David Broder

Anyone that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
- David Broder

Socrates

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
- Socrates

Buddha

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.
- Buddha

Anonymous

Corruption is the nightmare that keeps democracy a dream.
- Anonymous

Marilyn Monroe

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
- Marilyn Monroe

Ellen DeGeneres

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
- Ellen DeGeneres

Publilius Syrus

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.
- Publilius Syrus

Andre Gide

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
- Andre Gide

Mills E. Godwin

“Men of faith know that throughout history the crimes committed in liberty's name have been exceeded only by those committed in God's name.”
- Mills E. Godwin (1914 - 1999)

William Shakespeare

“A man can die but once.”
- William Shakespeare, King Henry IV Part I (1564-1616)

P. J. O'Rourke

"There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause."
- P. J. O'Rourke

Marshall McLuhan

"There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening."
- Marshall McLuhan

George Eliot

"We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."
- George Eliot

Steve Albini

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
- Steve Albini

Eleanor Roosevelt

The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Robert Browning

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
- Robert Browning

Henry James

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
- Henry James

Doug Horton

There is no bad in good.
- Doug Horton

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Thomas Edison

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
- Thomas Edison

Euripides

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
- Euripides

Zachery Taylor

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
- Zachery Taylor

Bishop John Wilkins

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.
- Bishop John Wilkins

John Milton

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
- John Milton

Bette Midler

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
- Bette Midler

Lillian Carter

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
- Lillian Carter

Arnold Palmer

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
- Arnold Palmer

Ida R. Wylie

Another of our highly prized virtues is fidelity. We are immensely pleased with ourselves when we are faithful.
- Ida R. Wylie

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction' ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1974)

Tao Te Ching

Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.
- Tao Te Ching

Mark Twain

A barber seldom rubs you like a Christian.
- Mark Twain