C. S. Lewis

[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.
- C. S. Lewis

Ludwig Binswanger

Freud expressed the opinion—not quite in earnest, though, it seeemed to me—that philosophy was the most decent form of sublimation of repressed sexuality, nothing more. In response I put the question, 'What then is science, particularly psychoanalytic psychology?' Whereup on he, visible a bit surprised, answered evasively: 'At least psychology has a social purpose.'
- Ludwig Binswanger

Victor Borge

Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year.
- Victor Borge

Joseph Joubert

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
- Joseph Joubert

Iron Eagle

God doesn't give people talents that he doesn't want people to use.
- Iron Eagle

Laurence Sterne

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
- Laurence Sterne

Terry Pratchett

“What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?”
- Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (1948 -)

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Betty Grable

I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them.
- Betty Grable

Alex Levine

Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
- Alex Levine

Abraham Lincoln

“Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Harold Taylor

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
- Harold Taylor

Paul Theroux

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.”
- Paul Theroux

Robert Benchley

"As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did."
- Robert Benchley

Frank Moore Colby

"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
- Frank Moore Colby

Diogenes the Cynic

"Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad."
- Diogenes the Cynic

Philip G. Hamerton

"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"
- Philip G. Hamerton

Kathe Kloowitz

I do not want to die...until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
- Kathe Kloowitz

David Letterman

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
- David Letterman

Francois Rabelais

He has 63 ways of getting money, the most common and most honorable ones being stealing, thieving, and robbing.
- Francois Rabelais

Dorothy Parker

There's a ... distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
- Dorothy Parker

Nora Ephron

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.
- Nora Ephron

Grace Allen

A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by those things - maybe he's just trying to be like his daddy.
- Grace Allen

Mary Kay Ash

"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
- Mary Kay Ash

Ambrose Bierce

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
- Ambrose Bierce

Plato

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
- Plato

Mahatma Gandhi

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

Sir Winston Churchill

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
- Sir Winston Churchill

David Herbert Lawrence

I shall always be a priest of love.
- David Herbert Lawrence

Mark Twain

Be good and you will be lonesome.
- Mark Twain