without seeing or smelling a restaurant. There are 20 foot high hamburgers up on billboards. I am acutely aware of food, and its omnipresence is astounding. - Adam Scott, The Monkey Chow Diaries, June 2006
962 An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. - Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
963 Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language. - Samuel Johnson
964 Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence. - Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 1922 Circuit House speech (court) charged with "attempting to disaffect towrds his majestys government"
965 To be healthy, wealthy, happy and successful in any and all areas of your life you need to be aware that you need to think healthy, wealthy, happy and successful thoughts twenty four hours a day and cancel all negative, destructive, fearful and unhappy thoughts. These two types of thought cannot coexist if you want to share in the abundance that surrounds us all. - Sidney Madwed
966 I hold before you my hand with each finger standing erect and alone, and as long as they are held thus, not one of the tasks that the hand may preform can be accomplished. I cannot lift. I cannot grasp. I cannot hold. I cannot even make an intelligible sign until my fingers organize and work together. In this we should also learn a lesson. - George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)
967 Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal and execution is carried out automatically and without pity. - Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
968 You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate. - Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
969 The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. - Sir Hugh Walpole
970 But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - - we can not consecrate - - we can not hallow - - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. -Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
971 Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure. - A. Lou Vickery
972 Innately, children seem to have little true realistic anxiety. They will run along the brink of water, climb on the window sill, play with sharp objects and with fire, in short, do everything that is bound to damage them and to worry those in charge of them, that is wholly the result of education; for they cannot be allowed to make the instructive experiences themselves. - Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
973 Portrait of a losing side, proof positive that you can't outpunch machinery. Proof also of something else: that no matter what the future brings, man's capacity to rise to the occasion will remain unaltered. His potential for tenacity and optimism continues, as always, to outfight and outlive any and all changes made by his society. - Rod Serling (1924 - 1975), closing to Twilight Zone episode "Steel"
974 Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination. - Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
975 If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality. - Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
976 Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win over certain people to something, it is only necessary to give it a gloss of love of humanity, nobility, gentleness, self - sacrifice - and there is nothing you cannot get them to swallow. To their souls, these are the icing, the tidbit; other kinds of souls have others. - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
977 In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism....And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeon cannot extract....all of these fatigues experienced in your youth, you pay for when you grow old. Because one has suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which does not seem exactly fair. - Elzear Blaze, La Vie Militaire
978 Time is but the stream I go a - fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. - Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

 


Foreign Proverbs

979 You can't have all you wish for. - (Latin)
980 You can't marry a hen and a fox. - (French)
981 You can't get oil out of a wall. - (French)
982 You can't buy heaven with money. - (Maltese)
983 You can't catch a fox with a bait. - (Latin)
984 You can't damage a wrecked whip. - (Italian)
985 You can't tickle a hungry person. - (Massai)
986 You can't clap with one hand only. - (Chinese)
987 You can't make a hawk of a buzzard. - (French)
988 You can't have the bacon and the pig. - (French)
989 You can't roast corn with two eyes. - (Nigerian)
990 You can't be in town and in the fields. - (French)
991 You can't have meat without the bone. - (Sicilian)
992 You can't pull hard with a broken rope. - (Danish)
993 He who refuses to obey cannot command. - (Kenyan )
994 You can't hide the sun with two fingers. - (Afghan)
995 You can't make a sieve of an ass's tail. - (German)
996 You can't ride two horses with one ass. - (Russian)
997 You can't be at the oven and in the mill. - (French)
998 You can't hook trout? Try digging clams. - (Chinese)
999 Eat blackbirds if you can't have thrushes. - (French)
1000 You can't chew with somebody else's teeth. - (Yiddish)
1001 You can't avoid what lies in ambush for you. - (Ovambo)
1002 You can't pick up two melons with one hand. - (Persian)
1003 You can't compare the living with the dead. - (Nigerian)
1004 You can't draw white cloth from a dying vat. - (Chinese)
1005 You can't drink and whistle at the same time. - (Danish)
1006 You can't take a cow from a man who has none. - (Danish)
1007 You can't write in the chimney with charcoal. - (Russian)
1008 You can't shear the sheep closer than the skin. - (Danish)
1009 You can't teach an old monkey how to make faces. - (French)
1010 You can't make a good archbishop out of a rogue. - (Danish)
1011 You can't make a good shaft of a pig's tail. - (Portuguese)
1012 You can't teach an old dog how to gnaw a bone. - (Darkovan)
1013 You can't bind a cloud even with copper chains. - (Darkovan)
1014 You can't make an ass drink if he is not thirsty. - (French)
1015 You can't build a house for last year's summer. - (Ethiopian)
1016 You can't eat nuts without breaking some shells. - (Darkovan)
1017 You can't love Thetis and Galatea at the same time. - (Latin)
1018 You can't teach your grandmother how to suck eggs - (English)
1019 You can't break through a wall with your forehead. - (Russian)
1020 You can't sail as you would, but as the wind blows. - (Danish)
1021 You can't straighten the world with your shoulder. - (Romanian)
1022 You can't pull a fish out of the pond without work. - (Russian)
1023 You can't reason with a hungry belly; it has no ears. - (Greek)
1024 You can't swallow hot milk, nor can you throw it away. - (Goan)
1025 You can't take hawks without climbing some cliffs. - (Darkovan)
1026 You can't turn a buzzard / a dolt into a sparrowhawk. - (French)
1027 You can't make a good hunting - horn of a pig's tail. - (Danish)
1028 You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money. - (Jewish)
1029 A wise man cares not for that which he cannot have. - (Italian )
1030 You can't have more bed - bugs than a blanket - full. - (Spanish)
1031 You can't fill your belly painting pictures of bread. - (Chinese)
1032 You can't have the butter and the money from the butter. - (French)
1033 You can't have peace longer than your neighbour chooses. - (Danish)
1034 An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold. - (Chinese )
1035 You can't catch a cub without going into the tiger's den. - (Chinese)
1036 You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane to be as sweet. - (Chinese)
1037 You can't measure the whole world with your own yardstick. - (Yiddish)
1038 He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good. - (Jewish)
1039 He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them. - (Chinese )
1040 Discretion is knowing how to hide that which we cannot remedy. - (Spanish )
1041 For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches. - (Turkish )
1042 You can't get at the precious sago without first breaking the bark. - (Malay)
1043 When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. - (African )
1044 A man's worst enemies can't wish on him what he can think up himself. - (Yiddish)
1045 A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it. - (Russian)
1046 You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. - (Native American Navajo)
1047 Knowledge is like a garden; if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. - (African )
1048 The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. - (Chinese )
1049 The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. - (Chinese)
1050 You can't forge a hammer from featherpod fluff, nor spin spidersilk from precious copper. - (Darkovan)
1051 You can't prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair. - (Chinese)
1052 Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured. - (Indian )
1053 There are three things which if one does not know, one cannot live long in the world: what is too much for one, what is too little for one, and what is just right for one. - (Swahili )


Unknown Classification

(Let me know if you can tell me how to classify these)

1054 You can't escape forever.
1055 You can't argue with a sick mind!
1056 You can't go wrong with basic black.
1057 You can't make horn of a pig's tail.
1058 You can't be careful on a skateboard.
1059 You can't dry dishes with a wet towel.
1060 You can't miss what you can't measure.
1061 You can't put new wine in old bottles.
1062 You can't see the city for the houses.
1063 If you can accept losing, you can't win.
1064 You can't put your arms around a memory.
1065 You can't spell GEEK without a double E
1066 You can't take a shirt from a naked man.
1067 You can't trust dogs to watch your food.
1068 You can't underestimate the power of fear.
1069 You can't have a science without measurement.
1070 You can't shift an old tree without it dying.
1071 A razor can't be sharpened on a piece of velvet.
1072 You can be happy or justified. You can't be both.
1073 You can't erase a dream, you can only wake me up.
1074 You can't fare well, but you must cry roast meat.
1075 You can't drive a windmill with a pair of bellows.
1076 You can't make people honest by Act of Parliament.
1077 You can't be Batman to all the Robins of the world.
1078 If you don't buy a ticket, you can't win the raffle.
1079 You can't acquire experience by making experiments. .
1080 You can't argue with someone who *knows* you're wrong.
1081 You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.
1082 You can't be too careful in the choice of your enemies.
1083 You can't make too many mistakes with your mouth shut!.
1084 You can get another job; you can't get another integrity.
1085 You can't make a perfect society out of imperfect people.
1086 You can't mend a wristwatch while falling from an airplane.
1087 You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way.
1088 You can't carve your way to success without cutting remarks.
1089 You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving.
1090 You can't achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
1091 You can't tell which way the train went by looking at the track.
1092 You can't be afraid of stepping on toes if you want to go dancing.
1093 You can't weld cake - dough to cast iron, nor a girl to an old man.
1094 Why can't you make another word using all the letters in "anagram"?
1095 You can't reason a man out of that which he has not been reasoned into.
1096 You can't dream too much; you can't do enough to make your dreams come true.
1097 You can't tell how deep a well is by measuring the length of the pump handle.
1098 You can't take something off the internet. It's like taking pee out of a pool.
1099 You can't discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
1100 Show me a man with both feet firmly on the ground, and I will show you a man who can't remove his pants.

Non-General Sayings (Not Proverbial) "Can't" expressions in English

1101 I can't go on.
1102 You can't let go.
1103 I can't complain.
1104 You can't hack it.
1105 I can't help myself.
1106 You can't be serious.
1107 You can't stand still.
1108 You can't take a joke.
1109 You can't sleep a wink.
1110 It can't hold a candle.
1111 You can't stand the gaff.
1112 You can't win for losing.
1113 You can't hear oneself think.
1114 You can't make this stuff up.
1115 I can't believe my ears/eyes.
1116 I can't get a word in edgewise.
1117 I can't make head or tail of it.
1118 You can't beat it with a stick!.
1119 You can't see beyond one's nose.
1120 You can't tell shit from Shinola.
1121 F**k em if they can't take a joke
1122 You can't blame a guy for trying.
1123 I am so mad I can't see straight.
1124 You can't have one without the other.
1125 You can't carry a tune in a wheelbarrow.
1126 You can dish it out but you can't take it.
1127 He can't punch his way out of a paper bag.
1128 You can't hold a candle to something/someone.
1129 I can't remember having a more memorable time.
1130 An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

 

 

mailto:billtomlinson@mac.com Site Meter