E. B. White

"People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust."
- E. B. White

Paul Valery

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
- Paul Valery

Paul Bowles

“If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.”
- Paul Bowles

Alexis De Tocqueville

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
- Alexis De Tocqueville

Mitch Hedberg

I'd like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.
- Mitch Hedberg

Publius Syrus

No one knows what he can do till he tries.
- Publius Syrus

Bill Watterson

“If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life”
- Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes) (1958 - )

Rupert Murdoch

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.
- Rupert Murdoch

Arthur Schopenhauer

"The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Mignon McLaughlin

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.
- Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share riches but to reveal him his own.
- Benjamin Disraeli

George Herbert

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
- George Herbert

Bertrand Russell

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

O. B. Smith

Confidence and enthusiasm are the greatest sales producers in any kind of economy.
- O. B. Smith

Arthur Somers Roche

"Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained."
- Arthur Somers Roche

Oscar Wilde

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
- Oscar Wilde

Theodore Roethke

By daily dying I have come to be.
- Theodore Roethke

Rodney Dangerfield

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.
- Rodney Dangerfield

Buckminster Fuller

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.
- Buckminster Fuller

John Updike

What art offers is space, a certain breathing room for the spirit.
- John Updike

Ambrose Bierce

Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
- Ambrose Bierce

William Shakespeare

“True it is that we have seen better days.”
- William Shakespeare, As You Like It (1564-1616)

Seneca

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
- Seneca

C. S. Lewis

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid...
- C. S. Lewis

Tao Te Ching

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick, then you can move toward health.
- Tao Te Ching

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Steve Schmidt

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.
- Steve Schmidt

Buddha

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
- Buddha

Mark Twain

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain