John A. Wheeler

“If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.”
- John A. Wheeler (1911 - 2008)

Wilferd A. Peterson

See it big, and keep it simple.
- Wilferd A. Peterson

Ernest Hemingway

The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded.
- Ernest Hemingway

Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli

William Knudsen

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
- William Knudsen

Mitch Hedberg

"I know a lot about cars. I can look at a car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming."
- Mitch Hedberg

Juvenal

"Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, / And toss them on the wheels of Chance."
- Juvenal

Will Rogers

"Politics is applesauce."
- Will Rogers

Tom Stoppard

"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."
-Tom Stoppard

Ambrose Bierce

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Mikhail Gorbachev

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
- Mikhail Gorbachev

Demetri Martin

Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.
- Demetri Martin

Andrew Carnegie

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
- Andrew Carnegie

Margaret Thatcher

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
- Margaret Thatcher

Emily Dickinson

The Gleam of an heroic act, Such strange illumination
The Possible's slow fuse it lit By the Imagination.
- Emily Dickinson

Roy M. Goodman

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.”
- Roy M. Goodman

Napoleon

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
- Napoleon

Robert Maynard Hutchins

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
- Robert Maynard Hutchins

Pietro Aretino

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
- Pietro Aretino

William Shakespeare

“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe.”
- William Shakespeare, King Richard III (1564-1616)

Robert S. Eliot

"If I knew I only had six months to live: 1) What would I have to do? 2) What would I want to do? and 3) What are the things I would neither have to do nor want to do?"
- Robert S. Eliot

Polly (Pearl) Adler

Your heart often knows things before your mind does.
- Polly (Pearl) Adler

Jennifer Unlimited

"I try to take one day at a time...but sometimes several days attack me at once."
- Jennifer Unlimited

Catherine

"If you can't be a good example...then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
- Catherine

John Wooden

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden

David Joseph Schwartz

All great achievements require time.
- David Joseph Schwartz

Grenville Kleiser

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.
- Grenville Kleiser

Caryn Leschen

"Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart."
- Caryn Leschen

Bertrand Russell

"All movements go too far."
- Bertrand Russell

Mark Twain

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
- Mark Twain