George Washington Carver

“To those who have not yet learned the secret of true happiness, begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.”
- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

Jean Paul Getty

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
- Jean Paul Getty

Phillip Lopate

"The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'."
- Phillip Lopate

John Wanamaker

"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half."
- John Wanamaker

C. S. Lewis

Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
- C. S. Lewis

John Dryden

"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."
- John Dryden

Wesley Bates

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.
- Wesley Bates

Peter F. Drucker

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
- Peter F. Drucker

Oscar Wilde

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde

Albert Einstein

"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
- Albert Einstein

Howard Aiken

“Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.”
- Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973)

Will Rogers

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers

H. L. Mencken

All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling. - H. L. Mencken

Ambrose Bierce

POLITICS, n. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
- Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary

John Wayne

"A horse is a horse,it ain't make a difference what color it is."
- John Wayne

Thomas Edison

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
- Thomas Edison

Mickey Rooney

I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me.
- Mickey Rooney

Chuck Palahniuk

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Dont be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.
- Chuck Palahniuk

A. A. Milne

"If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name."
- A. A. Milne

Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

"If you don't know to the second when a drunk's gonna vomit on you, you don't survive as a strip club bouncer."
- Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz

Rita Rudner

"Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before."
- Rita Rudner

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Only sick music makes money today."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Japanese proverb

The poorest man is not without a cent, but without a dream.
- Japanese proverb

Orson Welles

“There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.”
- Orson Welles

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)

Jane Austen

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
- Jane Austen

Jesus Christ

Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone.
- Jesus Christ

Buddha

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.
- Buddha

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

The more things change, the more they remain the same.
- Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

Dame Edna Everage

To an overweight woman: I love that fabric, you were lucky to find so much of it.
- Dame Edna Everage

Thomas Edison

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
- Thomas Edison

Mark Twain

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
- Mark Twain