Margaret Thatcher

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
- Margaret Thatcher

David Ogilvy

The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife.
- David Ogilvy

John Petit-Senn

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.
- John Petit-Senn

Francis Bacon

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
- Francis Bacon

Lucille Ball

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."
- Lucille Ball

Jimmy Demaret

"Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at."
- Jimmy Demaret

Ellen DeGeneres

"The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble."
- Ellen DeGeneres

James Russell Lowell

"Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people."
- James Russell Lowell

John Maxwell

Leadership is influence.
- John Maxwell

Dorothy L. Sayers

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
- Dorothy L. Sayers

Scott Adams

Next week, a doctor with a flashlight shows us where sales projections come from.
- Scott Adams

Alfred A. Montapert

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
- Alfred A. Montapert

Max Born

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
- Max Born

Louis L’Amour

“Too often… I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.”
- Louis L’Amour

Henry Ford

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
- Henry Ford

Elbert Hubbard

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
- Elbert Hubbard

Plutarch

"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resists."
- Plutarch

Hans Christian Andersen

Nothing is too high for a man to reach, but he must climb with care and confidence.
- Hans Christian Andersen

William M. Thackeray

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
- William M. Thackeray

American Proverb

Eggs cannot be unscrambled.
- American Proverb

Dana Eagle

Studies show that 80 percent of the population suffers from depression, and the other 20 percent of you cause it.
- Dana Eagle

Lou Holtz

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.
- Lou Holtz

George Eliot

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
- George Eliot

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friedrich Nietzsche

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Alexander Pope

Hither the heroes and nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th'instuctive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British Queen, And one describes a charming Indian screenl A third interprets motions, looks and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.
- Alexander Pope

Mahatma Gandhi

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Aldous Leonard Huxley

The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface.
- Aldous Leonard Huxley

Dr. Martin Luther King

Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is a permanent attitude.
- Dr. Martin Luther King

Camryn Manheim

It’s okay to be a fat man. It’s prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
- Camryn Manheim

Mark Twain

"Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it."
- Mark Twain