George Burns

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns

Buddha

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
- Buddha

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Benjamin Disraeli

Life is too short to be small.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Albert Einstein

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
- Albert Einstein

C. S. Lewis

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
- C. S. Lewis

Dave Barry

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
- Dave Barry

Clive Barnes

“Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. ”
- Clive Barnes (1927 - 2007)

Thomas Edison

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
- Thomas Edison

Tacitus

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
- Tacitus

Saint Augustine

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
- Saint Augustine

Audrey Hepburn

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
- Audrey Hepburn

Raymond Chandler

"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency."
- Raymond Chandler

Benjamin Stolberg

"An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy."
- Benjamin Stolberg

Eric Hoffer

"It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living."
- Eric Hoffer

Kurt Vonnegut

"There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."
- Kurt Vonnegut

Oscar Wilde

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
- Oscar Wilde

Confucius

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
- Confucius

Plato

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
- Plato

Steven Wright

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.
- Steven Wright

Harry Millner

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view.
- Harry Millner

Swedish Proverb

“Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.”
- Swedish Proverb

Bertrand Russell

"A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation."
- Bertrand Russell

Warren Buffett

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
- Warren Buffett

Wilson Mizner

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something."
- Wilson Mizner

Edgard Varese

"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."
- Edgard Varese

John Stuart Mill

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.
- John Stuart Mill

James Madison

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
- James Madison

Tao Te Ching

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
- Tao Te Ching

Theodore Roethke

Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
- Theodore Roethke

George Carlin

What year did Jesus think it was?
- George Carlin

Mark Twain

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
- Mark Twain