Mae West

When women go wrong, men go right after them.
- Mae West

Tom Stoppard

"We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."
- Tom Stoppard

Brendan Francis

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
- Brendan Francis

Samuel Johnson

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
- Samuel Johnson

Sir Winston Churchill

They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Thucydides

History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
- Thucydides

Gilbert K. Chesterton

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Paul Sweeney

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
- Paul Sweeney

Ambrose Bierce

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
- Ambrose Bierce

Nils Kjær

“He who strays discovers new paths.”
- Nils Kjær

George Best

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol and it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.
- George Best

Jesse Jackson

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.- Jesse Jackson

Minna Antrim

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
- Minna Antrim

Antonio Porchia

When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.
- Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Garrison Keillor

God writes a lot of comedy, the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
- Garrison Keillor

Hunter S. Thompson

“If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. ”
- Hunter S. Thompson (1937 - 2005)

George Bernard Shaw

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw

Sir Isaac Newton

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man has as good be engaged in law suits as have to do with her.
- Sir Isaac Newton

W.C. Fields

Charlie McCarthy: "Say, Mr. Fields, I read in the paper where you consumed two quarts of liquor a day. What would your father think about that?" WC: "He'd think I was a sissy."
- W.C. Fields

Charles Dickens

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
- Charles Dickens

EB White

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
- EB White

Publilius Syrus

Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.- Publilius Syrus

Henry Ford

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
- Henry Ford

Camille Paglia

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
- Camille Paglia

Tao Te Ching

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
- Tao Te Ching

Confucius

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
- Confucius

Greg Anderson

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
- Greg Anderson

Johnny Carson

Never use a big word when a little filthy one will do.
- Johnny Carson

Albert Einstein

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
- Albert Einstein

William Shakespeare

“He hath eaten me out of house and home.”- William Shakespeare, King Henry IV Part I (1564-1616)

Mark Twain

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.
- Mark Twain