Wayne Gretzky

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
- Wayne Gretzky

Arnold Palmer

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
- Arnold Palmer

William Blake

You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough.
- William Blake

Abraham Lincoln

“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Zachery Taylor

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
- Zachery Taylor

Dorothy L. Sayers

The library, with its tall bays and overhanging gallery, looked east and was already rather dark. Harriet found it restful.
- Dorothy L. Sayers

Tiger Woods

My dad has always taught me these words, care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.
- Tiger Woods

Socrates

He who is not contented with what he has, will not be contented with what he doesn't have.
- Socrates

Jean-Paul Sartre

Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

Arthur Miller

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
- Arthur Miller

Claudia Wallis

They are babies in waiting, life on ice.
- Claudia Wallis

George Eliot

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
- George Eliot

Bart Simpson

Well in my family, grades aren't important. It's what you learn that counts.
- Bart Simpson

Susan Sontag

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
- Susan Sontag

Audrey Hepburn

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.
- Audrey Hepburn

Albert Low

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.
- Albert Low

Laurence J. Peter

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
- Laurence J. Peter

Helen Keller

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
- Helen Keller

Alfred Adler

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
- Alfred Adler

Terry Pratchett

“Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.”- Terry Pratchett (1948 -)

Richard Garriott

Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites.
- Richard Garriott

Voltaire

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
- Voltaire

Margaret Thatcher

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
- Margaret Thatcher

Mignon McLaughlin

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Oscar Wilde

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde

Jim Wooden

Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.
- Jim Wooden

Anonymous

Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents?
- Anonymous

Charles Baudelaire

"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."
- Charles Baudelaire

Norman Vincent Peale

It's always too early to quit.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Mark Twain

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain