Plato

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
- Plato

Lisa Kudrow

"I think it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice, if it doesn't lead to a crime."
- Lisa Kudrow

Kevin Rose

"I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better."
- Kevin Rose

J.B. Priestly

 I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
- J.B. Priestly

Sappho

Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
- Sappho

Thomas Fuller

The more wit the less courage.
- Thomas Fuller

Mal Pancoast

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.
- Mal Pancoast

Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
- Oscar Wilde

Mohammed

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.”
- Mohammed

Yogi Berra

You can see a lot by just looking.
- Yogi Berra

Henry Ward Beecher

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. - Henry Ward Beecher

Jane Austen

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1775 - 1817)

The Talmud

Never expose yourself unnecessarily to danger; a miracle may not save you...and if it does, it will be deducted from your share of luck or merit.
- The Talmud

Terry Bradshaw

Whats the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback, He loses his confidence.
- Terry Bradshaw

Grace Allen

Let the others make statues of Apollo and Mercury and Hercules... You're the man I want to chisel.
- Grace Allen

James Carr

"I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly."
- James Carr

William Shakespeare

"Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor."
- William Shakespeare

Arthur Ashe

There is a syndrome in sports called paralysis by analysis.
- Arthur Ashe

Honore de Balzac

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
- Honore de Balzac

Dale Carnegie

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
- Dale Carnegie

Chungliang Al Huang

Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.
- Chungliang Al Huang

Jon Campbell

It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.
- Jon Campbell

Leonid S. Sukhorukov

To lead others, embody their ideals!
- Leonid S. Sukhorukov

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Colette

“The earth belongs to anyone who stops for a moment, gazes and goes on his way.”
- Colette

Arabic Proverb

Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.
- Arabic Proverb

Isaac Asimov

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”- Isaac Asimov, as Salvador Hardin, Foundation (1920 - 1992)

Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill

Mark Twain

Reflection is the beginning of reform. There can be no reform without reflection. If you don't reflect when you commit a crime then that crime is of no use. It might just as well have been committed by someone else.
- Mark Twain