C. S. Lewis

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
- C. S. Lewis

Albert Einstein

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
- Albert Einstein

Gabrielle Colette Colette

What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!
- Gabrielle Colette Colette

Goethe

"I want to know God's thoughts... the rest are details."
- Goethe

Bertrand Russell

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

H. L. Mencken

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
- H. L. Mencken

Marguerite Duras

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.
- Marguerite Duras

Thomas Jefferson

Information is the currency of democracy.
- Thomas Jefferson

Voltaire

"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."
- Voltaire

George Elliot

"It's never too late to become the person you might have been."
- George Elliot

Plato

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- Plato

Ellen Degeneres

What's with this sudden choice of disorders we get right now? When I was a kid, we just had crazy people, that's it, just crazy people.
- Ellen Degeneres

Babe Ruth

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club wont be worth a dime.
- Babe Ruth

Will Rogers

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.
- Will Rogers

Anton Chekhov

Any idiot can face a crisis, it's day to day living that wears you out.
- Anton Chekhov

Mickey Friedman

Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.
- Mickey Friedman

Michael Jordan

I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
- Michael Jordan

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
- Sydney J. Harris

Leon Trotsky

"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
- Leon Trotsky

Muriel Rukeyser

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
- Muriel Rukeyser

Alan Alda

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
- Alan Alda

John F. Kennedy

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy

Anton Chekhov

Any idiot can face a crisis, it's day to day living that wears you out.
- Anton Chekhov

Robert J. Ringer

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.
- Robert J. Ringer

Francis Bacon

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
- Francis Bacon

Benjamin Franklin

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.
- Benjamin Franklin

Oscar Wilde

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
- Oscar Wilde

Barbara Tober

"Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening."
- Barbara Tober

Martha Washington

"I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."
- Martha Washington

George Bernard Shaw

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
- George Bernard Shaw

Mark Twain

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain