Samuel Butler

I don't mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
- Samuel Butler

Rodney Dangerfield

Always look out for number one and be careful not to step in number two.
- Rodney Dangerfield

Eric Hoffer

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
- Eric Hoffer

Susan Ert z

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
-Susan Ert z

Samuel Johnson

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
- Samuel Johnson

Lynn Johnston

No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.
- Lynn Johnston

Carol Nelson

Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home.
- Carol Nelson

Spencer Tracy

It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it.
- Spencer Tracy

Bonnie Lin

We are all either fools or undiscovered geniuses.
- Bonnie Lin

Edgar Watson Howe

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
- Edgar Watson Howe

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Zig Ziglar

"Success is dependent upon the glands--sweat glands."
- Zig Ziglar

Og Mandino

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars."
- Og Mandino

Marcus Aurelius

"I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others."
- Marcus Aurelius

Friedrich Nietzsche

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Leo Burnett

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
- Leo Burnett

Italian Proverb

"Once the game is over the king and the pawn go back in the same box."
- Italian Proverb

John Wooden

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

Cicero

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
- Cicero

Joseph Conrad

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.
- Joseph Conrad

Adlai Stevenson

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai Stevenson

Fanny Brice

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
- Fanny Brice

Emmet Fox

You are not happy because you are well. You are well because you are happy.You are not depressed because trouble has come to you, but trouble has come to you because you are depressed. You can change your thoughts and feelings, and then the outer things will come to correspond, and indeed there is no other way of working.
- Emmet Fox

Michael Jordan

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
- Michael Jordan

Helen Keller

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
- Helen Keller

Jack Handey

I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then, when somebody comes up, act like they just woke up and go, "What was THAT?!"
- Jack Handey

John McCain

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.
- John McCain

Johann von Goethe

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
- Johann von Goethe

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."
- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

George Bernard Shaw

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
- George Bernard Shaw

Mark Twain

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles . . . by the ears, by the heels or any other way you can manage it. It's the healthiest thing a body can do.
- Mark Twain