Han Suyin

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
- Han Suyin

Robert Burn

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
- Robert Burn

Chester Alan Arthur

Good ballplayers make good citizens.
- Chester Alan Arthur

Steve Albini

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

Bishop John Wilkins

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

Euripides

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

Prince Philip

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

George Carlin

“Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.”
- George Carlin

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Marquis De Sade

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
- Marquis De Sade

Nancy Astor

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on a woman.
- Nancy Astor

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Friedrich Nietzsche

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

John Lydon Rotten

My reputation is a media creation.
- John Lydon Rotten

Elizabeth Janeway

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.
- Elizabeth Janeway

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay

Pearl S. Buck

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
- Pearl S. Buck

Ambrose Bierce

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
- Ambrose Bierce

James M. Barrie

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Terry Pratchett

“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. ”
- Terry Pratchett, Hogfather (1948 -)

Belva Davis

"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."
- Belva Davis

Tao Te Ching

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
- Tao Te Ching

Buddha

His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.
- Buddha

Albert Einstein

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
- Albert Einstein

Oscar Wilde

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Oscar Wilde

Lewis Carroll

It takes all the running you can do just to keep in the same place.
- Lewis Carroll

Akhenaton

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
- Akhenaton

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Steven Wright

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.
- Steven Wright

Mark Twain

There isn't a rich man in your vast city who doesn't perjure himself every year before the tax board. They are all caked with perjury, many layers thick. Iron-clad, so to speak. If there is one that isn't, I desire to acquire him for my museum, and will pay Dinosaur rates.
- Mark Twain