Tao Te Ching

Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.
- Tao Te Ching

Douglas Adams

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
- Douglas Adams

Cadman

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
- Cadman

Lin Yutang

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”
- Lin Yutang

Glaser and Way

"The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it."
- Glaser and Way

Charles Lamb

"Lawyers, I suppose, were children once."
- Charles Lamb

Alfred North Whitehead

"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."
- Alfred North Whitehead

Thomas Carlyle

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
- Thomas Carlyle

Lyndon B. Johnson

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

Francis Bradley

His mind is open; yes, it is so open that nothing is retained; ideas simply pass through him.
- Attributed to Francis Bradley

Libbie Fudim

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.
- Libbie Fudim

Thomas Edison

Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
- Thomas Edison

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

"What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public."
- Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Richard M. Nixon

"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too."
- Richard M. Nixon

Dr. Seuss

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)

Herbert George Wells

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
- Herbert George Wells

Dalai Lama

When we bend ourselves to material desires – a new car, a new home, for instance – we increase their intensity and their number. Our wishes increase and we become less and less satisfied, and more and more incapable of satisfying them.
- Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual and political leader, Voices from the Heart

Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness is something rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Tallulah Bankhead

They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
- Tallulah Bankhead

Woody Allen

"As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on."
- Woody Allen

H. L. Mencken

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
- H. L. Mencken

Buddha

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
- Buddha

Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
- Albert Schweitzer - The Philosophy of Civilization

Niccolo Machiavelli

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Winston Churchill

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill

Jim Abbot

People will tell you that I overcame obstacles. Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away.
- Jim Abbot

Plato

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
- Plato

J.B. Priestly

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
- J.B. Priestly

Ambrose Bierce

Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
- Ambrose Bierce

Mark Twain

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
- Mark Twain