Robert Goddard

"Every vision is a joke until the first person accomplishes it."
- Robert Goddard

John A. Wheeler

"If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day."
- John A. Wheeler

Sidney J. Harris

"The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it."
- Sidney J. Harris

Malcolm Forbes

"Men who never get carried away should be."
- Malcolm Forbes

William Somerset Maugham

Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.
- William Somerset Maugham

Chris Rock

Yeah, I love being famous. It's almost like being white, y'know?
- Chris Rock

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Benjamin Disraeli

Life is too short to be small.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Jean Anouilh

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.
- Jean Anouilh

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Peter Lynch

Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
- Peter Lynch

Bertrand Russel

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
- Bertrand Russel

Mathew Arnold

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming.
- Mathew Arnold

Pat Riley

Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing.
- Pat Riley

Bill Bryson

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.
- Bill Bryson

Rene Magritte

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
- Rene Magritte

Yogi Berra

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase.
- Yogi Berra

Benjamin Franklin

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
- Benjamin Franklin

Albert Einstein

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with out frail and feeble minds.”- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Johannes Kepler

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.
- Johannes Kepler

Cherokee Expression

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
- Cherokee Expression

Scott Adams

Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company.
- Scott Adams

John B. Gough

What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world.- John B. Gough

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Shmuel Y. Agnon

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
- Shmuel Y. Agnon

Miss Piggy

Only time can heal your broken heart just as only time can heal his arms and legs.
- Miss Piggy

William Shakespeare

“This is the short and the long of it.”- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. (1564-1616)

Douglas Adams

“It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase‘as pretty as an airport’ appear.”
- Douglas Adams

Henry David Thoreau

Every child begins the world again.
- Henry David Thoreau

George Bernard Shaw

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

Mark Twain

It isn't the sum you get, it's how much you can buy with it, that's the important thing; and it's that that tells whether your wages are high in fact or only high in name.
- Mark Twain