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Ken Olson

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” Ken Olson

Friedrich Nietzsche

“One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Ancient Proverb

“Whom the gods wish to destroy they send 40 years of success.” Ancient Proverb

Matt Groening

“The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.” Matt Groening

Laozi

“Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.” Laozi

Willie Sutton

“Because that's where the money is.” Willie Sutton

Josh S. Weston

“We will never try to develop a strategy that wins on price. There is nothing unique about pricing.” Josh S. Weston

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Henrik Ibsen

“Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'” Henrik Ibsen

Will Rogers

“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.” Will Rogers

Andy Warhol

“I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.” Andy Warhol

H. Jackson Brown

“In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.” H. Jackson Brown

Alec Guinness

“Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?” Alec Guinness

Jameson Frank

“Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.” Jameson Frank

Ross Johnson

“Realize that ultimate success comes from opportunistic, bold move which by definition, cannot be planned.” Ross Johnson

Ken S. Keyes

“To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.” Ken S. Keyes

Victor Hugo

“The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.” Victor Hugo

Henry Havelock Ellis

“It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.” Henry Havelock Ellis

Confucius

“When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.” Confucius

William Goldman

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.” William Goldman

Marcel Duchamp

“God is Man's stupidest idea.” Marcel Duchamp

John Steinbeck

“The only good writer was a dead writer. Then he couldn't surprise anyone any more, couldn't hurt anyone any more.” John Steinbeck

Albert Einstein

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” Albert Einstein

Aristotle

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle

Will Rogers

“We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.” Will Rogers

Friedrich Nietzsche

“One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa: with a blessing rather than in love.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Benjamin Franklin

“All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.” Benjamin Franklin

Friedrich Nietzsche

“God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Jean-Luc Godard

“I think women should never be more than 25. Men become more handsome as they age. Not women. It's greatly unfair for a woman to age.” Jean-Luc Godard

Albert Einstein

“All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.” Albert Einstein

Samuel Beckett

“Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one.” Samuel Beckett

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Woman was God's second mistake.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Thomas A. Edison

“There is no substitute for hard work.” Thomas A. Edison

Jean-Paul Sartre

“Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.” Jean-Paul Sartre

Anonymous

“Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words.” Anonymous

Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

Friedrich Nietzsche

“We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.” Friedrich Nietzsche

John Cage

“A newspaperman wrote asking me to send'im my philosophy in a nutshell. Get out of whatever cage you happen to be in.” John Cage

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man is what he thinks about all day long.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Woody Allen

“I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” Woody Allen

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Laozi

“When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'” Laozi

Aristotle

“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.” Aristotle

Stella Adler

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” Stella Adler

David Hudson Burnham

“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir Men's blood.” David Hudson Burnham

Albert Einstein

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” Albert Einstein

Dave Parnas

“Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'” Dave Parnas

Agatha Christie

“The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.” Agatha Christie

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Sunzi

“The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.” Sunzi

Napoleon Bonaparte

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” Napoleon Bonaparte

Aleister Crowley

“Every Man and every Woman is a Star.” Aleister Crowley

Thomas Henry Huxley

“Learn what is true in order to do what is right.” Thomas Henry Huxley

Henry Ward Beecher

“It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.” Henry Ward Beecher

John Wayne

“Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.” John Wayne

G. Randolf

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” G. Randolf

Fernando Pessoa

“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.” Fernando Pessoa

Pauline Kael

“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.” Pauline Kael

Friedrich Nietzsche

“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.” Friedrich Nietzsche

William Feather

“Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.” William Feather

James T. Conway

“Old men should be able to agree so young men don't have to die.” James T. Conway

Steve Roland Prefontaine

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” Steve Roland Prefontaine

Friedrich Nietzsche

“To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Paul Verlaine

“Take eloquence and wring its neck.” Paul Verlaine

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Hold a true friend with both your hands.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Unknown

“There may be harm in risk but there also regret in doing nothing.” Unknown

William Shakespeare

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in batallions.” William Shakespeare

Harold S. Geneen

“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” Harold S. Geneen

Charles F. Kettering

“You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” Charles F. Kettering

Jonathan Swift

“Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.” Jonathan Swift

Sunzi

“The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.” Sunzi

George Gordon Byron

“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.” George Gordon Byron

Mark Twain

“If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.” Mark Twain

Hannah Arendt

“Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures.” Hannah Arendt

Salman Rushdie

“Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?” Salman Rushdie

John Lennon

“Life is what happens when you are making other plans.” John Lennon

Ernest Hemingway

“Vice is a wonderful thing.” Ernest Hemingway

Dr. Seuss

“When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them & fall in mutual weirdness & call it love.” Dr. Seuss

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.” Friedrich Nietzsche

John Cassavetes

“I really resent being liked openly. I don't find any challenge in being liked.” John Cassavetes

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

“Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.” Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Bible

“He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much.” Bible

Jean Cocteau

“The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.” Jean Cocteau

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

“As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.” Rainer Werner Fassbinder

King James I

“[Smoking is] hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.” King James I

Henry Louis Mencken

“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.” Henry Louis Mencken

John Ong

“There's nothing quite like doing nothing.” John Ong

John Cage

“We're in a confusion of books. Bonfire?” John Cage

Charles Laughton

“I have a face like the behind of an elephant.” Charles Laughton

Michael Jordan

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” Michael Jordan

John Steinbeck

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found...” John Steinbeck

Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Much unhappiness has come into this world because of things left unsaid.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Marquis de Sade

“Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.” The Marquis de Sade

Jacques Lacan

“The Woman does not exist.” Jacques Lacan

Friedrich Nietzsche

“These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Robert Bly

“The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.” Robert Bly

Norm Macdonald

“I don't care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.” Norm Macdonald

Napoleon Bonaparte

“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.” Napoleon Bonaparte

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Aristotle

“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not thru insensibility but thru greatness of mind.” Aristotle

Joan Baez

“The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.” Joan Baez

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Kurt Cobain

“Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.” Kurt Cobain

William Shakespeare

“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.” William Shakespeare

Al Pacino

“All I got in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break either of 'em for nobody!” Al Pacino

Martin Kippenberger

“Nobody helps anybody.” Martin Kippenberger

Victor Hugo

“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.” Victor Hugo

Thomas Alva Edison

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” Thomas Alva Edison

Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Chinese Proverb

“Luck never gives: it only lends.” Chinese Proverb

Confucius

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” Confucius

Sunzi

“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.” Sunzi

Aristotle

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.” Aristotle

Francois Truffaut

“Is the cinema more important than life?” Francois Truffaut

Anonymous

“I want to die like my grandfather; peacefully in my sleep. Not screaming like his passengers.” Anonymous

Andy Warhol

“I would rather watch somebody buy their underwear than read a book they wrote.” Andy Warhol

George Bernard Shaw

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.” George Bernard Shaw

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

“The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.” Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Carl Sagan

“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” Carl Sagan

John Keats

“O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been Cooled a long age in the deep-delvid earth...” John Keats

Aristotle

“We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.” Aristotle

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

“A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it.” John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Saadi

“Patience accomplishes its object, while hurry speeds to its ruin.” Saadi

Sir Winston Churchill

“I like a man who grins when he fights.” Sir Winston Churchill

Gail Devers

“Every accomplishment begins with the decision to try.” Gail Devers

Noam Chomsky

“If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.” Noam Chomsky

Agnes Repplier

“There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.” Agnes Repplier

Friedrich Nietzsche

“There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Phaedrus

“Actors: Bores to themselves, to others caviar.” Phaedrus

John Steinbeck

“Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, beliving nothing we cannot measure or weigh.” John Steinbeck

Sunzi

“Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.” Sunzi

Victor Hugo

“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.” Victor Hugo

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Art raises its head where creeds relax.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Kenneth Tynan

“A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.” Kenneth Tynan

George Halas

“Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.” George Halas

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.” Gilbert Keith Chesterton

William Shakespeare

“Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge... / Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice / Cry 'havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war...” William Shakespeare

Norman McLaren

“Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.” Norman McLaren

Mark Twain

“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.” Mark Twain

Raymonde Uy

“Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.” Raymonde Uy

Oliver Reed

“I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.” Oliver Reed

Theodore Roosevelt

“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.” Theodore Roosevelt

Milton Berle

“You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.” Milton Berle

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Albert Einstein

“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to be a man of value.” Albert Einstein

Oscar Wilde

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.” Oscar Wilde

Unknown

“To love is to risk not being loved in return, but risk must be taken because the greatest jeopardy in life is to risk nothing.” Unknown

Anne Dillard

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” Anne Dillard

Hunter S. Thompson

“Ether is the perfect drug for Las Vegas. In this town they love a drunk. Fresh meat.” Hunter S. Thompson

Quentin Tarantino

“I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.” Quentin Tarantino

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

“No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Samuel Johnson

“Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.” Samuel Johnson

John D. Rockefeller

“A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.” John D. Rockefeller

Eda J. Le Shan

“When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death: ourselves.” Eda J. Le Shan

Albert Einstein

“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.” Albert Einstein

Sir Anthony Hopkins

“Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness [then].” Sir Anthony Hopkins

Anonymous

“To live is to dream and to die is to awaken.” Anonymous

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Richard Wagner

“To be German means to carry on a matter for its own sake.” Richard Wagner

Samuel Johnson

“Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.” Samuel Johnson

George Gershwin

“Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?” George Gershwin

Oscar Wilde

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” Oscar Wilde

Matthew Lotti

“Contempt for the world is what allows me to continue living in it.” Matthew Lotti

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Art is the proper task of life.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Michel Foucault

“One makes war to win, not because it's just.” Michel Foucault

Woody Allen

“Tradition is the illusion of permanance.” Woody Allen

Napoleon Bonaparte

“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.” Napoleon Bonaparte

Joe Orton

“Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call.” Joe Orton

William Shakespeare

“Readiness is all.” William Shakespeare

Thomas Gray

“Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.” Thomas Gray

Helen Keller

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” Helen Keller

F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Action is character.” F. Scott Fitzgerald

Neil Patel

“A good criterion for measuring success is the number of people you have made happy.” Neil Patel

The Buddha

“Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.” The Buddha

John A. Simone Jr.

“It's hard to lose when your standards are so low.” John A. Simone Jr.

George Orson Welles

“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” George Orson Welles

General George Patton

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” General George Patton

Euripides

“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.” Euripides

Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

George Orson Welles

“A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.” George Orson Welles

John Steinbeck

“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.” John Steinbeck

Richard A. May

“If it doesn't fit, get a bigger hammer.” Richard A. May

Friedrich Nietzsche

“A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Anonymous

“If you know you're going to look back on today and laugh, you might as well start laughing now.” Anonymous

General Michel Aoun

“Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.” General Michel Aoun

Ashleigh Brilliant

“Sometimes I need what only you can provide - Your absence.” Ashleigh Brilliant

Laozi

“The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.” Laozi

Woody Allen

“I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.” Woody Allen

Anonymous

“There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.” Anonymous

Yves Klein

“Judo is, in effect, the discovery of the human body in a spiritual space.” Yves Klein

John Cage

“Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'” John Cage

Ashleigh Brilliant

“I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.” Ashleigh Brilliant

Abraham Lincoln

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” Abraham Lincoln

Victor Hugo

“The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.” Victor Hugo

Finn Taylor

“There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff.” Finn Taylor

Aristotle

“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.” Aristotle

Jim Rohn

“You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.” Jim Rohn

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Victor Hugo

“To love another person is to see the face of God.” Victor Hugo

Theodore Roosevelt

“Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.” Theodore Roosevelt

Laozi

“Silence is a source of great strength.” Laozi

Samuel Goldwyn

“I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.” Samuel Goldwyn

Victor Hugo

“It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.” Victor Hugo

Groucho Marx

“Comedy is not so much what you do as what you don't do.” Groucho Marx

Philip Larkin

“Life is first boredom, then fear.” Philip Larkin

Ludwig Wittgenstein

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.” Ludwig Wittgenstein

Woody Allen

“If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.” Woody Allen

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Can an ass be tragic? To perish under a burden one can neither bear nor throw off? The case of the philosopher.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Oscar Wilde

“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.” Oscar Wilde

Dr. Seuss

“From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.” Dr. Seuss

Vince Lombardi

“If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?” Vince Lombardi

Richard Bach

“Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” Richard Bach

George Eliot

“Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.” George Eliot

Oscar Wilde

“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.” Oscar Wilde

Elvis Presley

“Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.” Elvis Presley

William Butler Yeats

“Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.” William Butler Yeats

Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

“Art and science have their meeting point in method.” Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

Robert A. Heinlein

“Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.” Robert A. Heinlein

Aristotle

“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.” Aristotle

Friedrich Nietzsche

“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche

John Paul Jones

“I have not yet begun to fight!” John Paul Jones

Nikos Kazantzakis

“I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.” Nikos Kazantzakis

Josh Billings

“If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles - on her own nose all the time.” Josh Billings

Matthew Lotti

“The more vivid your imagination, the more dangerous the world becomes.” Matthew Lotti

Abraham Lincoln

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln

John Charles Salak

“Failures are divided into two classes – those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.” John Charles Salak

Dorothy Parker

“It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.” Dorothy Parker

Princess Diana

“Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.” Princess Diana

Georges Louis Leclerc

“Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.” Georges Louis Leclerc

David Rakoff

“Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.” David Rakoff

Pen Densham

“There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions.” Pen Densham

Helen Keller

“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” Helen Keller

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.” Friedrich Nietzsche

John Ruskin

“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.” John Ruskin

Blaise Pascal

“Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.” Blaise Pascal

Leo Tolstoy

“Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.” Leo Tolstoy

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“The simplification of anything is always sensational.” Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Anonymous

“Who servers two masters has to lie to one.” Anonymous

Aristotle

“The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.” Aristotle

Thom Yorke

“I've got about the attention span of a gnat on speed.” Thom Yorke

Stanley Kubrick

“They're either at your throat or they're at your feet.” Stanley Kubrick

The Dalai Lama

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.” The Dalai Lama

Albert Einstein

“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for falling in love.” Albert Einstein

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.” Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sandra Carey

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.” Sandra Carey

Alexander Smith

“Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.” Alexander Smith

Gary Gesme

“People get into a rhythm that makes them resistant to change... try switching hands when you brush your teeth in the morning.” Gary Gesme

Richard Geni

“The way I look at life - we're all on the Hindenberg, so there's no use in arguing over the window seat.” Richard Geni

Carl Gustav Jung

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.” Carl Gustav Jung

Sam Keen

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.” Sam Keen

Aristotle

“Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.” Aristotle

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

“Not all who wander are lost.” John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Voltaire

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” Voltaire

Woody Allen

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.” Woody Allen

Archibald McLeish

“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.” Archibald McLeish

Voltaire

“Il faut cultiver notre jardin. [We must cultivate our garden.]” Voltaire

Swedish Proverb

“Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow.” Swedish Proverb

David Keuck

“Profanity is the common crutch of the conversational cripple.” David Keuck

Victor Hugo

“No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.” Victor Hugo

Karl Marx

“Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.” Karl Marx

Aldous Huxley

“To the senseless nothing is more maddening than sense.” Aldous Huxley

Wilson Mizner

“If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.” Wilson Mizner

George Orwell

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell

Elaine M. Ward

“The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be.” Elaine M. Ward

Sunzi

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” Sunzi

Aristotle

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle

Thomas Campbell

“To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.” Thomas Campbell

Dr. Seuss

“Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one.” Dr. Seuss

Hunter S. Thompson

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.” Hunter S. Thompson

John Steinbeck

“A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span.” John Steinbeck

Claude Rains

“A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.” Claude Rains

Victor Hugo

“Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.” Victor Hugo

Michel Montaigne

“Happiness is a singular incentive to mediocrity.” Michel Montaigne

Jonathan Franzen

“One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books.” Jonathan Franzen

Viktor E. Frankl

“The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.” Viktor E. Frankl

Winston Churchill

“The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.” Winston Churchill

John A. Simone Sr.

“God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all.” John A. Simone Sr.

Frank Sinatra

“Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.” Frank Sinatra

La Fontaine

“People who make no noise are dangerous.” La Fontaine

Max Guinn, Deere & Co.

“The end game is whether they (customers) are getting the right product at the right time at a competitive price.” Max Guinn, Deere & Co.

John Stuart Mill

“It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.” John Stuart Mill

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Plato was a bore.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Aristotle

“We make war that we may live in peace.” Aristotle

The Dalai Lama

“There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.” The Dalai Lama

Aldous Huxley

“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.” Aldous Huxley

Henry Ford

“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!” Henry Ford

Samuel Johnson

“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” Samuel Johnson

The Prophet Mohammad

“Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.” The Prophet Mohammad

Friedrich Nietzsche

“There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He.” Friedrich Nietzsche

George Orson Welles

“Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.” George Orson Welles

Anne Frank

“Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” Anne Frank

Billy Bob Thornton

“I had a divorce to pay for, frankly.” Billy Bob Thornton

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Woody Allen

“I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats.” Woody Allen

Joan Rivers

“I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.” Joan Rivers

Octave Mirbeau

“The joy of killing has become greater and, besides, has become popularized in proportion to the spread of social refinement.” Octave Mirbeau

William Shakespeare

“Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. By that sin fell the angels.” William Shakespeare

Marshall McLuhan

“Money is a poor man's credit card.” Marshall McLuhan

William Shakespeare

“I count myselt in nothing else so happy As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends.” William Shakespeare

Friedrich Nietzsche

“If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Daniel Day Lewis

“I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe I'm somebody else.” Daniel Day Lewis

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

Sir Noel Coward

“Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.” Sir Noel Coward

Dr. Anthony P. Witham

“Children spell love...T-I-M-E.” Dr. Anthony P. Witham

Sir Winston Churchill

“It is a good thing for the uneducated man to read books of quotations.” Sir Winston Churchill

Abraham Lincoln

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” Abraham Lincoln

Zadie Smith

“Make sure the lubricant is unscented. Don't join fashionable 'schools of thought.' Read everything.” Zadie Smith

Max Guinn, Deere & Co.

“Celebrate the speed at which you're traveling instead of the destination you've reached.” Max Guinn, Deere & Co.

Matthew Henry

“Blushing is the color of virtue.” Matthew Henry

Karsh of Ottawa

“The eyes are the windows to the soul.” Karsh of Ottawa

Andy Warhol

“They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol

Walt Disney

“I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.” Walt Disney

Joseph Addison

“To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.” Joseph Addison

John Steinbeck

“If I were hungry, I would happily hunt anything that runs or crawls or flies, even relatives, and tear them down with my teeth.” John Steinbeck

Alexander Dumas

“Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.” Alexander Dumas

Herman Melville

“There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.” Herman Melville

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich starker. Transl: Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Mark Twain

“Let us endeavor to live, so that when we die, even the undertaker will be sorry.” Mark Twain

Isaac Asimov

“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.” Isaac Asimov

George Bernard Shaw

“He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.” George Bernard Shaw

Napoleon Bonaparte

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” Napoleon Bonaparte

Mark Twain

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.” Mark Twain

Laozi

“Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.” Laozi

Alexander Pope

“To err is human; to forgive, divine.” Alexander Pope

George Carlin

“You live eighty years, and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic.” George Carlin

Dave Chappelle

“That's not true. Unless 'sense of humor' means 'money.' I don't believe them bitches for second.” Dave Chappelle

Aristotle

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” Aristotle

Oscar Wilde

“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.” Oscar Wilde

Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Human kind cannot bear very much reality.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

Satchel Paige

“Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.” Satchel Paige

Sigmund Freud

“Science is not illusion. But it would be an illusion to suppose that we could get anywhere else what it cannot give us.” Sigmund Freud

E. Jean Carroll

“Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted.” E. Jean Carroll

Socrates

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” Socrates

Steve Roland Prefontaine

“I run to see who has the most guts.” Steve Roland Prefontaine

Dylan Thomas

“Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Dylan Thomas

Victor Hugo

“To contemplate is to look at shadows.” Victor Hugo

St. Francis of Assisi

“Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.” St. Francis of Assisi

John Beecher

“Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.” John Beecher

Albert Einstein

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.” Albert Einstein

Pablo Picasso

“Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.” Pablo Picasso

Sir Winston Churchill

“One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided whenever possible.” Sir Winston Churchill

Doug Evelyn

“Long-range planning works best in the short term.” Doug Evelyn

Laozi

“Do difficult things while they're easy & do great things while they're small. A journey of a thousand miles begin with a single step.” Laozi

Martin Luther King Jr.

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” Martin Luther King Jr.

Sir Richard Burton

“You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.” Sir Richard Burton

Laozi

“I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.” Laozi

Leo Rosten

“First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.” Leo Rosten

Laozi

“For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.” Laozi

Lily Tomlin

“The trouble with the rat race is that, even if you win, you're still a rat.” Lily Tomlin

Arnold Glasow

“Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.” Arnold Glasow

Andreas Capellanus

“Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.” Andreas Capellanus

Bible

“A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.” Bible

Marcus Aurelius

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” Marcus Aurelius

Bertrand Russell

“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” Bertrand Russell

Anonymous

“As long as you can laugh at yourself you will never cease to be amused.” Anonymous

Benjamin Franklin

“The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.” Benjamin Franklin

Avril Lavigne

“I really like performing when I'm mad. And I'm always mad at boys.” Avril Lavigne

Michael Sicinski

“Real teens are a lot more circumspect when they're hot for someone.” Michael Sicinski

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“I think all great innovations are built on rejections.” Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Kahlil Gibran

“An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.” Kahlil Gibran

Friedrich Nietzsche

“This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Thomas Jefferson

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” Thomas Jefferson

Oscar Wilde

“The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.” Oscar Wilde

Japanese Proverb

“Fall down seven times; stand up eight times.” Japanese Proverb

Friedrich Nietzsche

“We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgment.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Thomas Alva Edison

“Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas Alva Edison

Albert Einstein

“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.” Albert Einstein

Nicolas Cage

“We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die.” Nicolas Cage

Victor Hugo

“Many great actions are committed in small struggles.” Victor Hugo

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?” Friedrich Nietzsche

Charles C. Noble

“You must have long range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short range failures.” Charles C. Noble

Victor Hugo

“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.” Victor Hugo

Joseph Addison

“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.” Joseph Addison

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Sigmund Freud

“Anxiety is the price we pay for civilization.” Sigmund Freud

Gary Busey

“Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.” Gary Busey

Anatole France

“If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” Anatole France

Laozi

“Be the chief but never the lord.” Laozi

Laozi

“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” Laozi

Thomas Beecham

“Try everything once except folk dancing and incest.” Thomas Beecham

Tom Waits

“I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth.” Tom Waits

Woody Allen

“Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.” Woody Allen

Albert Einstein

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” Albert Einstein

Andy Warhol

“I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.” Andy Warhol

German Proverb

“Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund. (Morning hours put gold in your mouth.)” German Proverb

Joe Orton

“It's Life that defeats the Christian Church. She's always well-equipped to deal with Death.” Joe Orton

William Tecumseh Sherman

“War is hell.” William Tecumseh Sherman

Friedrich Nietzsche

“In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.” Friedrich Nietzsche

John Cage

“Sometimes we blur the distinction between art and life; sometimes we try to clarify it. We don't stand on one leg. We stand on both.” John Cage

Mary Kay Ash

“There are 3 types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen and those who wonder what happened.” Mary Kay Ash

Friedrich Nietzsche

“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Chinese Proverb

“Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it.” Chinese Proverb

Aristotle

“For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.” Aristotle

Victor Hugo

“Toleration is the best religion.” Victor Hugo

Aristotle

“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.” Aristotle

Bob Dylan

“Blame it on a simple twist of fate.” Bob Dylan

Lee Simonson

“Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.” Lee Simonson

George Carlin

“Weather forecast for tonight: dark.” George Carlin

Wystan Hugh Auden

“Love each other or perish.” Wystan Hugh Auden

Dante Alighieri

“I love to doubt as well as know.” Dante Alighieri

Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.” Ludwig Wittgenstein

Jean-Luc Godard

“When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.” Jean-Luc Godard

Aristotle

“Man is by nature a political animal.” Aristotle

Elbert Hubbard

“To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” Elbert Hubbard

William Hazlitt

“Many a man would have turned rogue if he had known how.” William Hazlitt

George Carlin

“Could it be that all those trick-or-treaters wearing sheets aren't going as ghosts but as mattresses?” George Carlin

Kate Bratskeir

“There is power to visualization. Simply picture yourself accomplishing your goals for the day in stride, and you'll be closer to doing so.” Kate Bratskeir

Aristotle

“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.” Aristotle

Victor Hugo

“Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.” Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

“When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.” Victor Hugo

Groucho Marx

“Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.” Groucho Marx

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

Victor Hugo

“Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.” Victor Hugo

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I hate quotations, tell me what you know.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Edger Allen Poe

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.” Edger Allen Poe

Zig Ziglar

“It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.” Zig Ziglar

Red Adair

“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” Red Adair

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I call architecture frozen music.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Calvin Coolidge

“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” Calvin Coolidge

James Douglas Morrison

“Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.” James Douglas Morrison

A. A. Milne

“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” A. A. Milne

William Thoreau

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” William Thoreau

Fred Allen

“A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.” Fred Allen

Ambrose Bierce

“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.” Ambrose Bierce

Unknown

“Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.” Unknown

William Allen White

“I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!” William Allen White

Bertrand Russell

“In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.” Bertrand Russell

Tug McGraw

“Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted.” Tug McGraw

Edward Young

“There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.” Edward Young

John Cage

“Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want.” John Cage

Karl Marx

“The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.” Karl Marx

Erik Satie

“We must be uncompromising to the end.” Erik Satie

Emma Lazarus

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Emma Lazarus

The Comte de Lautreamont

“Generosity enjoys the happiness of others, as though it were responsible for it.” The Comte de Lautreamont

Ed Ruggero

“With difficult questions, there are many truths.” Ed Ruggero

Shigeru Miyamoto

“Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll.” Shigeru Miyamoto

Sydney J. Harris

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” Sydney J. Harris

Andrew Wilkes-Krier

“When someone comes up and tells me that they love the music, I yell, 'Me too!' And we just hug.” Andrew Wilkes-Krier

Andy Warhol

“The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I'll repeat them after him.” Andy Warhol

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Norman Vincent Peale

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” Norman Vincent Peale

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Ernest Bevin

“The first thing todecide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if other fellow says no.” Ernest Bevin

Leo Burnett

“When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't.” Leo Burnett

Nathan Lane

“Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater--you do the math!” Nathan Lane

Aristotle

“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.” Aristotle

Warren Buffett

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.” Warren Buffett

Hjalmar Soderberg

“A true soul need not hide his thoughts.” Hjalmar Soderberg

Tom Stoppard

“It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.” Tom Stoppard

Victor Hugo

“Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.” Victor Hugo

Lindsay Anderson

“What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?” Lindsay Anderson

The Prophet Mohammad

“To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil.” The Prophet Mohammad

Mark Twain

“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” Mark Twain

Thomas Carlyle

“Who so belongs only to his age references only poppinjays and mumbo-jumbos.” Thomas Carlyle

Aristotle

“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.” Aristotle

Ernest Hemingway

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” Ernest Hemingway

Victor Hugo

“Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.” Victor Hugo

Pauline Kael

“Responsible artists try to affect you sensually in a way that enlarges your experience.” Pauline Kael

Plato

“At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.” Plato

German Proverb

“Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest I rust.)” German Proverb

George Orson Welles

“I have an unfortunate personality.” George Orson Welles

Steve Jobs

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” Steve Jobs

Voltaire

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” Voltaire

Friedrich Nietzsche

“The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Erica Jong

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.” Erica Jong

Victor Hugo

“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.” Victor Hugo

Sir Winston Churchill

“I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” Sir Winston Churchill

Victor Hugo

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!” Victor Hugo

Chinese Proverb

“Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.” Chinese Proverb

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Everyone has the right to risk their own life in order to save it.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

William Tecumseh Sherman

“If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world but I am sure we would be getting reports from hell before breakfast.” William Tecumseh Sherman

Sunzi

“The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.” Sunzi

Woody Allen

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” Woody Allen

Laozi

“Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there's nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” Laozi

Noam Chomsky

“Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror.” Noam Chomsky

Tim Westergren

“Just be prepared for a long and often uncertain journey. The good stuff doesn't come easy.” Tim Westergren

Anonymous

“A bestfriend is a sibling God forgot to give you.” Anonymous

Woody Allen

“The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.” Woody Allen

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

“An author ought to write for the youth of his generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of the afterward.” Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

James Douglas Morrison

“Getting drunk, you're in control. It's the difference between suicide and capitulation.” James Douglas Morrison

John Gardner

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” John Gardner

Victor Hugo

“There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.” Victor Hugo

Marian Wright Edelman

“You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.” Marian Wright Edelman

Thomas Stearns Eliot

“This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

Abraham Lincoln

“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.” Abraham Lincoln

Theodore Roosevelt

“Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.” Theodore Roosevelt

Henry Louis Mencken

“Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.” Henry Louis Mencken

Anonymous

“The darkest hour is only sixty minutes.” Anonymous

Sir Noel Coward

“It's discourging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” Sir Noel Coward

Alice Walker

“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.” Alice Walker

Laozi

“In the world there's nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.” Laozi

Frank Zappa

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.” Frank Zappa

Charlie Chaplin

“In the end, everything is a gag.” Charlie Chaplin

Andre Williams

“It's a rough temptation, but a common invitation ... So take my advice, that's jail bait.” Andre Williams

William Butler Yeats

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” William Butler Yeats