Thomas Paine
Character is much easier kept than recovered.

Dorothy Parket
If all the girls attending the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.

Ellen Parr
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Blaise Pascal
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

Louis Pasteur
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.

General George S. Patton
The Object Of War Is Not To Die For Your Country But To Make The Other Bastard Die For His.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Pope John Paul II
Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.

Linus Pauling
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

Neil Peart
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.

M. Scott Peck
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived

Jack Penn
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

J.C. Penney
I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.

Alfred Edward Perlman
After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.

H. Ross Perot
If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes.

Eagles don't flock - you have to find them one at a time.

Laurence J. Peter
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Thomas Peters
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Tom Petty
So it started out for god knows where, I guess I'll know when I get there.

Pablo Picasso
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Art is a lie that tells us the truth.

Plato
Necessity is the mother of invention.

Life must be lived as play.

Gary Player
The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Edgar Allen Poe
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those how dream only by night.

Polish proverb
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.

Antonio Porchia
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.

Truth has very few friends and those few are suicides.

Infancy is a what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevety, extreme brevety.

Man lives measuring and he is measured by nothing. Not even by himself.

Sometimes I believe that evil is everything, and that good is only a beatiful desire for evil.

Colin Powell
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Steve Prefontaine
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts

Mathew Prior
They talk most who have the least to say.

Herbert Prochnow
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Platon
Astronomi tvinger sjelen til å se oppover og fører oss fra denne verden til en annen

Demokrati overgår til despotisme

Om vi forventer at kvinner skal gjøre det samme som menn, må vi lære dem de samme tingene

La ingen uvitende om geometri slippe inn i mitt hus

Ærlighet er oftest mindre økonomisk lønnsomt en uærlighet

Vår virkelige skaper er nødvendigheten, som er mor til alle oppdagelser

Å bli gammel gir ro og fred. Når lidenskapen har sluppet taket, ikke bare unsluppet en herre men fra mange

Skjønnheten ved stil, harmoni, grasiøsitet og god rytme avhenger av enkelhet

Sannheten er starten på alle gode ting, både i himmelen og på jorden; og den som vil være lykkelig og velsignet bør være den første som omfavner sannheten, for da kan han stoles på

Ingen lov eller forordning er mektigere enn forståelse

Straffen for å nekte å delta i det politiske liv, er at man ender opp med å bli regjert av folk underlegene en selv

Kjærlighet, er gleden ved det gode, undringen ved det vise og forbløffelsen ved gudene

Undring er en følelse for filosofer, og filosofi begyner i undring

Det værste av alle svik, er å svike seg selv

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things

Of all victories the first and greatest is for a man to conquer himself