Havelock Ellis

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
- Havelock Ellis

Helen Keller

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
- Helen Keller

Adam Sandler

If I ever caught myself dressed like that, I'd have to kick my own ass!
- Adam Sandler

John Ruskin

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
- John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist

Robert Orben

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
- Robert Orben

Will Durant

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant

Sir William Osler

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
- Sir William Osler

Bertrand Russell

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Impact of Science on Society (1952) ch. 1

George Bernard Shaw

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
- George Bernard Shaw

Jimmy Buffett

We are the people our parents warned us about.
- Jimmy Buffett

Mary Kay Ash

"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
- Mary Kay Ash

William Congreve

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
- William Congreve

Groucho Marx

I'm not feeling very well, I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.
- Groucho Marx

Douglas Adams

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.
- Douglas Adams

Victor Hugo

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Oscar Wilde

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
- Oscar Wilde

Agatha Christie

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.
- Agatha Christie

Maria Schell

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
- Maria Schell

Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Ambrose Bierce

POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
- Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary

Milton Berle

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
- Milton Berle

Winston Churchill

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

Pierre Gallois

If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and no-one dares criticize it.
- Pierre Gallois

Huey P. Long

People say I steal. Well, all politicians steal.
- Huey P. Long

Abraham Lincoln

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

Albert Einstein

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death"
- Albert Einstein

William Feather

Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
- William Feather

John Wooden

"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"
- John Wooden

Will Rogers

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers

Mark Twain

Hannibal has had a hard time of it ever since I can recollect, and I was "raised" there. First, it had me for a citizen, but I was too young then to really hurt the place.
- Mark Twain