Thomas Nashe

“A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing.”
- Thomas Nashe

Edmund Burke

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
- Edmund Burke

Erica Jong

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
- Erica Jong

Franklin Pierce

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression, we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.
- Franklin Pierce

Descartes

To be is to do.
- Descartes

Marlene Dietrich

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
- Marlene Dietrich

Victor Borge

"Laughter is the closest distance between two people."
- Victor Borge

Soren Kierkegaard

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
- Soren Kierkegaard

Clement Atlee

"Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."
- Clement Atlee

Charles M. Schulz

“That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another...”
- Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)

Roger Law

I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don't want to see rape, sodomy, and drug addiction. I can get all that at home.
- Roger Law

David Starr Jordan

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
- David Starr Jordan

George Bernard Shaw

"You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."
- George Bernard Shaw

H. L. Mencken

"Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true."
- H. L. Mencken

Mike Singletary

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
- Mike Singletary

Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Grace Allen

(asked how to speak French) You speak it the same way you speak English, you just use different words.
- Grace Allen

Friedrich Nietzsche

Insanity in individuals is something rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Oscar Wilde

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
- Oscar Wilde

H. L. Mencken

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
- H. L. Mencken

Clive Barnes

“Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. ”
- Clive Barnes (1927 - 2007)

Voltaire

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
- Voltaire

Jean Claude Killy

I will always be someone who wants to do better than others. I love competition.
- Jean Claude Killy

Stephen Fry

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.
- Stephen Fry

Edmund Burke

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke

Ambrose Bierce

Opposition: In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
- Ambrose Bierce

Margaret Thatcher

I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.
- Margaret Thatcher

William Shakespeare

“The game is up.”
- William Shakespeare, Cymbeline (1564-1616)

Amy E. Dean

"Tonight I’ll think about what I can mean to my life, not what my life can mean to me."
- Amy E. Dean

Katherine Mansfield

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
- Katherine Mansfield

Mark Twain

“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)