Thomas Edison

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose...
- Thomas Edison

Albert Einstein

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
- Albert Einstein

Confucius

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
- Confucius

Billy Graham

Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam's and Eve's problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.
- Billy Graham

Napoleon

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
- Napoleon

Chuck Noll

Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it.
- Chuck Noll - ex Pittsburgh Steelers Coach

James Bond

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.”
- James Bond, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Ambrose Bierce

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
- Ambrose Bierce

Plato

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
- Plato

Goethe

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
- Goethe

Lester R. Bittel

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.
- Lester R. Bittel - The Nine Master Keys of Management

H. L. Mencken

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
- H. L. Mencken

Bob Richards

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
- Bob Richards, Pole Vaulter

Francis Bacon

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
- Francis Bacon

Dave Barry

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.
- Dave Barry

Jean-Baptiste Andre Godin

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.
- Jean-Baptiste Andre Godin

Henry David Thoreau

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
- Henry David Thoreau

Napoleon Hill

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
- Napoleon Hill

James Baldwin

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
- James Baldwin

Edward de Bono

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
- Edward de Bono

Jane Austen

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
- Jane Austen

Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Moonlight is sculpture, sunlight is painting. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)

Christina Rossetti

Love shall be our token, love be yours and love be mine.
- Christina Rossetti

Phyllis Diller

I'm looking for a perfume to overpower men. I'm sick of karate.
- Phyllis Diller

Nietzsche

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
- Nietzsche

Ben Hecht

"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."
- Ben Hecht

James F. Byrnes

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."
- James F. Byrnes

Iris Murdoch

"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
- Iris Murdoch

Terry Pratchett

“What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?”
- Terry Pratchett, Pyramids (1948 -)

Harold R McAlindon

The world leaders in innovation and creativity will also be world leaders in everything else.
- Harold R McAlindon

Mark Twain

Dialogue is the yeast that lightens the bread; & should be paid for at double rate -- whereas by the word-system it counts the same as the dough.
- Mark Twain