Sir Edward Coke

Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
- Sir Edward Coke

Victor Cousin

True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
- Victor Cousin

Jim Cathcart

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
- Jim Cathcart

Peter Drucker

"Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future."
- Peter Drucker

Niccolo Machiavelli

Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Confucius

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
- Confucius

James Thurber

"All men should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."
- James Thurber

Thomas Jefferson

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

Mae West

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
- Mae West

Gertrude Stein

"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is."
- Gertrude Stein

Samuel Johnson

"Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say."
- Samuel Johnson

Unknown

"In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it."
- Unknown

Elbert Hubbard

"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."
- Elbert Hubbard

Albert Einstein

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
- Albert Einstein

Socrates

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates

Margaret Thatcher

No woman in my time will be Prime Minister...
- Margaret Thatcher

Pearl S. Buck

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
- Pearl S. Buck

Henry David Thoreau

“Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.”
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Richard Milhouse Nixon

The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.
- Richard Milhouse Nixon

C. S. Lewis

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
- C. S. Lewis

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Oscar Wilde

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
- Oscar Wilde

Walter Benjamin

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
- Walter Benjamin

Gita Bhagavad

To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.
- Gita Bhagavad

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

John R. Mott

The greatest hindrances to the evangelization of the world are those within the church.
- John R. Mott

Albert Camus

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
- Albert Camus

George Bernard Shaw

"The golden rule is that there are no golden rules."
- George Bernard Shaw

Thomas Edison

"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary."
- Thomas Edison

Mark Twain

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?
- Mark Twain