Dorothy L. Sayers

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
- Dorothy L. Sayers

Winston Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill

Aristotle

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
- Aristotle

Sigmund Freud

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
- Sigmund Freud

Ralph Bus

Children really brighten up a household - they never turn the lights off.
- Ralph Bus

William J Clinton

There is nothing wrong in America that can't be fixed with what is right in America.
- William J Clinton

Edward R. Murrow

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow

Israel Zangwill

“You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.”
- Israel Zangwill (1864 - 1926)

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

John Jay Chapman

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.
- John Jay Chapman

Chuck Palahniuk

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Dont be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Ambrose Bierce

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
- Ambrose Bierce

Josh Billings

"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."
- Josh Billings

Calvin Trillin

"In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses."
- Calvin Trillin

John Calvin Coolidge

I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.
- John Calvin Coolidge

Dorothy Parker

"Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves."
- Dorothy Parker

Bill Moyers

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
- Bill Moyers

Katherine Barchetti

Make a customer, not a sale.
- Katherine Barchetti

Stanisław Leszczyński

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
- Stanisław Leszczyński

Katharine Whitehorn

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.
- Katharine Whitehorn

Phaedrus

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
- Phaedrus

Confucius

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
- Confucius

Japanese proverb

The poorest man is not without a cent, but without a dream.
- Japanese proverb

John Adams

“In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.”- John Adams (1735- 1826)

George Bernard Shaw

Hell is full of musical amateurs.
- George Bernard Shaw

Johnny Carson

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
- Johnny Carson

Groucho Marx

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.- Groucho Marx

Stephen Grover Cleveland

A man is known by the company he keeps, and also by the company from which he is kept out.
- Stephen Grover Cleveland

Navajo legend

“In the skin of our fingers we can see the trail of the wind; it shows us where the wind blew when our ancestors were created.”- Navajo legend

Henry Ford

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
- Henry Ford

Mark Twain

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.
- Mark Twain