H. L. Mencken

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
- H. L. Mencken

Buddha

The world, indeed, is like a dream and the treasures of the world are an alluring mirage! Like the apparent distances in a picture, things have no reality in themselves, but they are like heat haze.
- Buddha

Ann Landers

"When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate."
- Ann Landers

Bertrand Russell

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
- Bertrand Russell

Joseph Campbell

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell

Cher

“A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.”
- Cher (1946 - )

Ambrose Bierce

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
- Ambrose Bierce

Henry Ward Beecher

"It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible."
- Henry Ward Beecher

George Carlin

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.
- George Carlin

Albert Einstein

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
- Albert Einstein

C. S. Lewis

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
- C. S. Lewis

Robert Thomas Allen

“Most of my treasured memories of travel are recollections of sitting.”
- Robert Thomas Allen

Marva Collins

"Success doesn't come to you, you go to it."
- Marva Collins

John Lyly

After three days, fish and guests stink.
- John Lyly

Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi

George E. Vallant

"Hans Selye is wrong; it is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that permits us to live."
- George E. Vallant

Andrew Johnson

Our government sprang from and was made for the people -- not the people for the government. To them it owes an allegiance; from them it must derive its courage, strength, and wisdom.
- Andrew Johnson

Stephen Leacock

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Stephen Leacock

William Shakespeare

In a false quarrel there is no true valour.
- William Shakespeare

Paul Fussell

“Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travelers… seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.”
- Paul Fussell

Norman Cousins

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
- Norman Cousins

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
- Marcus Valerius Martial

Jean De La Bruyere

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
- Jean De La Bruyere

Sylvester Stallone

Like I said, I've got too much respect for women to marry them, but that doesn't mean you can't support them emotionally and financially.
- Sylvester Stallone

Dejan Stojanovic

Disease often comes with a smiling face.
- Dejan Stojanovic

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

The more things change, the more they remain the same.
- Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr

William Feather

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
- William Feather

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Napoleon

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."
- Napoleon

Mark Twain

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
- Mark Twain