Lenny Bruce

The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is.
- Lenny Bruce

Meg Singer

Why make something simple when you can make it complicated?
- Meg Singer

Woody Allen

A Bay Area bisexual told me I didn't quite coincide with either of his desires.
- Woody Allen

Martina Sullivan

Don't say or write something you don't want published or repeated.
- Martina Sullivan

Mohandas Gandhi

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
- Mohandas Gandhi

Norman Mailer

 I've made an ass out of myself so many times I often wonder if I am one.

- Norman Mailer

Philippos

"Not everything has to mean something."
- Philippos

Le Thu Sullivan

Hold me but don't TOUCH me.
- Le Thu Sullivan

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What is my life if I am no longer useful to others."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

John Sullivan

I moved to Arizona to get used to the heat - for when I die!

- John Sullivan

Oscar Wilde

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

- Oscar Wilde

Chuck Palahniuk

"The best way to waste your life, ... is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate."

- Chuck Palahniuk

Lewis Carroll

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."

- Lewis Carroll

Erma Bombeck

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'." 

- Erma Bombeck

David Niven

You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.
- David Niven

Errol Flynn

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

- Errol Flynn

Albert Einstein

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Mother Teresa

God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.

- Mother Teresa

Samuel Johnson

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.  

- Samuel Johnson

William Penn

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- William Penn

Julius Charles Hare

Be what you are.  This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. 

- Julius Charles Hare

George Bernard Shaw

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

- George Bernard Shaw 

Gelett Burgess

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lie happiness.

- Gelett Burgess

Charlton Heston

"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."

- Charlton Heston

Ann Landers

Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.

- Ann Landers

P. J. O'Rourke

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

- P. J. O'Rourke 

Robert Frost

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

- Robert Frost 

Ayn Rand

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

- Ayn Rand

Mark Twain

I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
- Mark Twain

Heinrich Heine

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
- Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) German poet