Yogi Berra

"If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em."
- Yogi Berra

James Oppenheim

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
- James Oppenheim

Mahatma Gandhi

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Edith Wharton

"In spite of illness, even of the archenemy, sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways."
- Edith Wharton

George S. Patton

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
- George S. Patton

Anita Brookner

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
- Anita Brookner

Dorothea Brande

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
- Dorothea Brande

Henri Frederic Amiel

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Things forbidden have a secret charm.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

Friedrich Nietzsche

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Josh Billings

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
- Josh Billings

Marion D. Hanks

Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!!
- Marion D. Hanks

Woodrow T. Wilson

All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
- Woodrow T. Wilson

Ellen DeGeneres

(about local news) They do these teases to get you to watch late on. They're so incredibly cruel: "It could be the most deadly thing in the world and you may be having it for dinner. We'll tell you what it is tonight at 11:00."
- Ellen DeGeneres

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

G.K. Chesterton

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
- G.K. Chesterton

William Shakespeare

“What's done is done.”
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1564-1616)

Charles Seymour

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself.
- Charles Seymour

Thomas Hobbes

Words are the money of fools.
- Thomas Hobbes

Johnny Carson

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.
- Johnny Carson

Henry David Thoreau

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau

John Muir

“Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.”
- John Muir

George Herbert

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
- George Herbert

Richard Baker

To get rich never risk your health. For it is the truth that health is the wealth of wealth.
- Richard Baker

Ami Gupta

Your most intuitive, meaningful, and devastatingly clever design is worthless unless it's shallow enough to appeal in the first five seconds.
- Ami Gupta

Elbert Hubbard

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.
- Elbert Hubbard

Anonymous

Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.
- Anonymous

Thomas Edison

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
- Thomas Edison

Johann von Goethe

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
- Johann von Goethe

Richard Milhouse Nixon

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.
- Richard Milhouse Nixon

Mark Twain

So it is not nakedness that gives the sense of immodesty, the modifying the nakedness is what does it.
- Mark Twain