Frank Deford

"I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed."
- Frank Deford

Bill Watterson

“Oops, I always forget that the purpose of competition is to divide people into winners and losers.”
- Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes) (1958 - )

Fran Lebowitz

"If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail."
- Fran Lebowitz

Scott Adams

"Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there."
- Scott Adams

Carl Sagan

We are one species. We are starstuff.
- Carl Sagan

Terry Pratchett

“Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...”
- Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay (1948 -)

H. Robert Schuller

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.
- H. Robert Schuller

Earl Warren

I always turn to the sports page first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures.
- Earl Warren

James Madison

"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens
of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with
arms."
- James Madison

Bradley's Bromide

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in."
- Bradley's Bromide

Robert Frost

"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."
- Robert Frost

Johann von Goethe

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
- Johann von Goethe

Jean Kerr

"I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on."
- Jean Kerr

Charles W. Chesnutt

Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.
- Charles W.  Chesnutt

Edith Sitwell

"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."
- Edith Sitwell

Confucius

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.
- Confucius

Schumann

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts,such is the duty of the artist.
- Schumann

Dalai Lama

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
- Dalai Lama

Eric Hoffer

The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
- Eric Hoffer

Niccolo Machiavelli

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

C. S. Lewis

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.
- C. S. Lewis

H. L. Mencken

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
- H. L. Mencken

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Buddha

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. - Buddha

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pictures must not be too picturesque.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tao Te Ching

See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self, then you can care for all things.
- Tao Te Ching

Michael Jordan

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
- Michael Jordan

Thomas Edison

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
- Thomas Edison

Lee Iacocca

If you want to make good use of your time, youve got to know what’s most important and then give it all youve got.
- Lee Iacocca

Mark Twain

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
- Mark Twain