C. S. Lewis

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done...
- C. S. Lewis

Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share riches but to reveal him his own.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Unknown

"Antonym, n.: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of."
- Unknown

Eugene McCarthy

"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important."
- Eugene McCarthy

Soren Kierkegaard

"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."
- Soren Kierkegaard

H. G. Wells

"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it."
- H. G. Wells

George Holbrook Jackson

Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
- George Holbrook Jackson

George Mcgovern

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.
- George Mcgovern

Oswald Chambers

The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.
- Oswald Chambers

Mel Gibson

We went for breakfast ... in Canada. We made a deal: if she'd stop hooking, I'd stop shooting people. I guess we were both aiming a little high.
- Mel Gibson

Dale Carnegie

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
- Dale Carnegie

Buckminster Fuller

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
- Buckminster Fuller

Matthew Arnold

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
- Matthew Arnold

Storm Jameson

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
- Storm Jameson

James Herriot

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
- James Herriot

William Shakespeare

“Why, then the world's mine oyster.”
- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. (1564-1616)

Dalai Lama

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
- Dalai Lama

Elbert Hubbard

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
- Elbert Hubbard

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Stephen Hawking

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
- Stephen Hawking

Steven Wright

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
- Steven Wright

Michael Jordan

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
- Michael Jordan

Jerry Seinfeld

"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking."
- Jerry Seinfeld

Isaac Asimov

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' ”
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

W. Somerset Maugham

"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."
- W. Somerset Maugham

Edward R. Murrow

"Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar."
- Edward R. Murrow

John Wooden

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

James Knox Polk

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.
- James Knox Polk

Mark Twain

It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
- Mark Twain