Lou Brock

Show me a guy whos afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.- Lou Brock

Mahatma Gandhi

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Edith Hamilton

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.- Edith Hamilton

Richard Lewis

"I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back."
- Richard Lewis

Denis Diderot

"There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it."
- Denis Diderot

William Shakespeare

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1564-1616)

Steve Albini

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
- Steve Albini

John Wesley

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.- John Wesley

Anonymous

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease while his legs increase.
- Anonymous

W. Winwood Reade

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
- W. Winwood Reade

Vita Sackville-West

“Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.”
- Vita Sackville-West

Bette Davis

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.
- Bette Davis

Stephen Leacock

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Stephen Leacock

George Santayana

"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood."
- George Santayana

Robert Byrne

"Partying is such sweet sorrow."
- Robert Byrne

Doug Larson

"What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living."
- Doug Larson

Ted Morgan

"Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it."
- Ted Morgan

Dalai Lama

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Dalai Lama

Thomas Edison

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
- Thomas Edison

Akhenaton

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
- Akhenaton

Thomas Carlyle

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
- Thomas Carlyle

Jewish Proverb

Locks keep out only the honest.
- Jewish Proverb

Plato

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.
- Plato

Buckminster Fuller

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
- Buckminster Fuller

Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share riches but to reveal him his own.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Emo Philips

People always ask me, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi.
- Emo Philips

Martin Luther King

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King

Winston Churchill

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
- Winston Churchill

Mark Twain

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and ever eatable, drinkable and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
- Mark Twain