Josh Billings

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Josh Billings

Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
- Albert Einstein

Marcel Proust

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
- Marcel Proust

Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
- Blaise Pascal

J. August Strindberg

That is the thankless position of the father in the family -- the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
- J. August Strindberg

Henny Youngman

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?
- Henny Youngman

Charles Mingus

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.
- Charles Mingus

Ronald E. Osborn

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."
- Ronald E. Osborn

Hubert Humphrey

"Oh, my friend, it is not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left."
- Hubert Humphrey

Damon Runyon

I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.
- Damon Runyon

Chuck Palahniuk

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Dont be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

George Bernard Shaw

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”
- George Bernard Shaw

Rita Mae Brown

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
- Rita Mae Brown

Aleister Crowley

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
- Aleister Crowley

Earl Nightingale

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.
- Earl Nightingale

Rebecca West

"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."
- Rebecca West

Jane Wagner

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.
- Jane Wagner

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

"I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise."
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Japanese proverb

The poorest man is not without a cent, but without a dream.
- Japanese proverb

G. H. Hardy

"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."
- G. H. Hardy

Jerry Garcia

There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone.
- Jerry Garcia

Abbie Hoffman

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
- Abbie Hoffman

Vincent Lombardi

If it doesn't matter who wins, then how come they keep score?
- Vincent Lombardi

Samuel Butler

"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore."
- Samuel Butler

Charles Caleb Colton

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Groucho Marx

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough."
- Groucho Marx

Jeanne Moreau

Some people are addicts. If they don't act, they don't exist.
- Jeanne Moreau

Gail Sheehy

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are to really living.
- Gail Sheehy

Henry David Thoreau

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

Mark Twain

Of all the creatures [man]...is the only one--the solitary one--that possesses malice....He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain...all creatures kill...man is the only one...that kills in malice, the only one that kills for revenge.
- Mark Twain