John Plomp

You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
- John Plomp

Ada Leverson

You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her.
- Ada Leverson

Bill Shoemaker

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.
- Bill Shoemaker

Cleveland Amory

The New England conscience. . . doesn't stop you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just stops you from enjoying it.
- Cleveland Amory

Steve Ballesteros

To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.
- Steve Ballesteros

Jean Kerr

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.
- Jean Kerr

George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
- George Bernard Shaw

Winston Churchill

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
- Winston Churchill

J. Churton Collins

In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.
- J. Churton Collins

George H Bush

I want a kinder, gentler nation.
- George H Bush

Sigmund Freud

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future.
- Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

Tao Te Ching

If you don't trust the people, they will become untrustworthy.
- Tao Te Ching

Yogi Berra

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."
- Yogi Berra

Gerhard Kocher

After each stay in a hospital I live extremely healthy (sometimes up to five days!).
- Gerhard Kocher

James Thurber

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
- James Thurber

Georg C. Lichtenberg

There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg

Jean Baptiste Molière

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

H. L. Mencken

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
- H. L. Mencken

Charles M. Schulz

I think I've discovered the secret of life, you just hang around until you get used to it.
- Charles M. Schulz

William James

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
- William James

Wayne Dyer

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you."
- Wayne Dyer

Marlene Dietrich

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
- Marlene Dietrich

Ambrose Bierce

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
- Ambrose Bierce

George Carlin

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
- George Carlin

Plato

You cannot conceive the many without the one.
- Plato

Woody Allen

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- Woody Allen

Will Rogers

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
- Will Rogers

George Bernard Shaw

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
- George Bernard Shaw

Oscar Wilde

Biography lends to death a new terror.
- Oscar Wilde

Albert Einstein

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein

Mark Twain

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
- Mark Twain