All Quotes

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
‐‐ Moliere

A learned man has always riches in himself.
‐‐ Phaedrus

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.
‐‐ John Gould

A lecture is much more of a dialogue than many of you probably realize.
‐‐ George Wald

A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.
‐‐ Paddy Considine

A Left that does nothing achieves nothing.
‐‐ Emmanuel Macron

A left turn in the fate of Russia is as necessary as it is inevitable.
‐‐ Mikhail Khodorkovsky

A left-wing idiot is as dangerous as a right-wing idiot.
‐‐ Milos Zeman

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.
‐‐ Miles Davis

A legend - now I am like a unicorn.
‐‐ Jean Giraud

A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.
‐‐ John Bercow

A Leica camera is a camera we can keep both eyes open. You can look for the free eye that doesn't look to viewfinder and in all directions. It's like backwards - and sometimes also backwards, and you can look for the viewfinder and see your picture.
‐‐ Horst Faas

A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
‐‐ Ivy Compton-Burnett

A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.
‐‐ James Stephens

A lesser but still fundamental rule of racing is that you properly enter the event. Anyone who doesn't but still insists on running interferes with the paying customers.
‐‐ Joe Henderson

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

A letter does not blush.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

A 'lewk' is like, 'I'm wearing a lewk today,' it's something that everybody will notice. It's like you're out of the pages of a magazine, that's a lewk.
‐‐ Brad Goreski

A liar is always lavish of oaths.
‐‐ Pierre Corneille

A liar should have a good memory.
‐‐ Quintilian

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
‐‐ Aesop

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.
‐‐ Robert M. Hutchins

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
‐‐ A. Bartlett Giamatti

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
‐‐ Leonard Bernstein

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
‐‐ Robert Frost

A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.
‐‐ Gregory Nunn

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
‐‐ Carter Glass

A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.
‐‐ Frank Dane

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
‐‐ Theodore White

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
‐‐ Henry A. Wallace

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
‐‐ Max Eastman

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
‐‐ David Mamet

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
‐‐ Hans Haacke

A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
‐‐ Jim Brown

A liberated Internet will continue to be a reality in your life (and in the lives of your children) if rules like Net Neutrality are in place.
‐‐ Justine Bateman

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
‐‐ L. Neil Smith

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
‐‐ Harry Browne

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
‐‐ Bainbridge Colby

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
‐‐ Cornelia Funke

A library implies an act of faith.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
‐‐ Norman Cousins

A library is thought in cold storage.
‐‐ Herbert Samuel

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
‐‐ Norman Cousins

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
‐‐ Robertson Davies