H. L. Mencken

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- H. L. Mencken

Cullen Hightower

"Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness."
- Cullen Hightower

Paul Sweeney

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
- Paul Sweeney

Theodore Dreiser

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
- Theodore Dreiser

Helen Rowland

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."
- Helen Rowland

Fulton J. Sheen

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
- Fulton J. Sheen

James H. Boren

A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
- James H. Boren

William Somerset Maugham

Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
- William Somerset Maugham

Ellen Degeneres

I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from... you heterosexuals.
- Ellen Degeneres

Byron R. White

When the whistle blows you have only a limited amount of time to do what you have to do. You either do it then or you don't do it at all.
- Byron R. White

Lou Brock

Show me a guy whos afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
- Lou Brock

Eric Hoffer

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
- Eric Hoffer

Lord Acton

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
- Lord Acton

Goethe

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
- Goethe

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Desiderius Erasmus

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
- Desiderius Erasmus

Ambrose Bierce

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
- Ambrose Bierce

James Baldwin

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
- James Baldwin

Tao Te Ching

The Master accepts things as they are, and out of compassion avoids extravagance, excess and the extremes.
- Tao Te Ching

Robert Orben

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
- Robert Orben

John F. Kennedy

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
- John F. Kennedy

Plato

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
- Plato

Buddha

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
- Buddha

Confucius

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
- Confucius

George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
- George Bernard Shaw

Woody Allen

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
- Woody Allen

Albert Einstein

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
- Albert Einstein

Oscar Wilde

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

Winston Churchill

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
- Winston Churchill

Mark Twain

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
- Mark Twain