Will Rogers

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers

Nigerian proverb

“A traveler to distant places should make no enemies.”
- Nigerian proverb

Richard Armour

A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread.
- Richard Armour

Thomas Robert Gaines

"It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is good, but work and desire are invincible."
- Thomas Robert Gaines

William Styron

A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.
- William Styron

C. S. Lewis

People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs.
- C. S. Lewis

Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- Oscar Wilde

H. L. Mencken

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- H. L. Mencken

George Washington Carver

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver

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

Primo Levi

The aims of life are the best defense against death.
- Primo Levi

Edmund Burke

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
- Edmund Burke

Emo Philips

Back in high school, my buddies tried to put the make on anything that moved. I told them, "Why limit yourselves?"
- Emo Philips

Scott Adams

"The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up."
- Scott Adams

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Merlin Olsen

The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.
- Merlin Olsen

Jack London

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
- Jack London

Tallulah Bankhead

"They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum."
- Tallulah Bankhead

Don Johnson

I can do whatever I want -- I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.
- Don Johnson

Judith Martin

"Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation."
- Judith Martin

Hodding Carter

“Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.”
- Hodding Carter

Sigurd F. Olson

Life is good to those who know how to live. I do not ever hope to accumulate great funds of worldly wealth, but I shall accumulate something far more valuable, a store of wonderful memories. When I reach the twilight of life I shall look back and say I'm glad I lived as I did, life has been good to me.
- Sigurd F. Olson

Arthur C. Clarke

When an elderly and distinguished scientist tells you that something is possible, he is very probably right. When he tells you that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Fred Woodworth

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.
- Fred Woodworth

William Shakespeare

“Having nothing, nothing can he lose.”
- William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part III (1564-1616)

Epictetus

"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond our control."
- Epictetus

Unknown

If life is a waste of time, and time is a waste of life, why don't we all get wasted and have the time of our lives?
- Unknown

Ambrose Bierce

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
- Ambrose Bierce

G. K. Chesterton

I will not call it my philosophy, for I did not make it. God and humanity made it, and it made me.
- G. K. Chesterton

Mark Twain

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
- Mark Twain