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Quotations by Author Index

Introduction to Quotations by Author



List of Authors

A. E. Housman
Aaron Copland
Abigail Adams
Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Phillips)
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Maslow
Adam R. Gwizdala
Adela Florence Nicolson
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Adrian Mitchell
Adrienne Rich
Aeschylus
Agatha Christie
Alain de Botton
Alan Moore
Alan Turing
Alan Watts
Albert Bandura
Albert Camus
Albert Einstein
Albert Ellis
Albert Schweitzer
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Alberto Giacometti
Aldo Leopold
Aldous Huxley
Alex Grey
Alexander Bain
Alexander Herzen
Alexander Pope
Alexander Smith
Alexandre Dumas
Alfred Adler
Alfred Edward Housman
Alfred Whitney Griswold
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alice Duer Miller
Alice Meynell
Alice Miller
Allen Ginsberg
Alvin Toffler
Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Amos Oz
Amy Lowell
Anais Nin
Anatole France
Anaxagoras
Andre Breton
Andre Derain
Andre Dubus
Andre Maurois
Andrei Platonov
Andrew Bernstein
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Cohen
Andrew Motion
Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Warhol
Angela Carter Angela Carter
Ann Eliza Bray
Ann Kelly
Ann Oakley
Anna Jameson
Anna Quindlen
Anne Frank
Anne Grant
Anne Newport Royall
Annie Besant
Annie Sullivan
Annie Wood Besant
Anonymous
Anthony Brandt
Anthony Hecht
Antiphanes
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Antonio Porchia
Archibald MacLeish
Archibald McLeish
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Arnold Bennett
Arthur Charles Clarke
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Koestler
Arthur Miller
Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Schlesinger
Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Symons
Attienne De Grellet
Audre Lorde
Audrey Hepburn
August Wilson
Auguste Rodin
Aulus Cornelius Celsus
Aung San Suu Kyi
Austin O'Malley
Avicenna
Ayn Rand
B. F. Skinner
Balthus
Barack Obama
Barbara Borowitz Garland
Barbara Colorose
Barbara de Angelis
Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Harrell Carson
Barbara Kruger
Baron d'Holbach
Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
Bartolomé de las Casas
Baruch Spinoza
Ben Jonson
Benedict Spinoza
Benjamin DeCasseres
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Hoff
Benjamin Jowett
Benjamin West
Benjamin Whichcote
Berthold Auerbach
Bertolt Brecht
Bertrand Russell
Bhagavad Gita
Bill Beattie
Bill Cosby
Bill Maher
Bill Vaughan
Bill Watterson
Bishop George Berkeley
Blaise Pascal
Bob Johnson
Bob Marley
Bradley Miller
Brand Blanshard
Brenda M Oldfield
Brendan Francis
Brian Aldiss
Brian Greene
Bruce Barton
Bruce Lee
Bryant H. McGill
Buddha
Butler D Shaffer
Byron Danelius
C. S. Lewis
Caecilius Statius
Camille Flammarion
Carl Gustav Jung
Carl Lotus Backer
Carl Rogers
Carl Sandberg
Carl Sandburg
Carol Ann Duffy
Carson McCullers
Cato the Elder
Cecil Day Lewis
Cesare Pavese
Chapman Cohen
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Churchill
Charles De Lint
Charles de Montesquieu
Charles de Secondat
Charles Dickens
Charles E. Kellogg
Charles Elliot Norton
Charles Fort
Charles Frohman
Charles Horton Cooley
Charles Ives
Charles Kellogg
Charles Mackay
Charles Peguy
Charles R. Swindoll
Charlie Parker
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Chauncey Wright
Chief Seattle
Chogyam Trungpa
Chris Ofili
Chris Seidman
Christian Morgenstern
Christian Nestell Bovee
Christopher Dawson
Christopher Morley
Christopher Paolini
Chuck Palahniuk
Cicero
Cindy Francis
Clarence Seward Darrow
Claude Adrien Helvetius
Claude McKay
Colette
Colin Wilson
Colleen Parro
Confucius
Corita Kent
Corliss Lamont
Cremin
Cyril Bailey
Cyril Connolly
Cyril Vernon Connolly
Czeslaw Milosz
D.H. Lawrence
Dale Carnegie
Dan Barker
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Dennett
Daniel Goleman
David Chalmers
David Guterson
David Hare
David Hockney
David Hume
David Riesman
David Viscott
Dean Inge
Deborah Tannen
Deepak Chopra
Democritus
Demosthenes
Denis Diderot
Denis Waitley
Derek Walcott
Derrick Jensen
Desiderius Erasmus
Diane Ackerman
Dick Francis
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Diogenes
Don Marquis
Don Quixote
Donald Henry Gudehus
Doris Lessing
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Dorothy Law Nolte
Dorothy Nevill
Douglas Noel Adams
Dr. Conway
Dr. David M. Burns
Dr. Haim Ginott
E.B. White
E.M. Forster
Eberhard Arnold
Eda LeShan
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Degas
Edith Hamilton
Edmond Rostand
Edmund Burke
Edmund D Cohen
Edmund Hillary
Edvard Munch
Edward Abbey
Edward de Bono
Edward Gibbon
Edward Hopper
Edward Teller
Edward Thorndike
Edward Walker
Edwin Markham
Egon Schiele
Elain Heffner
Elbert Hubbard
Eldridge Cleaver
Eleanor Farjeon
Elfriede Jelinek
Elias Canetti
Elihu Burritt
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Fishel
Elizabeth Stone
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ellen Gilcrist
Ellen Goodman
Elliot W. Eisner
Elmer G. Letterman
Emile Cioran
Emile Coue
Emile Durkheim
Emily Dickinson
Emma Goldman
Epictetus
Epicurus
Eric Hoffer
Eric Temple Bell
Erich Fromm
Erich Segal
Erik Erikson
Ernest Gaines
Ernest Renan
Ernst Fischer
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Ernst Mach
Ernst Toller
Etta Semple
Eugene Delacroix
Eugene Fitch Ware
Eugene Ionesco
Eugene S. Wilson
Eugene Wigner
Eugenio Montale
Euripedes
Eyvind Johnson
Ezra Pound
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Faraq Mousa
Felix Adler
Fernand Leger
Fr. Edward Flanagan
Fran Lebowitz
Frances Wright
Francis Bacon
Francis Thompson
Francisco de Goya
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Frank Deford
Frank Drake
Frank Herbert
Frank Leslie
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Stella
Frank Wedekind
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franz Grillparzer
Franz Kafka
Fred Rogers
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Hart
Frederick II
Frida Kahlo
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
G. Gaia
G. Stanley Hall
G.K. Chesterton
Gabriel Marcel
Gabriela Mistral
Ganesh Nana
Garson Kanin
Gaston Bachelard
Gautama Buddha
Gene Hackman
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Holder
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Henrik von Wright
Georg Simmel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
George A. Sheehan
George Berkeley
George Bernard Shaw
George Carlin
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
George Gilder
George Gordon Byron
George Gurdjieff
George H. Mead
George Herbert
George Jacob Holyoake
George Linnaeus Banks
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
George Pope Morris
George Santayana
George Washington Carver
Georges Braque
Georges Henri Rouault
Gerald Jampolsky
Gerald Massey
Gerald Scarfe
Germaine Greer
German proverb
Geroger Johnson
Gerry Spence
Gertrude Stein
Giambattista Vico
Gilbert Highet
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
Giordano Bruno
Gloria Vanderbilt
Gottfried Leibniz
Grayson Kirk
Greg Hill and Kerry Thornley
Gregory Dix
Gunther Grass
Gustave Courbet
Guy Debord
Gwen John
Gwendolyn Brooks
H. C. Agrippa von Nettesheim
H. L. Mencken
H. Narasimhaiah
H. R. Haldeman
H. Stanley Judd
Haim Ginott
Hal Borland
Han Suyin
Hannah Arendt
Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Hofmann
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Harmon Killebrew
Harper Lee
Harriet Martineau
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Harry Homes
Harry Stack Sullivan
Harvey Diamond
Havelock Ellis
Helen Dunmore
Helen Keller
Helen Rice
Hellen Gahagan Douglas
Hellen Keller
Helmut Schoeck
Henri Frederic Amiel
HENRI NOUWEN
Henri Poincare
Henrik Ibsen
Henry Adams
Henry Brooks Adams
Henry David Thoreau
Henry Drummond
Henry Flynt
Henry Havelock Ellis
Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Moore
Henry Stimson
Henry Thoreau
Henry Van Dyke
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Winkler
Heraclitus
Herb Brody
Herbert J Muller
Herbert Kaufman
Herbert Read
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Ward
Herman Hesse
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hesiod
Hilaire Belloc
Hippocrates
Hodding Carter
Hohn Keats
Homer
Honore' de Balzac
Horace
Horace Walpole
Hosea Ballou
Howard Hodgkin
Ignacio Estrada
Igor Stravinsky
Ilya Ehrenburg
Ilya Prigogine
Immanuel Kant
Ingrid Bengis
Irving Layton
Isaac Newton
Isaac Rosenberg
Isabel Allende
Isabel Eberhardt
Isadora Duncan
Isaiah Berlin
Ivan Illich
Ivo Andric
J. F. Kennedy
J. L. Austin
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Jack Handey
Jack Prelutsky
Jacob Bronowski
Jacob Brownoski
Jacques Ellul
Jacques Lacan
Jacques Lipchitz
Jacques Maritain
Jacques Monod
Jacques Yves Cousteau
James A C Brown
James A. Baldwin
James Allen
James Arthur Baldwin
James Baldwin
James D. Brydon
James Grainger
James Herriot
James Hillman
James Laughlin
James Merrill
James P. Hogan
James Russell Lowell
James Truslow Adams
James Whitcomb Riley
Jami Bernard
Jane Goodall
Jane Nelson
Janet Erskine Stuart
Jasper Johns
Jean Baudrillard
Jean de la Bruyere
Jean Dubuffet
Jean Guitton
Jean Henri Fabre
Jean Houston
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Jean Paul Richter
Jean Piaget
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jeff Koons
Jeremy Bentham
Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Myers
Jesse Jackson
Jessica Lange
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Jim Rohn
Jimi Hendrix
Jjohn Donne
Joan Baez
Joan Blades
Joan Didion
Joan Ganz Cooney
Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johannes Kepler
John Adams John Adams
John Adams
John Anthony Collins
John Archibald Wheeler
John B. Robinson
John Berger
John Betjeman
John Bradshaw
John Constable
John Dewey
John Donne
John Drinkwater
John Dryden
John Emerich Edward Dalberg (First Baron) Acton
John F. Kennedy
John Fischer
John Fiske
John Fletcher
John Forbes Nash
John Gardner
John Gray
John Henrik Clarke
John Holt
John Jay Chapman
John Keats
John LaFarge
John Locke
John Madge
John Masefield
John Milton
John Morley
John Polkinghorne
John Powell
John Ruskin
John Sheffield
John Stuart Mill
John Tyndall
John Updike
John Venn
Jonathan Swift
Jorge Luis Borges
JOSÉ BERGAMÍN
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Saramago
Joseph Addison
Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Farrell
Joseph Joubert
Joseph Lewis
Joseph Rotblat
Joshua Reynolds
Joy Adamson
Joyce Brothers
Joyce Kilmer
Joyce Maynard
Judith Wright
Jules Combarie
Julien Benda
June Jordan
Jurgen Habermas
Juvenal
Kahlil Gibran
Karen Finley
Karen Horney
Karl A. Menninger
Karl Heinrich Marx
Karl Jaspers
Karl Marx
Karl Popper
Karl Shapiro
Kathe Kollwitz
Ken Kesey
Ken Lancaster
Kenneth L. Pike
Kerry Thornley
Kin Hubbad
King Edward V111
Kurt Herbert Alder
L. Cuyler
L.B. Johnson
Lady Nancy Astor
Langston Hughes
Lao Tzu
Laozi
Lascelles Abercrombie
Laura Schlessinger
Lawana Blackwell
Lawrence Kubie
Lee Rosten
Leigh Hunt
Leo Buscaglia
Leo F. Buscaqlia
Leo Rosten
Leo Tolstoy
Leon Lessinger
Leonard Cohen
Leonardo Da Vinci
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Mumford
Lewis Thomas
Lily Tomlin
Lin Yutang
Lionel Hampton
Lois McMaster Bujold
Lope de Vega
Lord Byron
Louis Althusser
Louis Aragon
Louis I Kahn
Louis Pasteur
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Louise Bogan
Louise Erdrich
Lucille Ball
Lucille Clifton
Lucretius
Lucy Colman
Ludwig Feuerbach
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Russolo
Luke Ford
Lydia Maria Child
Lyndon Baines Johnson
M. F. K. Fisher
M.C. Richards
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Mahhatma Gandhi
Manly Hall
Marc Chagall
Marcel Proust
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Margaret Fuller
Margaret Knight
Margaret Mead
Maria Callas
Maria Montessori
Marian Wright Edelman
Marianne E. Neifert
Marie Curie
Marie de France
Marilyn Ferguson
Marilyn French
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn vos Savant
Marjane Satrapi
Marjorie Holmes
Mark Tobey
Mark Twain
Mark van Doren
Marla Jones
Marquis de Sade
Marshall McLuhan
Martin Buber
Martin Heidegger
Martin Luther King
Marva Collins
Mary MacCracken
Mary Oliver
Mary Pettibone Poole
Mary Shelly
Mason Cooley
Matthew Alper
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Kelly
Mattie Stepanek
Maureen Hawkins
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Sendak
Max Lerner
Max Stirner
Maximilian I
May Sarton
Maya Angelou
Meister Eckhart
Melanie Klein
Menander
Mencius
Michel de Mantaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Michell Cassou
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
Milan Kundera
Miriam Beard
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Moliere
MONTAIGNE
Morris Graves
Morris Raphael Cohen
Mortimer Adler
Mother Teresa
Mr. Spock
Muriel Rukeyser
Murray Gell-Mann
Nagarjuna
Nan Fairbrother
Nancy Astor
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Hill
Natalie Goldberg
Nathaniel Branden Nathaniel Branden
Nathaniel Branden
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Neal Barnard
Neil Postman
Neill MacRae
Nelson DeMille
Niccolo Machiavelli
Nicolas de Chamfort
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nikki Giovanni
Nikolai Gogol
Nikos Kazantzakis
Noam Chomsky
Norman Dorsen
Norman Podhoretz
Novalis
Octavio Paz
Ogden Nash
Oliver Goldsmith
Oliver Herford
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Omar Khayyam
Orison Swett Marden
Oscar Wilde
Otto Dix
Otto Kleppner
Ovid
P.D. James
Pablo Casals
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Picasso
Pamela Glenconner
Paracelsus
Pat Brown
Pat Williams
Paul Cezanne
Paul Dirac
Paul Engle
Paul Gauguin
Paul Klee
Paul McCartney
Paul Meyer
Paul Muldoon
Paul Ricoeur
Paul Valery
Paul Watzlawick
Pearl S. Buck
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Peter McWilliams
Peter Singer
Peter Weiss
Petrarch
Phaedrus
Philip Guston
Philip James Bailey
Philip K. Dick
Philip Larkin
Philip Massinger
Philip Zimbardo
Phoebe Cary
Phyllis Diller
Phyllis McGinley
Pierre Bayle
Pierre Bonnard
Pindar
Plato
Plutarch
Princess Diana
Publilius Syrus
Pythagoras
Quentin Crisp
R. D. Laing
Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Rabbinical saying
Rachel Carson
Rainer Maria Rilke
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Randall Jarrell
Raoul Vaneigem
Ray Bradbury
Ray Merritt
Razelle Frankl
Real Live Preacher.com
Rene Char
Rene Daumal
Rene Descartes
Rensis Likert
Richard Armour
Richard Bach
Richard Carlson
Richard Cevantis Carrier
Richard Dawkins
Richard Garriott
Richard L. Evans
Richard Le Gallienne
Richard P. Feynman
Richard Savage
Richard Sheridan
Richard Wagner
Rita Mae Brown
Robert Frost
Robert A. Heinlein
Robert B Morgan
Robert Bly
Robert Brault
Robert Bresson
Robert Browning
Robert Burns
Robert Delaunay
Robert Frost
Robert Fulghum
Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Hass
Robert Heinlein
Robert Hutchison
Robert J Sawyer
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Nozick
Robert Oxton Bolt
Robert Quillen
Robert Smithson
Robert Southey
Robin G. Collingwood
Robinson Jeffers
Rockwell Kent
Rod Serling
Roger Fouts
Roger Lewin
Rollo May
Ron Dart
Rosaleen Dickson
Rudolf Arnheim
Rudolf Steiner
Rudyard Kipling
Rumi
Ruth Hurmence Green
Ryunosuke Satoro
Saint Augustine
Saint Basil
Saint Benedict
Saint Framcis of Assisi
Saint Gregory
Saint Teresa
Salman Rushdie
Salvador Dali
Sam Keen
Sam Levenson
Sam Rayburn
Samuel Alexander
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Butler
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Lover
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Scottish proverb
Seamus Heaney
Sean O’Casey
Seneca
Shaunti Feldhahn
Shell Silverstein
Sherwood Anderson
Sidney Lanier
Sidonie Gruenberg
Siegfried Sassoon
Sigmund Freud
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Weil
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Julian Huxley
Sissela Bok
Sitting Bull
Socrates
Sol LeWitt
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Sonnett Branche
Sophocles
Soren Kierkegaard
Spanish Proverb
Spider Robinson
Spinoza
St Augustine
St Hilary of Poitiers
St. Jerome
Stanislav Grof
Stanislaw Lec
Stanley Milgram
Stephanie Marston
STEPHANIE MARTSON
Stephen Hawking
Stephen J Gould
Stephen Neill
Stephen Spender
Stephen Vincent Benet
Steve Allen
Steven Brookfield
stin O'Malley
Storm Jameson
Stuart Kauffman
Stuart Kaufmann
sunkissd248
Susan Brownell Anthony
Susan Griffin
Sybil Marshall
Sydney J. Harris
Sydney Nolan
Sylvia Plath
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Elliot
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tawaharlal Nehru
Terri Windling
The Dalai Lama
Theodor Adorno
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Gericault
Theodore Hesburgh
Theodore Isaac Rubin
Theodore Roethke
Theophile Gautier
Thich Nhat Hanh
Thom Gunn
Thoman Alva Edison
Thoman Jefferson
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Thomas Gray
Thomas Harris
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hood
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Macaulay
Thomas Mann
Thomas Merton
Thomas Moore
Thomas Paine
Thomas Parnell
Thomas Reid
Thomas Szasz
Tim Cahill
Tim O'Malley
Titus Livius
Tom Dribert
Tristan Tzara
Umberto Eco
Unknown
Ursula K. Le Guin
Valerie Solanas
Vernon Howard
Victor de la Prade
Victor Hugo
Victoria Wagner
Viktor E. Frankl
Vincent Van Gogh
Virgil
Virginia C. Andrews
Virginia Satir
Voltaire
W. H. Auden
W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maughan
Wallace H.Fuller
Wallace Stevens
Walter Anderson
Walter Bagehot
Walter Crane
Walter Lipman
Warren Farrell
Warren G. Bennis
Washington Irving
Wayne Dyer
Wendell Berry
Werner Heisenberg
Wilhelm Wundt
Will Rogers
Willem de Kooning
William Blake
William Butler Yeats
William C. Bryant
William Cave
William Collins
William Congreve
William Ellery Channing
William Feather
William G. Defoore
William Gibson
William Glasser
William Godwin
William Hazlitt
William James
William Osler
William Penn
William Shakespear
William Shakespeare
William Somerset Maugham
William Whewell
William Wordsworth
Winston Churchill
Wislawa Szymborska
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wright Morris
Xenophanes
Xun Zi
Yehudi Menuhin
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