Ross MacDonald

Nothing is wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald

John Buchan

"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
- John Buchan

George Eliot

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
- George Eliot

W. C. Fields

"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people."
- W. C. Fields

Sallust

The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
- Sallust

Francis Bacon

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
- Francis Bacon

Albert Camus

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus

Constantine Karamanlis

You do what you have to do in life, when you form a philosophy that you can't talk yourself out of.
- Constantine Karamanlis

Abraham Lincoln

“Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Edward Dahlberg

"Man pines to live but cannot endure the days of his life."
- Edward Dahlberg

Katherine Graham

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
- Katherine Graham

Robert Orben

Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.
- Robert Orben

William Carlos Williams

The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
-William Carlos Williams

Benedict Spinoza

Freedom is absolutely necessary for progress in science and the liberal arts. Everyone has as much right as he has might.
- Benedict Spinoza

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

George Bernard Shaw

"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can."
- George Bernard Shaw

Henry Ford

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
- Henry Ford

Will Durant

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt - particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.
- Will Durant

Kin Hubbard

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
- Kin Hubbard

Confucius

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
- Confucius

Plato

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
- Plato

C. S. Lewis

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
- C. S. Lewis

Josh Billings

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
- Josh Billings

Samuel Butler

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler

Francis Picabia

The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
- Francis Picabia

Doug Larson

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
- Doug Larson

Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness is not a reward — it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment — it is a result.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

Edward R. Murrow

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
- Edward R. Murrow

William Shakespeare

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.
- William Shakespeare

Ambrose Bierce

Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
- Ambrose Bierce