Goethe

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
- Goethe
 

Aesop

It is easy to be brave when far away from danger.
- Aesop

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

Russel Lynes

"Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it."
- Russel Lynes

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Rudyard Kipling

"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves."
- Rudyard Kipling

Tom Stoppard

“Every exit is an entry somewhere else.”
- Tom Stoppard

Albert Einstein

Humanity is going to need a substantially new way of thinking if it is to survive!
- Albert Einstein

Margaret Thatcher

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
- Margaret Thatcher

William Shakespeare

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
- William Shakespeare

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Oscar Wilde

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
- Oscar Wilde

Leo Rosten

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
- Leo Rosten

Mills E. Godwin

“Men of faith know that throughout history the crimes committed in liberty's name have been exceeded only by those committed in God's name.”
- Mills E. Godwin (1914 - 1999)

Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Philip K. Dick

"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane."
- Philip K. Dick

Paul Tillich

"To live means sharing one another’s space, dreams, sorrows, contributing our ears to hear, our eyes to see, our arms to hold, our hearts to love."
- Paul Tillich

Robert Byrne

Partying is such sweet sorrow.
- Robert Byrne

Don Marquis

"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race."
- Don Marquis

Mother Teresa

God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.
- Mother Teresa

William Gibson

"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."
- William Gibson

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

Jacques BeNigne Bossuet

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.
- Jacques BeNigne Bossuet

Homer

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
- Homer

Baltasar Gracian

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
- Baltasar Gracian

Proverb

In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.
- Proverb

Ambrose Bierce

Beauty: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- Ambrose Bierce

Tommy Lasorda

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
- Tommy Lasorda

Tao Te Ching

Knowing how to yield is strength.
- Tao Te Ching

C. S. Lewis

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
- C. S. Lewis

Mark Twain

I take the same childlike delight in a new degree that an Indian takes in a fresh scalp and I take no more pains to conceal my joy than the Indian does.
- Mark Twain