Stephen Leacock

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
- Stephen Leacock

Mignon McLaughlin

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
- Mignon McLaughlin

Winston Churchill

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
- Winston Churchill

Tao Te Ching

The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world.
- Tao Te Ching

Francis H. Bradley

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
- Francis H. Bradley

Alphonse De Lamartine

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
- Alphonse De Lamartine

Buddha

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
- Buddha

English Proverb

Advice is least heeded when most needed.
- English Proverb

Carl Lewis

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
- Carl Lewis

Aristotle

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
- Aristotle

Samuel Butler

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
- Samuel Butler

Wolfgang Pauli

"This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."
- Wolfgang Pauli

Ulysses Simpson Grant

My failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.
- Ulysses Simpson Grant

Mitch Hedberg

"I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle."
- Mitch Hedberg

Patch Adams

When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been.
- Patch Adams

Albert Einstein

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein

Fanny Burney

“Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building after seeing Italy.”
- Fanny Burney

Miguel de Cervantes

"Facts are the enemy of truth."
- Miguel de Cervantes

Carl Jung

"We must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life, that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts."
- Carl Jung

Terry Pratchett

“In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded. ”
- Terry Pratchett (1948 -)

Emily Dickinson

For Love is Immortality.
- Emily Dickinson

Ever Garrison

Skin is a covering for our immortality.
- Ever Garrison

Ronnie D. Laing

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
- Ronnie D. Laing

Norman Vincent Peale

"Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."
- Norman Vincent Peale

John Gay

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.
- John Gay

Douglas Adams

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws."
- Douglas Adams

William James

Pragmatism asks its usual question. 'Grant an idea or belief to be true,' it says, 'what concrete difference will its being true make in anyones actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truths cash-value in experiential terms?'
- William James

Oscar Wilde

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
- Oscar Wilde

Mark Twain

There are those who scoff at the school boy, calling him frivolous and shallow. Yet it was the school boy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
- Mark Twain