W.C. Fields

Secretary: "It must be hard to lose your mother-in-law." WC: "Yes it is, very hard. It's almost impossible."
- W.C. Fields

Simone Weil

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.
- Simone Weil

Oscar Wilde

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
- Oscar Wilde

St. Francis of Assisi

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968)

Ambrose Bierce

Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than another.
- Ambrose Bierce

Judith M. Knowlton

I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.
- Judith M. Knowlton

Arthur Schopenhauer

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

David Starr Jordan

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
- David Starr Jordan

Dave Barry

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
- Dave Barry

Feuerbach

Religion has its genesis in the essential difference between man and the animal -- the animals have no religion.
- Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Katherine Mansfield

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
- Katherine Mansfield

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction' ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal. ”
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1974)

James Thurber

"All men should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."
- James Thurber

Walter M. Bortz

"The life which like the sun grows larger at its setting is the ideal."
- Walter M. Bortz

Richard Holloway

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
- Richard Holloway

William Shakespeare

O, it is excellent to have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
- William Shakespeare

Lily Tomlin

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
- Lily Tomlin

George Sand

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
- George Sand

Agnes Replier

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
- Agnes Replier

C. S. Lewis

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.
- C. S. Lewis

Sigmund Freud

“This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.”
- Sigmund Freud (about the Irish) (1856 - 1939)

Richard Paul Evans

"Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were."
- Richard Paul Evans

Gilbert K. Chesterton

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.
- Emily Dickinson

Joan Rivers

A man can sleep around, no questions asked; but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
- Joan Rivers

Isaac Asimov

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
- Isaac Asimov

Mark Twain

There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort. - Mark Twain