Lewis Carroll

Speak roughly to your little boy, and beat him when he sneezes: he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases.
- Lewis Carroll

Napoleon

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon

Samuel Johnson

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
- Samuel Johnson

Eleanor Roosevelt

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes ... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Ed Howe

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
- Ed Howe

Rita Rudner

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.
- Rita Rudner

John Dewey

“If it is better to travel than to arrive, it is because traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.”
- John Dewey

David Letterman

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
- David Letterman

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Dalai Lama

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Dalai Lama

William Shakespeare

“But, for my own part, it was Greek to me.”
- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (1564-1616)

Joseph Addison

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
- Joseph Addison

Robert Frost

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."
- Robert Frost

Albert Einstein

“He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable an ignorable war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Thomas Szasz

"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."
- Thomas Szasz

Mario Andretti

"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough"
- Mario Andretti

Malcolm S Forbes

The best vision is insight.
- Malcolm S Forbes

David Hockney

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
- David Hockney

J. G. Ballard

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!
- J. G. Ballard

Emilie Cady

Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.
- Emilie Cady

Barbara Kingsolver

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
- Barbara Kingsolver

Robert Ingersoll

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
- Robert Ingersoll

Anonymous

Forget the Joneses... I can't keep up with the Simpsons.
- Anonymous

Daniel J. Boorstin

“The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes“sightseeing.””
- Daniel J. Boorstin

Thomas Jefferson

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

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

Buddhist Quote

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
- Buddhist Quote

Michel de Montaigne

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.
- Michel de Montaigne

Henry David Thoreau

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

Mark Twain

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.
- Mark Twain