James Whistler

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.
- James Whistler

Ernest Hemingway

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
- Ernest Hemingway

George Burns

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
- George Burns

Oscar Wilde

Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
- Oscar Wilde

Lewis Carroll

That's the reason they're called lessons... because they lessen from day to day.
- Lewis Carroll

Voltaire

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
- Voltaire

H Jackson Brown Jr.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.
- H Jackson Brown Jr.

Steve G. Steinberg

Mosaic is the 1990's equivalent of forcing friends to sit through slides of your trip to Florida - painful for everyone but the host.
- Steve G. Steinberg

Sophia Loren

Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.
- Sophia Loren

Edith Wharton

“How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? ”
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

Bo Lozoff

"It is not service but altruism that makes us happy."
- Bo Lozoff

Theodore Roosevelt

To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
- Theodore Roosevelt

William Shakespeare

 “Small things make base men proud.”
- William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II (1564-1616)

Reinhold Niebuhr

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

A.L. Kitselman

"The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you’re claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you."
- A.L. Kitselman

Wernher von Braun

Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.
- Wernher von Braun

Susan Laurson Willig

Limited expectations yield only limited results.
- Susan Laurson Willig

Bob Proctor

Refuse to let your present results influence your thinking. Keep reminding yourself that you have a power within you that is superior to any condition or circumstance you may encounter enroute to your goal.
- Bob Proctor

Eric Hoffer

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
- Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955

Lawrence Housman

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
- Lawrence Housman

Grace Allen

It's foolish to bet on a horse without talking to him first. I know it seems silly to ask a horse who's going to win a race - but it's no sillier than asking anyone else.
- Grace Allen

James Allen

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
- James Allen

Bertrand Russell

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Dr. Micah Sadigh

"Existence is synonymous with purpose."
- Dr. Micah Sadigh

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is a series of collisions with the future, it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Friedrich Nietzsche

"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Wayne Dyer

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you."
- Wayne Dyer

Tao Te Ching

He who rushes ahead doesn't go far.
- Tao Te Ching

Anonymous

I believe we should all pay our tax bill with a smile. I tried but they wanted cash.
- Anonymous

Niccolo Machiavelli

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Mark Twain

It is poison--rank poison to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes--and we may not escape them--it is not possible--but we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.
- Mark Twain