Ian Fleming

"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
- Ian Fleming

Mae West

I'm no angel, but I've spread my wings a bit.
- Mae West

Bill Shankly

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.
- Bill Shankly

George Bernard Shaw

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
- George Bernard Shaw

Bill Watterson

“So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?”
- Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes) (1958 - )

Thomas J. Watson

It is better to aim at perfection and miss, than to aim at imperfection and hit it.
- Thomas J. Watson

Charles Kingsley

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
- Charles Kingsley

Hosea Bellou

"There is no such thing as 'best' in the world of individuals."
- Hosea Bellou

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

John Dryden

Nature meant me a wife, a silly harmless household Dove, fond without art; and kind without deceit.
- John Dryden

Ronald Cohen

The first rule of luck in business is that you should persevere in doing the right thing. Opportunities will come your way if you do.
- Ronald Cohen

Sigmund Freud

The ego is not master in its own house.
- Sigmund Freud

Aaron Howard

Art is a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.
- Aaron Howard

Benjamin Franklin

He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.
- Benjamin Franklin

Rosalia de Castro

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.”
- Rosalia de Castro

Rita Rudner

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.
- Rita Rudner

Blaise Pascal

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
- Blaise Pascal

Henry James

"She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. "
- Henry James

Jill Churchill

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
- Jill Churchill

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose--a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wilson Mizner

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.
- Wilson Mizner

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

C. S. Lewis

Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many...
- C. S. Lewis

Dolly Parton

I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?
- Dolly Parton

Charles R. Swindoll

Alleged "impossibilities" are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
- Charles R. Swindoll

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

Albert Einstein

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein

Sir Walter Scott

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above, For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
- Sir Walter Scott

Douglas Adams

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
- Douglas Adams

Mark Twain

As for the dinosaur--But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal, and America had not then been discovered.
- Mark Twain