Baltasar Gracian

"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
- Baltasar Gracian

William Shakespeare

I stalk about her door like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for wattage.
- William Shakespeare

Epictetus

Whoever does not regard what he has as most amply wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus

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

Edmund Burke

Good order is the foundation of all good things.
- Edmund Burke

Karl Marx

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
- Karl Marx

David Lloyd George

"Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps."
- David Lloyd George

Napoleon Hill

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don’t control what you think, you can’t control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.
- Napoleon Hill

Pearl S. Buck

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
- Pearl S. Buck

Randy K. Milholland

"The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a woman."
- Randy K. Milholland

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Cardinal Newman

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning."
- Cardinal Newman

Yahia Lababidi

If Love, as they say, is blind then, Lust must be deaf, dumb and blind.
- Yahia Lababidi

Ambrose Bierce

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
- Ambrose Bierce

Garrison Keillor

"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."
- Garrison Keillor

Louis Aragon

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.
- Louis Aragon

Marcus T. Cicero

Ability without honor is useless.
- Marcus T. Cicero

Bob Hope

"People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy."
- Bob Hope

Aristotle

For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
- Aristotle

Frank Moore Colby

"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
- Frank Moore Colby

St. Augustine

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
- St. Augustine

Charles Osgood

Babies are always more trouble than you thought, and more wonderful.
- Charles Osgood

Samuel Goldwyn

"Let's have some new cliches."
- Samuel Goldwyn

Homer

Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
- Homer

Lawrence Durrell

“Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will — whatever we may think.”
- Lawrence Durrell

Lao Tzu

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
- Lao Tzu

Karl Albrecht

The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
- Karl Albrecht

Rollo May

"One of the ironies of the human being is that when he has lost his way, he travels twice as fast."
- Rollo May

Wayne Pearson

Yesterday I met a four year old girl who truly understands the value of a dollar... maybe I should get her to have a chat with my wife.
- Wayne Pearson

Hunter S. Thompson

“If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. ”
- Hunter S. Thompson (1937 - 2005)

Mark Twain

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
- Mark Twain