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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

- Pacal

 

As you listen to your spirit, peace follows. So follow your spirit. Build your foundation in your heart.

- Sara Paddison

 

Vision enables you to glimpse into the future, to sense its hope and power, because you yourself are the means for that future's creation.

- Sara Paddison

 

If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you want to know your future, look into your present action.

- Padmisambha

 

Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.

- Satchel Paige

 

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

- Thomas Paine

 

Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

- Thomas Paine

 

The most formidable weapons against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.

- Thomas Paine

 

My mind is my own church.

- Thomas Paine

 

Age after age has passed away, for no other purpose than to behold their wretchedness.

- Thomas Paine

 

Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

- Thomas Paine

 

...any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be a true system.

- Thomas Paine

 

Truth is what you create it to be.

- Harry Palmer

 

Reality consists of the experiences we believe are real. What is real may or may not be the same for everyone.

- Harry Palmer

 

Don't let what you're being get in the way of what you might become.

- Harry Palmer

 

Wise men make proverbs; fools repeat them.

- Samuel Palmer

 

There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

- Dorothy Parker

 

Whenever anyone says, "theoretically", they really mean, "not really".

- Dave Parnas

 

We never live, but we hope to live; and, so we are always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable we should never be so.

- Blaise Pascal

 

The heart has its reasons that reason cannot know.

- Blaise Pascal

 

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

- Blaise Pascal

 

It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.

- Blaise Pascal

 

Happy is he who bears a god within.

- Louis Pasteur

 

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then giving Fido only two of them.

- Phil Pastoret

 

Think enough and you won't know anything.

- Kenneth Patchen

 

Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."

- Coventry Patmore

 

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

- Gen. George Patton

 

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

- General George S Patton, Jr.

 

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

- Kurtz Paul

 

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

- Linus Pauling

 

Science is the search for truth. It is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the right solution, the just solution of international problems, not the effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible.

- Linus Pauling

 

Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

- Cesare Pavese

 

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

 

Misquotations are the only quotations that arenever misquoted.

- Hesketh Pearson

 

I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.

- Sir Robert Peel

 

He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

- Charles Peguy

 

The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors.

- Charles Peguy

 

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.

- Leonard Peikoff

 

Don't wait for love whatever you do, people can't make your dreams come true.

- Shakl Pemberton

 

True silence is the rest of the mind. It is to the spirit what sleep is to the body - nourishment and refreshment.

- William Penn

 

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

- William Penn

 

Idealism is like innocence. The more you live, the more you lose. However, you can do a lot more with idealism than you can innocence. Innocence is a state of mind; idealism is a state of being.

- Mike Perry

 

No matter how much you talk to your plant, if you don't water it, it's going to die.

- Mike Perry

 

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to the garage makes you a car.

- Laurence J. Peter

 

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

- Laurence J. Peter

 

Education is the method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

- Laurence J. Peter

 

In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present.

- Tony Petito

 

All the world's a cage.

- Jeanne Phillips

 

Queer thing, but we always think every other man's job is easier than our own. And the better he does it, the easier it looks.

- Eden Phillpotts

 

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

- Pablo Picasso

 

Even the greatest of men cannot rejoice in a friend's triumph without envy.

- Dr. Frank Pittman

 

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die out, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

- Max Planck

 

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

- Plato

 

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

- Plato

 

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

- Plato

 

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

- Plato

 

Astronomy compels the soul to look upward and leads us from this world to another.

- Plato

 

A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake, at the moment.

- Willis Player

 

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.

- Pliny the Elder

 

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

- Plutarch

 

Root of honesty and virtue lie in the felicity of lighting on good education.

- Plutarch

 

Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

- Plutarch

 

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.

- Plutarch

 

If the vision is there, the mean will follow.

- Faith Popcorn

 

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.

-From "Alone", by Edgar Allen Poe

 

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

- Edgar Allan Poe

 

Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

- Henri Poincare

 

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.

- Enrique Jardiel Poncela

 

For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.

- Winnie the Pooh

 

The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.

- Porterfield

 

One murder makes a villain, millions a hero.

- Beilby Portus

 

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

- Colin Powell

 

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

- David Pratt

 

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

- Sir William Preece

 

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

- Leontyne Price

 

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

- V. S. Pritchett

 

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

- Marcel Proust

 

The only way to be absolutely safe is never to tray anything for the first time.

- Magnus Pyke