French Proverb

Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
- French Proverb

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Horace

“They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.”
- Horace

Mahatma Gandhi

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi

E. L. Simpson

Getting an idea should be like sitting down on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something.
- E. L. Simpson

Dave Edison

I am desperately trying to figure out why Kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
- Dave Edison

Wallace Irwin

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
- Wallace Irwin

William Shakespeare

“He will give the devil his due.”
- William Shakespeare, King Henry IV Part I (1564-1616)

Isaac Asimov

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
- Isaac Asimov

Peter M. Senge

"The essence of personal mastery is learning how to generate and sustain creative tension in our lives."
- Peter M. Senge

Charles de Gaulle

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
- Charles de Gaulle

Dale Carnegie

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
- Dale Carnegie

H. L. Mencken

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
- H. L. Mencken

Edward Abbey

"One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork."
- Edward Abbey

Norman Vincent Peale

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Bette Davis

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.
- Bette Davis

Frank Zappa

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change peoples minds.
- Frank Zappa

Robert Southey

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.
- Robert Southey

A. J. Liebling

"Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one."
- A. J. Liebling

Francis Bacon

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
- Francis Bacon

Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

George Arliss

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
- George Arliss

Saul W. Gellerman

When in doubt, don't.
- Saul W. Gellerman

James Magary

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.
- James Magary

Sydney J. Harris

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong."
- Sydney J. Harris

Elbert Hubbard

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
- Elbert Hubbard

Cervantes

The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach.
- Cervantes

Edward Munch

“Nature is not only what is visible to the eye - it shows the inner images of the soul - the images on the back side of the eyes.”
- Edward Munch (1863-1944)

Camryn Manheim

It’s okay to be a fat man. It’s prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
- Camryn Manheim

Henry David Thoreau

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unimagined in common hours."
- Henry David Thoreau

Mark Twain

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can be great."
- Mark Twain