George Aiken

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
- George Aiken

Will Rogers

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
- Will Rogers

Diana Jordan

Men are simple things. They can survive a whole weekend with only three things: beer, boxer shorts and batteries for the remote control.
- Diana Jordan

Jonathan Swift

If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
- Jonathan Swift

Victor Hugo

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
- Victor Hugo

Alexandre Dumas

Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
- Alexandre Dumas

Peter Drucker

"Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future."
- Peter Drucker

Bill Bradley

When was the last time you talked about race with someone of a different race? If the answer is never, you're part of the problem.
- Bill Bradley

Jack Handey

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
- Jack Handey

Jack Handey

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
- Jack Handey

Thomas Mann

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
- Thomas Mann

Scott Adams

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately.
- Scott Adams

Pearl S. Buck

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."
- Pearl S. Buck

Aneurin Bevan

Virtue is its own punishment.
- Aneurin Bevan

Jonathan Winters

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
- Jonathan Winters

Lewis Carroll

She generally gave herself good advice (though she very seldom followed it).
- Lewis Carroll

Isaac Asimov

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov

Thomas Jefferson

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson

Wernher von Braun

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Wernher von Braun

Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Dalai Lama

Peter McWilliams

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
- Peter McWilliams

Norman Vincent Peale

"Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
- Norman Vincent Peale

Barry Goldwater

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
- Barry Goldwater

Leonardo da Vinci

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
- Leonardo da Vinci

James M. Barrie

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
- James M. Barrie

Napoleon Bonaparte

A leader is a dealer in hope.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

George Bernard Shaw

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
- George Bernard Shaw

Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein

Fred Allen

Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)

Charlton Heston

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners.
- Charlton Heston

Mark Twain

When red headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
- Mark Twain