Ambrose Bierce

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
- Ambrose Bierce

David Oman McKay

There should be no yelling in the home unless there is a fire.
- David Oman McKay

Jose Ortega y Gasset

"Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by an indomitable urge to extend its boundaries."
- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Charles Schaefer

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.
- Charles Schaefer

Oscar Wilde

“Nature is a foolish place to look for inspiration in, but a charming one in which to forget one ever had any.”
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Shelley Winters

"I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience."
- Shelley Winters

Dana Carvey

"I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level."
- Dana Carvey

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood, no more, to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Elizabeth Aston

"Love has no place in a lawyer's office."
- Elizabeth Aston

Confucius

Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.
- Confucius

Socrates

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.
- Socrates

Bart Simpson

Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
- Bart Simpson

William Shakespeare

“As good luck would have it.”
- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (1564-1616)

Richard Lamm

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want-and their kids pay for it.
- Richard Lamm

Zelda Fitzgerald

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.
- Zelda Fitzgerald

Dylan Thomas

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
- Dylan Thomas

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Mahatma Gandhi

Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Charlotte Bronte

You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.
- Charlotte Bronte

Henny Youngman

I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she'll kill me.
- Henny Youngman

John Stuart Mill

Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have produced Mind but Mind.
- John Stuart Mill

Virgil

"Fortune sides with him who dares."
- Virgil

H. Jackson Brown

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not by strength but by perseverance."
- H. Jackson Brown

Charles Lamb

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their fathers religion, if they can find out what it is.
- Charles Lamb

Anonymous

I used to jog 5 miles a day... then I found a short cut.
- Anonymous

Buddhist Quote

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love, this is the eternal rule.
- Buddhist Quote

Rollo May

"One of the ironies of the human being is that when he has lost his way, he travels twice as fast."
- Rollo May

Mark Twain

Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...That is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind,--politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.
- Mark Twain