Marty Feldman

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.
- Marty Feldman

Albert Camus

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
- Albert Camus

Ken Dodd

Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
- Ken Dodd

Lao Tzu

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
- Lao Tzu

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

George Bernard Shaw

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not."
- George Bernard Shaw

George Arliss

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
- George Arliss

Nikita Khrushchev

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
- Nikita Khrushchev

Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is love there is life.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Benjamin Disraeli

If you are not very clever, you should be conciliatory.
- Benjamin Disraeli

William Wycherley

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
- William Wycherley

Cecil F. Alexander

The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate.
- Cecil F. Alexander

H.G. Wells

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
- H.G. Wells

Moliere

According to the saying of an ancient philosopher, one should eat to live, and not live to eat.
- Moliere

Dave Barry

A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.
- Dave Barry

Albert Einstein

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions"
- Albert Einstein

Bertrand Russell

One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell

Pablo Picasso

Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
- Pablo Picasso

Helen Hunt Jackson

O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather.
- Helen Hunt Jackson

H. L. Mencken

"All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else."
- H. L. Mencken

Thorstein Veblen

"Invention is the mother of necessity."
- Thorstein Veblen

Groucho Marx

Remember men, we're fighting for this woman's honour; which is probably more than she ever did.
- Groucho Marx

Alfred North Whitehead

“One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.”
- Alfred North Whitehead

Epicurus

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.
- Epicurus

Carl Jung

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.
- Carl Jung

Hunter S. Thompson

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
- Hunter S. Thompson (1937 - 2005)

Sir Roger L’Estrange

"It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters."
- Sir Roger L’Estrange

Dale Carnegie

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
- Dale Carnegie

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poverty consist in feeling poor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mark Twain

It isn't the sum you get, it's how much you can buy with it, that's the important thing; and it's that that tells whether your wages are high in fact or only high in name.
- Mark Twain