Seneca

Disease is not of the body but of the place.
- Seneca

Thomas Edison

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
- Thomas Edison

Rita Mae Brown

Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.
- Rita Mae Brown

Ovid

It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
- Ovid

Carl Sagan

The universe is a pretty big space. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So, if it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space, right?
- Carl Sagan

Bishop John Wilkins

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

Andrew W. Mathis

"It is bad luck to be superstitious."
- Andrew W. Mathis

Berkeley Rice

Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't see.
- Berkeley Rice

Peter Ustinov

"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."
- Peter Ustinov

Harry Shearer

"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?"
- Harry Shearer

William Shakespeare

“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe.”
- William Shakespeare, King Richard III (1564-1616)

Henry Ford

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1974)

Arthur C. Clarke

"It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value."
- Arthur C. Clarke

Henry Kissinger

"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."
- Henry Kissinger

Blaise Pascal

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction."
- Blaise Pascal

Jeph Jacques

"If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem."
- Jeph Jacques

Galileo Galilei

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
- Galileo Galilei

Confucius

When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.
- Confucius

Dorothea Brande

"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail."
- Dorothea Brande

Jami

To display his eternal attributes in their inexhaustible variety, the Lord made the green fields of time and space.
- Jami

Lily Tomlin

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.
- Lily Tomlin

Jack Handey

I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex.
- Jack Handey

Bertrand Russell

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

Plato

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
- Plato

H. L. Mencken

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
- H. L. Mencken

Terry Pratchett

“Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think. ”
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (1948 -)

Jean Houston

Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with the hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so you must attend to and nourish the garden of your becoming.
- Jean Houston

George Bernard Shaw

Hell is full of musical amateurs.
- George Bernard Shaw

Kin Hubbard

Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.
- Kin Hubbard

Mark Twain

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain