Plato

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
- Plato

Tao Te Ching

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
- Tao Te Ching

Charlie Chaplin

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
- Charlie Chaplin

Yogi Berra

You mean now? (When asked for the time.)
- Yogi Berra

Mathew Arnold

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming.
- Mathew Arnold

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Archimedes

Give me a lever long enough, and I shall move the world.
- Archimedes

C. S. Lewis

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
- C. S. Lewis

Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
- Albert Einstein

George Eliot

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.
- George Eliot

Arthur C. Clarke

"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale."
- Arthur C. Clarke

Zig Ziglar

Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
- Zig Ziglar

J. W. Schopf

"For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum."
- J. W. Schopf

Ambrose Bierce

Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
- Ambrose Bierce

Oscar Wilde

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde

Doug Larson

"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."
- Doug Larson

Hobart Brown

"Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars."
- Hobart Brown

Rodney Dangerfield

"My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met."
- Rodney Dangerfield

Barbara De Angelis

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
- Barbara De Angelis

W.C. Fields

I once donated a pint of my finest red corpuscles to the great American Red Cross and the doctor opined my blood was very helpful. Contained so much alcohol they could use it to sterilize their instruments.
- W.C. Fields

Alexander Pope

Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see, That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
- Alexander Pope

Italo Calvino

“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did now know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”
- Italo Calvino

Dan Bennett

An argument is the longest distance between two points of view.
- Dan Bennett

Anonymous

"You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow."
- Anonymous

James Anthony Froude

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

Winston Churchill

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
- Winston Churchill

Frederic Bastiat

Are we really certain that the mechanism of society, like the mechanism of the heavenly bodies or the mechanism of the human body, is subject to general laws? Are we really certain that it is a harmoniously organized whole? Or is it not true that what is most notable in society is the absence of all order?
- Frederic Bastiat

Chilo

Prefer a loss to dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
- Chilo

James M. Barrie

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

Douglas Adams

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
- Douglas Adams

Mark Twain

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.
- Mark Twain