Jon Campbell

It is not how smart you are rather, it is how you are smart.
- Jon Campbell

William E. Gladstone

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
- William E. Gladstone

Charles De Gaulle

"How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"
- Charles De Gaulle

David Smith

"In this business you either sink or swim or you don't."
- David Smith

Lewis Carroll

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll

Beatrice Potter Webb

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
- Beatrice Potter Webb

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is a series of collisions with the future, it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Bette Davis

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.
- Bette Davis

Steven Wright

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
- Steven Wright

Richard Nixon

A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself.
- Richard Nixon

Frank Tyger

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
- Frank Tyger

Andrea Dworkin

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
- Andrea Dworkin

E. B. White

"Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind."
- E. B. White

Michel de Montaigne

"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
- Michel de Montaigne

John le Carre

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."
- John le Carre

Helen Keller

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
- Helen Keller

Umberto Eco

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco

Benedict Spinoza

Freedom is absolutely necessary for progress in science and the liberal arts. Everyone has as much right as he has might.
- Benedict Spinoza

Miller McCune

Handwriting is dying because it's a slow and inefficient way of getting our thoughts out -- a hindrance to thinking, given the alternatives.
- Miller McCune

H. L. Mencken

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken

Price Pritchett

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.
- Price Pritchett

Edward W. Howe

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
- Edward W. Howe

Ambrose Bierce

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
- Ambrose Bierce

Fred R. Barnard

One picture is worth a thousand words.
- Fred R. Barnard

Robert Orben

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.
- Robert Orben

George Bernard Shaw

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Oscar Wilde

I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
- Oscar Wilde

William Shakespeare

"This is the short and the long of it."
- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. (1564-1616)

Mark Twain

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
- Mark Twain