Valerie Solanis

To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.
- Valerie Solanis

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Charles Dudley Warner

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
- Charles Dudley Warner

Warren Bennis

"A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless ... someone's got to make a wake up call."
- Warren Bennis

Thomas Edison

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
- Thomas Edison

Albert Einstein

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
- Albert Einstein

Benjamin Disraeli

Life is too short to be small.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Oscar Wilde

Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others
- Oscar Wilde

Benjamin Franklin

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
- Benjamin Franklin

Helen Rowland

To a woman the first kiss is just the end of the beginning but to a man it is the beginning of the end.
- Helen Rowland

Thomas Fuller

“If an ass goes traveling, he will not come home a horse.”
- Thomas Fuller

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
- Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is a series of collisions with the future, it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Pearl S. Buck

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
- Pearl S. Buck

William Shakespeare

“He hath eaten me out of house and home.”
- William Shakespeare, King Henry IV Part I (1564-1616)

Aeschylus

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
- Aeschylus

Will Durant

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant

Sacha Guitry

"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."
- Sacha Guitry

Thomas Paine

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.
- Thomas Paine

Wayne Dyer

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you"
- Wayne Dyer

Andy Warhol

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he for some reason thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
- Andy Warhol

George Carlin

I think I am, therefore, I am. I think.
- George Carlin

Sarah Bernhardt

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
- Sarah Bernhardt

Bertolt Brecht

What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?
- Bertolt Brecht

Anonymous

“Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.”
- Anonymous

Ellen DeGeneres

"Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off."
- Ellen DeGeneres

Buddhist Quote

We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.
- Buddhist Quote

J. K. Gressett

God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials.
- J. K. Gressett

Chinese Proverb

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
- Chinese Proverb

John Greenleaf Whittier

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.
- John Greenleaf Whittier

Mark Twain

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
- Mark Twain