Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Eva Le Gallienne

Innovators are inevitably controversial.
- Eva Le Gallienne

Winston Churchill

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
- Winston Churchill

Jean Paul

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.
- Jean Paul

Ambrose Bierce

Politeness -- The most acceptable hypocrisy.
- Ambrose Bierce

James Monroe

National honor is a national property of the highest value.
- James Monroe

Thomas Edison

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.
- Thomas Edison

Hannah Arendt

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- Hannah Arendt

Ellen Goodman

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."
- Ellen Goodman

Edgar Allan Poe

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Sir William Osler

"The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals."
- Sir William Osler

Aesop

"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit."
- Aesop

Gilda Radner

"I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."
- Gilda Radner

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Buddha

Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal.
- Buddha

Oscar Wilde

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.- Oscar Wilde

Karl Marx

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
- Karl Marx

C. S. Lewis

Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other.
- C. S. Lewis

William Harding

Ambition is a commendable attribute without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
- William Harding

Tao Te Ching

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
- Tao Te Ching

Wendy Liebman

I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.
- Wendy Liebman

Albert Einstein

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

It's such a wonderful feeling to watch a child discover that reading is a marvelous adventure rather than a chore.
- Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Og Mandingo

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
- Og Mandingo

Marcel Proust

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
- Marcel Proust

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Dr. Seuss

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”
- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)

Plato

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
- Plato

Steven Wright

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.
- Steven Wright

Mark Twain

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
- Mark Twain