Pearl S. Buck

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
- Pearl S. Buck

Jane Austen

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1775 - 1817)

Jeph Jacques

"There are two ways to pass a hurdle: leaping over or plowing through... There needs to be a monster truck option."
- Jeph Jacques

G. K. Chesterton

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people."
- G. K. Chesterton

Albert Camus

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
- Albert Camus

Edward Hoagland

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.
- Edward Hoagland

Joseph Campbell

If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell

Karl Albrecht

If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is.
- Karl Albrecht

George Carlin

"Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong."
- George Carlin

Barbara Ehrenreich

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
- Barbara Ehrenreich

John Zimmerman

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.
- John Zimmerman

Chuang Tzu

The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?
- Chuang Tzu

Scott Adams

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
- Scott Adams

Samuel Johnson

Love is only one of many passions.
- Samuel Johnson

Michel de Montaigne

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
- Michel de Montaigne

Scott Nearing

"A person is not old until regrets take the place of hopes and plans. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for aging."
- Scott Nearing

Friedrich Nietzsche

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Herm Albright

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright

A. P. Gouthey

Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
- A. P. Gouthey

Roald Dahl

“And Charlie, don't forget about what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after.”
- Roald Dahl (1996 - 1990)

J. B. Priestley

“A good holiday is one that is spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.”
- J. B. Priestley

Eugene McCarthy

"It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember."
- Eugene McCarthy

W.C. Fields

I exercise extreme self control. I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.
- W.C. Fields

John Dryden

Success doesnt come to you, you go to it.
- John Dryden

Margaret Mead

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.
- Margaret Mead

Isaac Asimov

Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers.
- Isaac Asimov

French Proverb

We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
- French Proverb

Kedar Joshi

Man's greatest battle is being a true philosopher.
- Kedar Joshi

Clark Moustakas

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself -- where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
- Clark Moustakas

Mark Twain

“The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.”
- Mark Twain