Confucius

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
- Confucius

Miss Piggy

Never eat more than you can lift."
- Miss Piggy

Larry Gelbart

"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you."
- Larry Gelbart

Susan Sarandon

Children reinvent your world for you.
- Susan Sarandon

Robert Byrne

"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat."
- Robert Byrne

Laurence J. Peter

"Everyone rises to their level of incompetence."
- Laurence J. Peter

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. T. Studd

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
- C. T. Studd

Alexandre Dumas

Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.
- Alexandre Dumas

Robert Kioysaki

Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.
- Robert Kioysaki

Richard Bach

Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.
- Richard Bach

Robert Louis Stevenson

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Santayana

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
- Santayana, Essays

Eddie Allison

Little Miss Muffet, sat on a tuffet, Eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider, Who sat down beside her And she ate that too!
- Eddie Allison

Buddha

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
- Buddha

Samuel Johnson

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.
- Samuel Johnson

Mahatma Gandhi

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

James Allen

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
- James Allen

Emily Post

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.
- Emily Post

Alfred North Whitehead

"Seek simplicity, and distrust it."
- Alfred North Whitehead

Elaine Gill

"If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names."
- Elaine Gill

Hunter S. Thompson

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.
- Hunter S. Thompson

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Tony Wheeler

“If there is a nice place, and the place does not come to you — you have to come to the place.”
- Tony Wheeler

Cathy Guisewite

Each of us wages a private battle each day between the grand fantasies we have for ourselves and what actually happens.
- Cathy Guisewite

Rosalynn Carter

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
- Rosalynn Carter

Sir Walter Scott

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above, For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
- Sir Walter Scott

Tom Stoppard

“Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”
- Tom Stoppard (1937)

Mitch Hedberg

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
- Mitch Hedberg

H.L. Mencken

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.
- H.L. Mencken

Mark Twain

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain