Virgil

"Fortune sides with him who dares."
- Virgil

C. S. Lewis

Nothing is yet in its true form.
- C. S. Lewis

Henri B. Stendhal

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.
- Henri B. Stendhal

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Enjoy the spring of love and youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year’s nest.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Joseph Joubert

They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
- Joseph Joubert

Henry Wheeler Shaw

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw

Henry Adams

"There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence."
- Henry Adams

Author Unknown

Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole.
- Author Unknown

Mignon McLauglin

"For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance."
- Mignon McLauglin

Albert Einstein

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein

Friedrich Nietzsche

"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Rabbi Julius Gordon

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
- Rabbi Julius Gordon

Jerome K. Jerome

"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."
- Jerome K. Jerome

Joshua Loth Liebman

Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.
- Joshua Loth Liebman

Woody Allen

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans.
- Woody Allen

Colette

“The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.”
- Colette

David Broder

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
- David Broder

Groucho Marx

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx

William James

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
- William James (1842 - 1910)

Homer Simpson

Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.
- Homer Simpson

Steve Young

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
- Steve Young

Conrad Hilton

"Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
- Conrad Hilton

Ambrose Bierce

Politics: The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
- Ambrose Bierce

Johannes Kepler

I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.
- Johannes Kepler

Kyle Samuel Crichton

"Life’s a pretty precious and wonderful thing. You can’t sit down and let it lap around you...you have to plunge into it; you have to dive through it! And you can’t save it, you can’t store it up; you can’t horde it in a vault. You’ve got to taste it; you’ve got to use it. The more you use the more you have...that’s the miracle of it!"
- Kyle Samuel Crichton

Oscar Wilde

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.
- Oscar Wilde

Winston Churchill

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
- Winston Churchill

Niccolo Machiavelli

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Berthold Auerbach

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Berthold Auerbach

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Mark Twain

It is more satisfactory to be pretty than right.
- Mark Twain