Sir Walter Scott

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above, For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
- Sir Walter Scott

Leonardo da Vinci

“Two weaknesses leaning together create a strength. Therefore the half of the world leaning against the other half becomes firm.”- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

Lou Holtz

"Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had
a crisis that didn't make me stronger."
- Lou Holtz

James Russell Lowell

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.
- James Russell Lowell

Bette Midler

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?
- Bette Midler

Bob Dylan

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
- Bob Dylan

Carlo Goldoni

“A wise traveler never despises his own country.”
- Carlo Goldoni

Harold Taylor

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
- Harold Taylor

Henri Frédéric Amiel

All appears to change when we change.
- Henri Frédéric Amiel

Ambrose Bierce

Ghost: The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
- Ambrose Bierce

George Washington

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
- George Washington

C. S. Lewis

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy.
- C. S. Lewis

Tao Te Ching

If you want to be given everything, give everything up.
- Tao Te Ching

Francis Bacon

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
- Francis Bacon

Greg Garcia

"That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly."
- Greg Garcia

Bertrand Russell

“Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.”- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Doris Egan

"You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, you're psychotic."
- Doris Egan

Upton Sinclair

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it."
- Upton Sinclair

Elbert Hubbard

The man who has no more problems to solve, is out of the game.
- Elbert Hubbard

Thomas H. Huxley

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
- Thomas H. Huxley

Pablo Casals

To retire is to die.
- Pablo Casals

Percy Ross

He who gives while he lives, get to know where it goes.
- Percy Ross

Thomas Carlyle

Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!
- Thomas Carlyle

Phyllis Diller

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
- Phyllis Diller

George Washington Carver

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver

Samuel Johnson

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
- Samuel Johnson

Edmund Burke

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
- Edmund Burke

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

George Bernard Shaw

“Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.”
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

George Burns

At my age flowers scare me.
- George Burns

Mark Twain

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain