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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

- Max Eastman

 

"If you don't Progress you Decay."

- Clint Eastwood

 

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

- Clint Eastwood

 

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.

- Abba Eban

 

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

- Abba Eban

 

What is Truth? Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I would keep the Truth and turn aside from God.

- Johannes Eckhard

 

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

- Mary Baker Eddy

 

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

- Sir Anthony Eden

 

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas Alva Edison

 

I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.

- Thomas Alva Edison

 

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

- Thomas Alva Edison

 

What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

- Thomas Alva Edison

 

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

- Thomas Alva Edison

 

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

- Thomas Alva Edison

 

When Solomon said that there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking an automobile.

- Bob Edwards

 

Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.

- Tryon Edwards

 

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

- Tryon Edwards

 

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

- Albert Einstein

 

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

Most lies succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.

- Paul Ekman

 

Love makes the world go 'round, and so does a bump on the head.

- Bill Ekstrand

 

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

- George Eliot

 

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

- T.S. Eliot

 

The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

- T.S. Eliot

 

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.

- Charles W. Elliot

 

The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.

- Havelock Ellis

 

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

- Havelock Ellis

 

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.

- Havelock Ellis

 

To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

- Havelock Ellis

 

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

- Nathaniel Emmons

 

Bloom where you planted.

- Mary Englebreit

 

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

- English Proverb

 

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

- Epictetus

 

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

- Ludwig Erhard

 

"Happiness is a function of accepting what is;
Love is a function of communication;
Health is a function of participation;
Self expression is a function of responsibilty."

- Werner Erhard

 

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

- Susan Ertz

 

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

- M. C. Escher

 

To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

- Euripides

 

Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

- Euripides

 

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

- Bergen Evans

 

When a woman behaves like a man why doesn't she behave like a nice man?

- Edith Evans

 

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

- Douglas Everett

 

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence.
A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes.
A boss knows all, a leader asks questions.
A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.
A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.

- Russel H. Ewing

 

Truth hurts...not the searching after, the running from.

- John Eyberg