C. S. Lewis

At this very moment you and I are either committing [selfishness], or about to commit it, or repenting it.
- C. S. Lewis

Albert Schweitzer

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.
- Albert Schweitzer

H. L. Mencken

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
- H. L. Mencken

Tao Te Ching

He who rushes ahead doesn't go far.
- Tao Te Ching

Plato

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
- Plato

Yogi Berra

Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself. (After being told he looked cool.)
- Yogi Berra

Johann von Goethe

“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
- Johann von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

John Dryden

Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
- John Dryden

Albert Einstein

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
 - Albert Einstein

Sir Francis Bacon

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties."
- Sir Francis Bacon

Paul Fussell

"I find nothing more depressing than optimism."
- Paul Fussell

Allan K. Chalmers

“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”- Allan K. Chalmers (1759 - 1834)

Nikola Tesla

"The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."
- Nikola Tesla

Jeph Jacque

"There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option."   
- Jeph Jacque

Oscar Wilde

Biography lends to death a new terror.
- Oscar Wilde

Anais Nin

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

A. Frank Willis

I used to call her Darling, but now I call her collect.
- A. Frank Willis

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

"Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk."
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Bart Simpson

I didn't do it, no one saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!- Bart Simpson

Ernie Kovacs

Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done." - Ernie Kovacs

Gore Vidal

“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.”
- Gore Vidal (1925 -)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation."
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Marshall Mcluhan

The modern little red riding hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objections to being eaten by the wolf.
- Marshall Mcluhan

Adlai Stevenson

She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
- Adlai Stevenson

Thomas Szasz

“When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.”
- Thomas Szasz (1920 -)

Mae West

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
- Mae West

Henri Matisse

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
- Henri Matisse

Mark Twain

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.
- Mark Twain