Alan Coren

“Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.”
- Alan Coren (1938 - 2007)

Immanuel Kant

The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.
- Immanuel Kant

Yogi Berra

Steve McQueen looks good in this movie. He must have made it before he died.
- Yogi Berra

Clarence Darrow

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
- Clarence Darrow

James Earl Jones

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
- James Earl Jones

Edgar Quinet

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.
- Edgar Quinet

Sir Frederick G. Banting

"No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit."
- Sir Frederick G. Banting

T. S. Eliot

"Humor is also a way of saying something serious."
- T. S. Eliot

Will Rogers

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh."
- Will Rogers

Thomas Edison

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
- Thomas Edison

Chuang-Tzu

Those who are contented and at ease with the moment, those who live in accord with the course of Nature, cannot be affected by sorrow or joy. That’s what the ancients called release from bondage.
- Chuang-Tzu, Taoist thinker, century III or II b. C., Book of Chuang-Tzu

Richard Baker

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
- Richard Baker

Jim Cathcart

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
- Jim Cathcart

Freya Stark

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”
- Freya Stark

William C. Bagley

When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery' When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings?
- William C. Bagley

Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein

Terry Pratchett

“He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at. ”
- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods (1948 -)

Barbara Kingsolver

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
- Barbara Kingsolver

Michel de Montaigne

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
- Michel de Montaigne

John Zimmerman

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.
- John Zimmerman

Schola Salern

If you need medical advice, let these three things be your physicians; a cheerful mind, relaxation from business, and a moderate diet.
- Schola Salern

C. S. Lewis

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
- C. S. Lewis

H. L. Mencken

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
- H. L. Mencken

Plato

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
- Plato

Mikhail Gorbachev

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
- Mikhail Gorbachev

Buddha

We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all. - Buddha

Joe Paterno

You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
- Joe Paterno

Richard Feynman

"Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?"
- Richard Feynman

Eric Hoffer

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
- Eric Hoffer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mark Twain

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
- Mark Twain