Roseanne Barr

When my husband comes home, if the kids are still alive, I figure I've done my job.
- Roseanne Barr

D. H. Lawrence

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
- D. H. Lawrence

Kahlil Gibran

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
- Kahlil Gibran

E. V. Lucas

"I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them."
- E. V. Lucas

Noam Chomsky

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate
- Noam Chomsky

M. Cartmill

"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls."
- M. Cartmill

Abraham Lincoln

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
- Abraham Lincoln

Seneca

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
- Seneca

Alan Perlis

"The computing field is always in need of new cliches."
- Alan Perlis

Aitarey Brahmana

“There is no happiness for the man who does not travel. Living in the society of men, the best man becomes a sinner. For Indra is the friend of the traveler. Therefore wander!”
- Aitarey Brahmana

Josh Billings

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
- Josh Billings

Allan K. Chalmers

“The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
- Allan K. Chalmers (1759 - 1834)

Lawrence Clark Powell

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.
- Lawrence Clark Powell

Jose Ortega y Gasset

"Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by an indomitable urge to extend its boundaries."
- Jose Ortega y Gasset

Buddha

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.
- Buddha

Niccolo Machiavelli

He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Theodore Roosevelt

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mignon McLaughlin

A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
- Mignon McLaughlin

C. S. Lewis

I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.
- C. S. Lewis

Stanley Arnold

Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.
- Stanley Arnold

Dorothy L. Sayers

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
- Dorothy L. Sayers

Thomas Edison

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless.
- Thomas Edison

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Luck. Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sigmund Freud

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
- Sigmund Freud

Joey Adams

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
- Joey Adams

William Shakespeare

“Why, then the world's mine oyster.”
- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor. (1564-1616)

Oscar Wilde

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out.
- Oscar Wilde

Mark Twain

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
- Mark Twain