Louis Armstrong

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!
- Louis Armstrong

Norman Mailer

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.
- Norman Mailer

Herodotus

The destiny of man is in his own soul
- Herodotus

H. L. Mencken

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
- H. L. Mencken

Brian Tracy

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
- Brian Tracy

C. S. Lewis

Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
- C. S. Lewis

Ambrose Bierce

Orthography: The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.
- Ambrose Bierce

Victor Hugo

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
- Victor Hugo

Isaac Asimov

The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.
- Isaac Asimov

Lewis Carroll

Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll

Edward Gibbon

“He should be endowed with an active, indefatigable vigor of mind and body, which can… support, with a careless smile, every hardship of the road, the weather, or the inn.”
- Edward Gibbon

Gore Vidal

"Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either."
- Gore Vidal

Anonymous

Speak in anger and you'll give the greatest speech you'll ever regret.
- Anonymous

Philip G. Hamerton

"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"
- Philip G. Hamerton

Bernard M. Baruch

"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."
- Bernard M. Baruch

R. A. Butler

"In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves."
- R. A. Butler

Chilo

"The three things most difficult are: to keep a secret, to forget an injury, and to make good use of leisure."
- Chilo

Peter F. Drucker

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
- Peter F. Drucker

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)

Pablo Picasso

"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."
- Pablo Picasso

The Dalia Lama

The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.
- The Dalia Lama

Zen

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
- Zen

George Washington

"There is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness."
- George Washington

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Henry David Thoreau

“Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.”
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Phillips Brooks

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
- Phillips Brooks

George Farquhar

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
- George Farquhar

William Shakespeare

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

William James

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
- William James

Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein

Mark Twain

...it must be intensely annoying to the spirit of a defunct warrior to know that, after having laid down his life for fame, his name has been misspelt in the papers.
- Mark Twain