Ava Gardner

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
- Ava Gardner

Doris Egan

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
- Doris Egan

Berthold Auerbach

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach

Jean Baptiste Molière

Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses.
- Jean Baptiste Molière, Le Malade Imaginaire

Margaret Case Harriman

Money is what you'd get on beautifully without if only other people weren't so crazy about it.
- Margaret Case Harriman

Malcolm Forbes

By the time we've made it, we've had it.
- Malcolm Forbes

Don Marquis

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
- Don Marquis

Mencius

All men have a mind which cannot bear to see the sufferings of others.
- Mencius

Lord Byron

"In her first passion woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love."
- George Gordon Lord Byron

Kim Anderson

"You love simply because you cannot help it."
- Kim Anderson

Jean Rostand

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
- Jean Rostand

Terry Pratchett

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
- Terry Pratchett

Heraclitus

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
- Heraclitus, Eustathius ad Iliad

Napoleon

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon

Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Seeking is not always the way to find.
- Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Anthony Price

The Devil himself had probably re-designed Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.
- Anthony Price

Arthur Schopenhauer

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Yogi Berra

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.
- Yogi Berra

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Pamela Singer Irons

Bruises are just nature's way of saying "good try."
Pamela Singer Irons

Ambrosius Macrobius

Good laws have their origins in bad morals.
- Ambrosius Macrobius

James Baldwin

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)

Johann Wolfgang von Goeth

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Charles Luckman

Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.
- Charles Luckman

Confucius

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
- Confucius

Carl Sagan

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
- Carl Sagan

Oscar Wilde

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
- Oscar Wilde

Woody Allen

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
- Woody Allen

George Bernard Shaw

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
- George Bernard Shaw

Albert Einstein

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Mark Twain

The man who is born stingy can be taught to give liberally-with his hands; but not with his heart. The man born kind and compassionate can have that disposition crushed down out of sight by embittering experience; but if it were an organ the postmortem would find it in his corpse.
- Mark Twain