Marilyn Monroe

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.
- Marilyn Monroe

Joseph De Maistre

Every country has the government it deserves.
- Joseph De Maistre

William Butler Yeats

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
- William Butler Yeats

Jane Austen

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them."
- Jane Austen

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I love the intellectual type, they know everything and suspect nothing.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

Steven Wright

"I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it."
- Steven Wright

Yogi Berra

Never answer an anonymous letter.
- Yogi Berra

Margaret Thatcher

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
- Margaret Thatcher

Ronald Reagan

As government expands, liberty contracts.
- Ronald Reagan

Francis Bacon

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
- Francis Bacon

Rose Kennedy

"Crowding a life does not always enrich it."
- Rose Kennedy

Oscar Wilde

Biography lends to death a new terror.
- Oscar Wilde

Tao Te Ching

Just stay at the center of the circle and let all things take their course.
- Tao Te Ching

Plato

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
- Plato

George Washington Carver

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver

Winston Churchill

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill

Edmund Burke

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
- Edmund Burke

Laurel Hoodwrit

How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body?
- Laurel Hoodwrit

William Cowper

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
- William Cowper

Alan Keightley

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.”
- Alan Keightley

Lawrence Clark Powell

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed; it is the same as it has always been, since Callimachus administered the great library in Alexandria.
- Lawrence Clark Powell

Audrey Hepburn

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.
- Audrey Hepburn

Dave Barry

Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.
- Dave Barry

Joseph Addison

"True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions."
- Joseph Addison

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

James Anthony Froude

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
- James Anthony Froude

George Bernard Shaw

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw

Mark Twain

...among human beings jealousy ranks distinctly as a weakness; a trademark of small minds; a property of all small minds, yet a property which even the smallest is ashamed of; and when accused of its possession will lyingly deny it and resent the accusation as an insult.
- Mark Twain