Aristophanes

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
- Aristophanes

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In youth we learn; in age we understand.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Robert von Musil

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.
- Robert von Musil, Kleine Prosa

Konstantin Stanislavisky

Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.
- Konstantin Stanislavisky

Nancy Reagan

"I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty."
- Nancy Reagan

Christina Rossetti

Obedience is the fruit of faith.
- Christina Rossetti

Laurence J. Peter

"If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?"
- Laurence J. Peter

Alexander Graham Bell

When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell

Chuck Palahniuk

he best way is not to fight it, just go. Dont be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Dave Barry

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
- Dave Barry

Carl Sagan

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
- Carl Sagan

Japanese proverb

The poorest man is not without a cent, but without a dream.
- Japanese proverb

Margaret Mead

“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”
- Margaret Mead

Peter F. Drucker

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.
- Peter F. Drucker

William Shakespeare

“He will give the devil his due.”
- William Shakespeare, King Henry IV Part I (1564-1616)

Channing Pollock

"Happiness is a way station between too much and too little."
- Channing Pollock

Roseanne Barr

"I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on."
- Roseanne Barr

Napoleon Hill

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill

John Maynard Keynes

The difficulty lies not in the new ideas but in escaping the old ones which ramify for those brought up as most of us have been into every corner of our minds.
- John Maynard Keynes

Stephen Covey

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
- Stephen Covey

Hunter S. Thompson

“In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile. ”
- Hunter S. Thompson (1937 - 2005)

Ambrose Bierce

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
- Ambrose Bierce

George Carlin

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin

Kathy Buckley

"When I was young, I was put in a school for retarded kids for two years before they realized I actually had a hearing loss. And they called ME slow!"
- Kathy Buckley

Buddha

All tremble at punishment. Life is dear to all. Put yourself in the place of others; kill none nor have another killed.
- Buddha

C. S. Lewis

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.
- C. S. Lewis

Socrates

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
- Socrates

Stephen Hawking

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
- Stephen Hawking

Aldous Huxley

"Happiness is like coke -- something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else."
- Aldous Huxley

Mark Twain

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- Mark Twain