William F. Buckley, Jr.

"I get satisfaction of three kinds. One is creating something, one is being paid for it and one is the feeling that I haven't just been sitting on my ass all afternoon."
- William F. Buckley, Jr.

Eden Phillpotts

"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
- Eden Phillpotts

Gore Vidal

"The trouble with Australian politics is that you only see the tip of the icecube"
- Gore Vidal

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Steven Wright

It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
- Steven Wright

Tom Morris

Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.
- Tom Morris

Henry Louis Mencken

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
- Henry Louis Mencken

Will Rogers

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
- Will Rogers

Jack Handey

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
- Jack Handey

Ogden Nash

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
- Ogden Nash

Nelson Mandela

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
- Nelson Mandela

Thomas Paine

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
- Thomas Paine

Mark Twain

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to better world, I am moved to lead a different life.
- Mark Twain

Michelangelo

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
- Michelangelo

Erma Bombeck

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
- Erma Bombeck

Jayne Mansfield

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.
- Jayne Mansfield

Dennis Miller

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.
- Dennis Miller

C. S. Lewis

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
- C. S. Lewis

Tenneva Jordan

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
- Tenneva Jordan

Yogi Berra

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra

Douglas Casey

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
- Douglas Casey

Leonardo da Vinci

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Ambrose Bierce

What this country needs and what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
- Ambrose Bierce

Oscar Levant

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
- Oscar Levant

Woody Allen

"Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand."
- Woody Allen

Ayn Rand

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
- Ayn Rand

Abraham Lincoln

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
- Abraham Lincoln

James M. Barrie

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
- James M. Barrie

Oscar Wilde

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
- Oscar Wilde

Friedrich Nietzsche

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche