Nicholas Chamfort

"In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are."
- Nicholas Chamfort

Willie Tyler

"The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time."
- Willie Tyler

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.
- Johann Kaspar Lavater

A. P. Gouthey

There are two great forces in this world -- good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.
- A. P. Gouthey

Bruce Lee

Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!
- Bruce Lee

George Bernard Shaw

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.
- George Bernard Shaw

Ambrose Bierce

POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
- Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary

Thomas Edison

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
- Thomas Edison

Andre Gide

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

Chinese Proverb

Do not anxiously hope for what is not yet to come; do not vainly regret what is already past.
- Chinese Proverb

Rita Mae Brown

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
- Rita Mae Brown

Jack Kerouac

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”
- Jack Kerouac

Euripides

I know indeed what evil I intend to do,but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
- Euripides

Duffy Daugherty

When you're are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. Its more important than that.
- Duffy Daugherty

Napoleon

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon

Terry Pratchett

“Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...”
- Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay (1948 -)

Yogi Berra

I really liked it. Even the music was good. (When asked if he liked the opera one evening.)
- Yogi Berra

Jean De La Bruyere

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
- Jean De La Bruyere

Bertrand Russell

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; thats fair. In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.
- Bertrand Russell

Aristotle

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
- Aristotle

Thomas Fuller

The more laws, the more offenders.
- Thomas Fuller

Socrates

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
- Socrates

Buddha

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
- Buddha

Albert Einstein

A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.
- Albert Einstein

C. S. Lewis

Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions.
- C. S. Lewis

Greg Anderson

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
- Greg Anderson

Mark Twain

"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."
- Mark Twain