Aeschylus

"It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish."
- Aeschylus

Al Bundy

Peg, you can stab me with knives, you can beat me with clubs, you can make me open my eyes when we're having sex but there's no way on earth you can make me get a second job.
- Al Bundy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don Herold

I would rather sing grand opera than listen to it.
- Don Herold

William M. Thackeray

There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
- William M. Thackeray

Aristotle

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- Aristotle

Baltasar Gracian

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
- Baltasar Gracian

Jean Cocteau

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.
- Jean Cocteau

Coco Chanel

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
- Coco Chanel

Tao Te Ching

When there is no desire, all things are at peace.
- Tao Te Ching

H. L. Mencken

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
- H. L. Mencken

Homer Simpson

All my life I've had one dream, to achieve my many goals.
- Homer Simpson

William Jennings Bryan

"The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little."
- William Jennings Bryan

Max Planck

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
- Max Planck

Mary Wollstonecraft

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.
- Mary Wollstonecraft

Henri Nouwen

Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
- Henri Nouwen

Christopher Morley

"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning."
- Christopher Morley

Oscar Wilde

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

O. B. Smith

Confidence and enthusiasm are the greatest sales producers in any kind of economy.
- O. B. Smith

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

William Feather

"Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age."
 - William Feather

Douglas Adams

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.”
- Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) (1952 - 2001)

Cat Stevens

Take your time, think a lot, Think of everything you've got. For you will still be here tomorrow But your dreams may not.
- Cat Stevens

Evelyn Waugh

“The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries. But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty;‘we’ are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow.”
- Evelyn Waugh

Lord Byron

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron

David Hume

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous
- David Hume

George Bernard Shaw

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
- George Bernard Shaw

Leonardo da Vinci

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rabindranath Tagore

"You can't cross a sea by merely staring into the water."
- Rabindranath Tagore

Mark Twain

There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.
- Mark Twain