Maurice Chevalier

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
- Maurice Chevalier

Friedrich Nietzsche

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Jennifer Louden

I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others."
- Jennifer Louden

David Carradine

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
- David Carradine

Taisen Deshimaru

"Time is not a line, but a series of now points."
- Taisen Deshimaru

Paul Valéry

A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
- Paul Valéry

Paul Klee

A line is a dot that went for a walk.
- Paul Klee

Euripides

It is a good thing to be rich, it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.
- Euripides (480-406 BC) Greek Playwright

François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Oliver Wendell

Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
- Oliver Wendell

Lazlo

I asked for riches, that I may be happy; I was given poverty, that I might be wise.
- Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom

Alexander Hamilton

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
- Alexander Hamilton

Golda Meir

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
- Golda Meir

Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Larry Brown

The most romantic thing any woman ever said to me in bed was: "Are you sure you're not a cop?"
- Larry Brown

Jayne Mansfield

A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.
- Jayne Mansfield

Adlai E. Stevenson

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
- Adlai E. Stevenson

e.e. cummings

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e.e. cummings

Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

Thomas R. Dewar

"Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter."
- Thomas R. Dewar

Jim Rohn

"The twin killers of success are impatience and greed."
- Jim Rohn

Walt Whitman

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
- Walt Whitman

Karl Marx

"Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex"
- Karl Marx

Harrison Ford

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
- Harrison Ford

Raymond Hull

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.
- Raymond Hull

Oscar Wilde

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
- Oscar Wilde

Adlai Stevenson

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
- Adlai Stevenson

Jack Handey

"If you're robbing a bank and you're pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too, because, come on, life is funny."
- Jack Handey

George Bernard Shaw

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
- George Bernard Shaw

Aristotle

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

Mark Twain

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain