Stephen Vincent Benet

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
- Stephen Vincent Benet

Terry Pratchett

“Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.”
- Terry Pratchett (1948 -)

James Russell Lowell

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
- James Russell Lowell

Niccolo Machiavelli

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Albert Einstein

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.
- Albert Einstein

W.C. Fields

Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.
- W.C. Fields

William Congreve

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
- William Congreve

Thomas Jefferson

Information is the currency of democracy.
- Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Paine

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
- Thomas Paine

Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Doris Lessing

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- Doris Lessing

Herbert George Wells

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- Herbert George Wells

Zoe Atkins

"Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing."
- Zoe Atkins

James Russell Lowell

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
- James Russell Lowell

Karl Marx

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
- Karl Marx

Douglas Adams

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
- Douglas Adams

Don Marquis

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
- Don Marquis

Anonymous

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.
- Anonymous

George Bernard Shaw

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
- George Bernard Shaw

John Quincy Adams

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
- John Quincy Adams

William Faulkner

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
- William Faulkner

Napoleon Hill

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
- Napoleon Hill

Isaac Newton

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
- Isaac Newton

Tom Stoppard

"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
- Tom Stoppard

Doris Day

"The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it."
- Doris Day

Blaise Pascal

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
- Blaise Pascal

Mark Twain

...being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.
- Mark Twain