John Clare

The present is the funeral of the past, And man the living sepulchre of life.
- John Clare

Ambrose Bierce

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.
- Ambrose Bierce

Martha Duffy

"A fastidious person in the throes of love is a rich source of mirth."
- Martha Duffy

Conrad Hilton

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
- Conrad Hilton

Khalil Gibran

"And think not, you can direct the course of love; for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course".
- Khalil Gibran

Al Bundy

Pretty women make us buy beer. Ugly women make us drink beer.
- Al Bundy

Chester Bowles

"Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians."
- Chester Bowles

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Christopher Morley

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity."
- Christopher Morley

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

"A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck."
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principle.
- Juan Antonio Samaranch

Millicent Fenwick

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
- Millicent Fenwick

Isadora Duncan

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences.
- Isadora Duncan

Ellen Degeneres

I don't understand the sizes anymore. There's a size zero, which I didn't even know that they had. It must stand for: "Ohhh my God, you're thin."
- Ellen Degeneres

Thomas Fuller

A man is not good or bad for one action.
- Thomas Fuller

Erma Bombeck

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
- Erma Bombeck

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Lyndon B. Johnson

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose."
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Arthur Rubenstein

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."
- Arthur Rubenstein

Victor Frankl

I deem it to be a remarkable fact that man, as long as he regarded himself as a creature, interpreted his existence in the image of God, his creator; but as soon as he started considering himself as a creator, began to interpret his existence merely in the image of his own creation, the machine.
- Victor Frankl

C. G. Jung

"Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other"
- C. G. Jung

Will Rogers

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
- Will Rogers

Erich Fromm

"If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism."
- Erich Fromm - Art of Loving - 1957

H. L. Mencken

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- H. L. Mencken

Eric Berne

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
- Eric Berne

Walter William

A thief is more moral than a congressman; when a thief steals your money, he doesn't demand you thank him.
- Walter William

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost.
- Confucius

Oscar Wilde

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
- Oscar Wilde

Buddha

It is better to travel well than to arrive.
- Buddha

George Bernard Shaw

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
- George Bernard Shaw

Mark Twain

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- Mark Twain