Colley Cibber

Thou strange piece of wild nature!
- Colley Cibber

Imelda Marcos

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
- Imelda Marcos

Samuel Johnson

"A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
- Samuel Johnson

Cyril Connolly

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
- Cyril Connolly

Proverb

The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb

Bart Simpson

There's no such thing as a soul. It's just something they made up to scare kids, like the boogeyman or Michael Jackson.
- Bart Simpson

Dave Barry

“Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages.”
- Dave Barry

Steven Wright

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?"
- Steven Wright

Albert Szent-Györgyi

We are all but recent leaves on the same old tree of life and if this life has adapted itself to new functions and conditions, it uses the same old basic principles over and over again. There is no real difference between the grass and the man who mows it.
- Albert Szent-Györgyi

H. L. Mencken

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
- H. L. Mencken

Belva Davis

"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."
- Belva Davis

Thomas H. Huxley

"The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
- Thomas H. Huxley

Richard Holloway

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.
- Richard Holloway

Henry Chester

"Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence."
- Henry Chester

Henry David Thoreau

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
- Henry David Thoreau

Douglas Adams

“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

Hugh Blair

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.
- Hugh Blair

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Edmund Burke

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

Jorge Luis Borges

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
- Jorge Luis Borges

Joan Rivers

You know you're getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
- Joan Rivers

Arthur Schopenhauer

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Wernher von Braun

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Wernher von Braun

William Shakespeare

“He hath eaten me out of house and home.”
- William Shakespeare, King Henry IV Part I (1564-1616)

Helen Merrell Lynd

"Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values."
- Helen Merrell Lynd

Raymond Joseph Teller

"We always felt as if every show was the most important thing in the world, but knew if we bombed, we'd live."
- Raymond Joseph Teller

Carl Jung

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
- Carl Jung

Marie Carmichael Stopes

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.
- Marie Carmichael Stopes

Albert Einstein

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein

Mark Twain

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
- Mark Twain