Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!"
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Paul Dirac

"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."
- Paul Dirac

Cullen Hightower

"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it."
- Cullen Hightower

Martina Navratilova

Whoever said, It's not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost.
- Martina Navratilova - American Tennis Player

William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

To know the hight of a mountain, one must climb it.
- William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Selma Lagerlöf

“It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.”
- Selma Lagerlöf

Steven Wright

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
- Steven Wright

John Burroughs

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
- John Burroughs

Jane Austen

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
- Jane Austen

Albert Einstein

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein

Charles Evans Hughes

While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
- Charles Evans Hughes

Minna Antrim

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
- Minna Antrim

Robert Burns

Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom’s root.
- Robert Burns

Charlotte Whitton

"Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."
- Charlotte Whitton

Jennifer Unlimited

"Every time I close the door on reality, it comes in through the windows."
- Jennifer Unlimited

Dick Clark

"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?"
- Dick Clark

Thomas Moore

A friendship that like love is warm, A love like friendship, steady.
- Thomas Moore

Barbara Bush

Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.
- Barbara Bush

Herbert Clark Hoover

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned
- Herbert Clark Hoover

Isaac Asimov

“Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. ”
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

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

Carole Hyatt and Linda Gottlieb

"There are people who learn, who are open to what happens to them, who listen, who hear the lessons. . . . The question to ask is not whether you are a success or failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner."
- Carole Hyatt and Linda Gottlieb

Jane Sellman

"The phrase 'working mother' is redundant."
- Jane Sellman

Oscar Wilde

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
- Oscar Wilde

Leonardo da Vinci

No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Rhonda Hansome

"A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't."
- Rhonda Hansome

Doug Floyd

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
- Doug Floyd

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gilbert K. Chesterton

My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mark Twain

When I'm, playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.
- Mark Twain