Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
Steven Wright

I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.
Groucho Marx

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
Bill Gates

His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
Mae West

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.
Rodney Dangerfield

Character is much easier kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
Steve Jobs

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
Marcus Aurelius

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthur

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.
Henny Youngman

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
George Bernard Shaw

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.
Jean-Paul Sartre

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
Albert Camus

Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
Lyndon B. Johnson

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
Lewis Carroll