Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
- James Thurber - In Old Age
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Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
- James Fallows - In Anger
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When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder.
- James H. Boren - In Business
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Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.
- James Cramer - In Business
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- James A. Baldwin - In On Change
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In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
- John James Ingalls - In Equality
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- James Russell Lowell - In Government
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
- James Madison - In Government
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
- James Madison - In Government
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People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
- James A. Baldwin - In History
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
- Henry James - In History
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
- William James - In History
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Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States.
- James Knox Polk - In History
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Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
- James Knox Polk - In History
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They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
- James Stockdale - In History
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Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
- William James - In Humor
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I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
- James McNeill Whistler - In Intelligence
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie - In Life
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James - In Life
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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
- William James - In Life
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- William James - In Life
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
- James A. Baldwin - In Love
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Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
- James A. Baldwin - In Love
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Love is what you've been through with somebody.
- James Thurber - In Love
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A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
- James H. Boren - In Marriage
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Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson - In Marriage
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
- P. D. James - In Nature
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Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
- James Russell Lowell - In Nature
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When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
- James Whitcomb Riley - In Nature
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I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
- James A. Baldwin - In Patriotism
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In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
- James William Fulbright - In Politics
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Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.
- James Harvey Robinson - In Politics
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This is an era of violent peace.
- James D. Watkins - In Politics
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There are no more liberals They've all been mugged.
- James Q. Wilson - In Politics
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I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
- James H. Boren - In Science
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Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.
- James D. Watson - In Science
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
- William James - In Sports
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The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
- William James - In Success
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There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn't slow down with a new batch of features.
- James Coates - In Technology
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It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
- Clive James - In Technology
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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
- James M. Barrie - In Time
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"There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.
- James Morrow - In War
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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
- James Gibbons Huneker - In Words to the Wise
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James - In Words to the Wise
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