Winston Churchill

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill

Plato

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
- Plato

Lao-Tzu

To see things in the seed is genius.
- Lao-Tzu

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.
- Marion Zimmer Bradley

Henny Youngman

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.
- Henny Youngman

George Best

"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered."
- George Best

Ray Bradbury

"I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane."
- Ray Bradbury

Jim Rohn

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
- Jim Rohn

Lady Bird Johnson

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
- Lady Bird Johnson

H. L. Mencken

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken

Brigitte Bardot

I am leaving the town to the invaders: increasingly numerous, mediocre, dirty, badly behaved, shameless tourists.
- Brigitte Bardot

Anton Chekhov

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

Lyndon Johnson

A president's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
- Lyndon Johnson

Bette Davis

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.
- Bette Davis

Medgar Evers

Our only hope is to control the vote.
- Medgar Evers

Bo Jackson

Set your goals high, and dont stop till you get there.
- Bo Jackson

Ronald Reagan

We are a nation that has a government, not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.
- Ronald Reagan

Sir Roger L'Estrange

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.
- Sir Roger L'Estrange

Robert Orben

Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.
- Robert Orben

Thomas Jefferson

In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson

Woody Allen

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
- Woody Allen

Buddha

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- Buddha

John F. Kennedy

What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children - not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women - not merely peace in our time but peace for all time.
- John F. Kennedy

Tao Te Ching

When the country falls into chaos, politicians talk about 'patriotism'.
- Tao Te Ching

Confucius

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
- Confucius

Will Rogers

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
- Will Rogers

Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde

Abraham Lincoln

"When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion."
- Abraham Lincoln

George Bernard Shaw

"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."
- George Bernard Shaw

Albert Einstein

The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein

Mark Twain

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
- Mark Twain