Frank Lloyd Wright

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Abraham Lincoln

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
- Abraham Lincoln

Gustave Flaubert

“Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that’s the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.”
- Gustave Flaubert

Margaret Thatcher

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
- Margaret Thatcher

William Shakespeare

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.”
- William Shakespeare, As You Like It (1564-1616)

Elizabeth Aston

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.
- Elizabeth Aston

Anais Nin

People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin

Grace Allen

Let the others make statues of Apollo and Mercury and Hercules... You're the man I want to chisel.
- Grace Allen

Henry David Thoreau

“Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.”
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Brian Graham

Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies.
- Brian Graham

Alfred A. Montapert

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
- Alfred A. Montapert

Damon Runyon

“One of these days in your travels a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in you ear. But son, do not bet this man, for sure as you stand there, you are going to wind up with an earful of cider.”
- Damon Runyon

John Adams

The happiness of society is the end of government.
- John Adams

Plato

No human thing is of serious importance.
- Plato

Fran Lebowitz

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
- Fran Lebowitz

Thomas Edison

There's a way to do it better - find it.
- Thomas Edison

Bill Watterson

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
- Bill Watterson

Albert Einstein

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
- Albert Einstein

Rita Mae Brown

"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."
- Rita Mae Brown

H. L. Mencken

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
- H. L. Mencken

Christina Baldwin

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
- Christina Baldwin

Bishop John Wilkins

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.
- Bishop John Wilkins

Jerry Seinfeld

“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.”
- Jerry Seinfeld

Bertrand Russell

"It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go."
- Bertrand Russell

Muhammad Ali

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
- Muhammad Ali

Gore Vidal

“I have found that there is no attitude so bizarre that one will not encounter it sooner or later if one travels far enough.”
- Gore Vidal

P D James

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
- P D James

Lao Tzu

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.
- Lao Tzu

Oscar Wilde

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde

Mark Twain

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press.
- Mark Twain