Russell Baker

"Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things."
- Russell Baker

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Francis Kilvert

“Of all noxious animals, too, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist.”
- Francis Kilvert

Mary Pickford

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
- Mary Pickford

Theodore Roosevelt

"The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value."
- Theodore Roosevelt

H. L. Mencken

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
- H. L. Mencken

Samuel Johnson

"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble."
- Samuel Johnson

Dame Flora Robson

Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.
- Dame Flora Robson

Charles Saatchi

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.
- Charles Saatchi

Helen Sharman

There is very little difference between men and women in space.
- Helen Sharman

Carl Jung

The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
- Carl Jung

Jean-Baptiste Andre Godin

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.
- Jean-Baptiste Andre Godin

Dorothy Nevill

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
- Dorothy Nevill

Abraham Maslow

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to treat everything as if it were a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

Buddha

He is able who thinks he is able.
- Buddha

Albert Schweitzer

"You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness...There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its most dangerous aspect is that one is unaware of its coming. That is why you have to be careful. As soon as you notice the slightest sign of indifference, the moment you become aware of the loss of a certain seriousness, of longing, of enthusiasm, and zest, take it as a warning. You should realize your soul suffers if you live superficially."
- Albert Schweitzer

Abraham Lincoln

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
- Abraham Lincoln

Matthew Broderick

Having a baby changes the way you view your in laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.
- Matthew Broderick

Oscar Wilde

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
- Oscar Wilde

Charles Yost

Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.
- Charles Yost

Tao Te Ching

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.
- Tao Te Ching

C. S. Lewis

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes...it cuts its own throat.
- C. S. Lewis

George Elliot

Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
- George Elliot

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Henry Chester

"Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence. It is no more or less than faith in action."
- Henry Chester

Swedish Proverb

“Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.”
- Swedish Proverb

George Washington Carver

“To those who have not yet learned the secret of true happiness, begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.”
- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

Herbert George Wells

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- Herbert George Wells

Voltaire

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
- Voltaire

Ambrose Bierce

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

Hubert H. Humphrey

“In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.”
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)

Mark Twain

There's a breed of humility which is itself a species of showing off.
- Mark Twain