Joey Adams

Most people play a fair game of golf - If you watch them.
- Joey Adams

Jonathan Swift

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
- Jonathan Swift

Arthur Bloch

Every clarification breeds new questions.
- Arthur Bloch

Joyce Brothers

"There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it."
- Joyce Brothers

Stephen Grover Cleveland

A man is known by the company he keeps, and also by the company from which he is kept out.
- Stephen Grover Cleveland

W. C. Fields

"Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch."
- W. C. Fields

Willa Cather

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
- Willa Cather

James Carville

"The best time to plant an oak tree was twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today."
- James Carville

Rumi

“Muhammad says,‘Love of one’s country is a part of the faith.’ But don’t take that literally! Your real‘country’ is where you’re heading, not where you are. Don’t misread that hadith.”
- Rumi

De la Lastra

"After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted."
- De la Lastra's Corollary

Charles F. Kettering

Don't be afraid to stumble. Any inventor will tell you that you don't follow a plan far before you strike a snag. If, out of 100 ideas you get one that works, it's enough.
- Charles F. Kettering

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Albert Einstein

"The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life."
- Albert Einstein

Belva Davis

"Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so."
- Belva Davis

Sir Thomas Browne

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.
- Sir Thomas Browne

Niccolo Machiavelli

Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

Russell Hoban

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.
- Russell Hoban

Thomas Edison

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident.... Almost none of my inventions were derived in that manner. They were achieved by having trained myself to be analytical and to endure and tolerate hard work.
- Thomas Edison

Peter Mcwilliams

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
- Peter Mcwilliams

William Shakespeare

“T'is neither here nor there.”
- William Shakespeare, Othello 1564-1616)

Richard Cobden

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.
- Richard Cobden

Earlene Larson Jenks

Have the courage to act instead of react.
- Earlene Larson Jenks

Max Born

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.
- Max Born

P. J. O'Rourke

Bureaucratic time, which is slower than geologic time but more expensive than time spent with Madame Claude's girls in Paris.
- P. J. O'Rourke

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
- Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

Ambrose Bierce

Vote: The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
- Ambrose Bierce

Ernest Hemingway

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened.
- Ernest Hemingway

George E. Vallant

"Hans Selye is wrong; it is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that permits us to live."
- George E. Vallant

Mark Twain

Always avoid violence; in this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined.
- Mark Twain