Al Samawah

It takes two sides to make war. It only takes one side to make a massacre.
- Al Samawah

Seneca the Younger

The best ideas are common property.
- Seneca the Younger, On Tranquility of Mind

Charles Bukowsk

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
- Charles Bukowsk

A. J. Ayer

No moral system can rest solely on authority.
- A. J. Ayer

George Bernard Shaw

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
- George Bernard Shaw

John Dewey

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
- John Dewey

Charlotte Carpenter

Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree."
- Charlotte Carpenter

Francis Bacon

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon

Sir Joshua Reynolds

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.
- Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792)

Chinese Proverb

"A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books."
- Chinese Proverb

Albert Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
- Albert Einstein

Dr. Joyce Brothers.

"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash."
- Dr. Joyce Brothers.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Abraham Lincoln

Denis Waitley

"View life as a continuous learning experience."
- Denis Waitley

George Carlin

I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.
- George Carlin

Lawrence Shames

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.
- Lawrence Shames

Rene Descartes

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"

Josiah G. Holland

The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart.
- Josiah G. Holland

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobile rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Maya Angelow

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.
- Maya Angelow

Colin Powell

Get mad, then get over it.
- Colin Powell

Flower A. Newhouse

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.
- Flower A. Newhouse

Billy Sunday

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
- Billy Sunday

Friedrich Nietzsche

What is it : is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
- Friedrich Nietzsche

David Brinkley

A successful man is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him
- David Brinkley

Richard Armour

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
- Richard Armour

Woody Allen

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
- Woody Allen

Farrah Fawcett Majors

The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.
- Farrah Fawcett Majors

Oscar Wilde

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
- Oscar Wilde

Mark Twain

"A man speaking of being run out of town on a rail said, 'Except for the honor of it, I would've just as soon walked.'"
- Mark Twain