Stephen Leacock

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
- Stephen Leacock

William Shakespeare

“I am a man more sinned against than sinning.”- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1564-1616)

Kin Hubbard

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
- Kin Hubbard

James Whistler

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
- James Whistler

Jim Bishop

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.
- Jim Bishop

Henry David Thoreau

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.
- Henry David Thoreau, "Solitude," Walden, 1854

Dame Edna Everage

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.
- Dame Edna Everage

Jeanette Winterson

What you risk reveals what you value.- Jeanette Winterson

Malaclypse the Younger

"'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds."
- Malaclypse the Younger

Albert Einstein

"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
- Albert Einstein

Bill Cosby

"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague."
- Bill Cosby

Frank Lloyd Wright

"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

John Maynard Keynes

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
- John Maynard Keynes

W. Clement Stone

If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
- W. Clement Stone

John F. Kennedy

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
- John F. Kennedy

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eric Butterworth

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
- Eric Butterworth

George Washington

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
- George Washington

Kate Douglas Wiggin

Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever, fresh and radiant possibility.
- Kate Douglas Wiggin

George Bernard Shaw

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
- George Bernard Shaw

Douglas Adams

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

Kurt Vonnegut

“Unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.”
- Kurt Vonnegut

Christopher P. Cranch

We are spirits clad in veils.
- Christopher P. Cranch

Lisa Scully-O'Grady

Through you I learned how great life can be, how the simple things in life are really the most important and how you treat other people is really all that matters.- Lisa Scully-O'Grady

Joe Baca

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.
- Joe Baca

Patrick Murray

I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
- Patrick Murray

Charles M. Schulz

“That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another...”- Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)

George Soros

If investing is entertaining, if you're having fun, you're probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
- George Soros

Mark Twain

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.
- Mark Twain