Andrew Carnegie

"If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes."
- Andrew Carnegie

Paul Gauguin

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
- Paul Gauguin

Winston Churchill

If you're going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be under.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Franklin P. Jones

All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.
- Franklin P. Jones

Wernher von Braun

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
- Wernher von Braun

Ellen DeGeneres

I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.
- Ellen DeGeneres

H. L. Mencken

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
- H. L. Mencken

William Gibson

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
- William Gibson

Charles Schulz

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation it would be the ability of each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
- Charles Schulz

Steven Wright

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
- Steven Wright

Phillip C. McGraw

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.
- Phillip C. McGraw

Fran Lebowitz

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
- Fran Lebowitz

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Confucius

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- Confucius (Chinese Philosopher) 551-479 B.C.

W.C. Fields

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil's Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon--and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.
- W.C. Fields

C. S. Lewis

If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows...then we must starve eternally.
- C. S. Lewis

Buddha

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
- Buddha

John F. Kennedy

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
- John F. Kennedy

Henry Youngman

If at first you don't succeed... So much for skydiving.
- Henry Youngman

Edith Sitwell

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
- Edith Sitwell

Jean Paul Getty

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
- Jean Paul Getty

Luis Bunuel

Thank God I'm an atheist.
- Luis Bunuel

G. Gordon Liddy

Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
- G. Gordon Liddy

P. J. O'Rourke

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
- P. J. O'Rourke

Albert Einstein

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein

George Bernard Shaw

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
- George Bernard Shaw

Calvin Trillin

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
- Calvin Trillin

Mark Twain

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
- Mark Twain