M H Alderson

If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average.
- M H Alderson

Damon Runyon

You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
- Damon Runyon

Ambrose Bierce

COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
- Ambrose Bierce

H. L. Mencken

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
- H. L. Mencken

Aldous Huxley

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
- Aldous Huxley

Aesop

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
- Aesop

Thomas Fuller

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."
- Thomas Fuller

George Herbert

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
- George Herbert

Ellen Degeneres

The sixties were when hallucinogentic drugs were really, really big. And I don't think it's a coincidence that we had the type of shows we had then, like The Flying Nun.
- Ellen Degeneres

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

Clive James

As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
- Clive James

Billy Graham

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
- Billy Graham

Thomas Carlyle

The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
- Thomas Carlyle

Carl Sagan

Except for children (who don't know enough not to ask the important questions), few of us spendtime wondering why nature is the way it is . . .
- Carl Sagan

Dan OBrien

The only way to overcome is to hang in. Even I'm starting to believe that.
- Dan OBrien

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Barry Switzer

"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."
- Barry Switzer (1937 - )

Vincent Van Gogh

"There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning."
- Vincent Van Gogh

Oscar Wilde

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
- Oscar Wilde

John Wayne

I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst's couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.
- John Wayne

Charles Schulz

"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."
- Charles Schulz

Tao Te Ching

Success is as dangerous as failure, and we are often our own worst enemy.
- Tao Te Ching

Dalai Lama

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
- Dalai Lama

Will Rogers

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
- Will Rogers

John F. Kennedy

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
- John F. Kennedy

Lillian Smith

"I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within."
- Lillian Smith

George Bernard Shaw

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
- George Bernard Shaw

Confucius

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
- Confucius

Albert Einstein

God is subtle but he is not malicious.
- Albert Einstein

Mark Twain

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.
- Mark Twain