Lady Violet Bonham Carter

"Outer space is no place for a person of breeding."
- Lady Violet Bonham Carter

Leonard Cohen

The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
- Leonard Cohen

Jane Austen

There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
- Jane Austen

Michel de Montaigne

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
- Michel de Montaigne

Will Rogers

"We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it."
- Will Rogers

Willa Cather

"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."
- Willa Cather

George Carlin

"It's never just a game when you're winning."
- George Carlin

Pietro Aretino

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
- Pietro Aretino

William Hazlitt

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
- William Hazlitt

Theodore Roosevelt

The American people abhor a vacuum.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Wayne Dyer

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
- Wayne Dyer

Sholem Asch

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
- Sholem Asch

Tao Te Ching

True words aren't eloquent, eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point, men who need to prove their point aren't wise.
- Tao Te Ching

Buddha

All tremble at punishment. Life is dear to all. Put yourself in the place of others; kill none nor have another killed.
- Buddha

Plato

There is no such thing as a lover's oath.
- Plato

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I love you, what does that matter to you!
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Albert Einstein

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
- Albert Einstein

Dennis Peer

One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.
- Dennis Peer

Chinese Proverb

Do not anxiously hope for what is not yet to come; do not vainly regret what is already past.
- Chinese Proverb

Agatha Christie

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
- Agatha Christie

Robert Strauss

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired you quit when the gorilla is tired.
- Robert Strauss

Ambrose Bierce

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
- Ambrose Bierce

Terry Pratchett

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life. ”- Terry Pratchett (1948 -)

Aleister Crowley

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
- Aleister Crowley

S. M. Neel

“Curiosity is the best learning tool one can possess.”
- S. M. Neel

Albert Camus

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.- Albert Camus

Henry David Thoreau

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Sigmund Freud

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
- Sigmund Freud

William Shakespeare

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1564-1616)

Leonard Louis Levinson

"A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them."
- Leonard Louis Levinson

Mark Twain

There is nothing comparable to the endurance of a woman. In military life she would tire out an army of men, either in camp or on the march.
- Mark Twain