John Kenneth Galbraith

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Ambrose Bierce

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
- Ambrose Bierce

Mahatma Gandhi

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Jean-Luc Godard

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
- Jean-Luc Godard

Samuel Johnson

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
- Samuel Johnson

Earl Nightingale

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.
- Earl Nightingale

Chester Alan Arthur

Good ballplayers make good citizens.
- Chester Alan Arthur

John F. Kennedy

I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize that the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war - and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears. But we have no more urgent task.
- John F. Kennedy

Simone de Beauvoir

One is not born a genius. One becomes a genius.
- Simone de Beauvoir

E. M. Cioran

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
- E. M. Cioran

Dan O'Brien

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

Minnie Fiske

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
- Minnie Fiske

Friedrich Nietzsche

The future influences the present just as much as the past.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Pablo Picasso

The chief enemy of creativity is good taste.
- Pablo Picasso

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Ezra Pound

AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??
- Ezra Pound

Lord Byron

There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
- Lord Byron

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Will Rogers

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
- Will Rogers

Eric Hoffer

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
- Eric Hoffer

H. L. Mencken

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
- H. L. Mencken

Robert Orben

Spring is God's way of saying, 'One more time!'
- Robert Orben

Abraham Lincoln

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln

Winston Churchill

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill

Confucius

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius

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

Buddha

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- Buddha

Ellen Degeneres

I see those picketers, and I think you know, if I weren't a loving, non-violent, spiritual person, I would really go over there and grab those signs and smash them over their heads and shove them up their asses. But... I'm a loving, spiritual person.
- Ellen Degeneres

Albert Einstein

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
- Albert Einstein

Mark Twain

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
- Mark Twain