George Moore

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
- George Moore
 

Claude Bernard

"Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge."
- Claude Bernard

Virgil Thomson

"Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not."
- Virgil Thomson

Henry Cate VII

"The problem with political jokes is they get elected."
- Henry Cate VII

Frank Tyger

If you cannot lift the load off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it.
- Frank Tyger

Edmund Wilson

"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."
- Edmund Wilson

Sir Walter Scott

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
- Sir Walter Scott

Frank Zappa

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change peoples minds.
- Frank Zappa

Henry James

"It's time to start living the life you've imagined"
- Henry James

Eugene W. Smith

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
- Eugene W. Smith

Nancy Astor

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.
- Nancy Astor

Chao Chang

Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.
- Chao Chang

Robert Half

Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
- Robert Half

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

George Ade

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
- George Ade 

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

Bertrand Russell

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.”
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Vince Lombardi

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
- Vince Lombardi

Michel De Montaigne

"To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately."
- Michel De Montaigne

Stephen Colbert

I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, and if that fails I curl up like an armadillo.
- Stephen Colbert

Jonathan Swift

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet and Doctor Merryman.
- Jonathan Swift

Tao Te Ching

See the world as your self. Have faith in the way things are. Love the world as your self, then you can care for all things.
- Tao Te Ching

Stephen Vizinczey

"Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it."
- Stephen Vizinczey

C. S. Lewis

Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it.
- C. S. Lewis

Robert Frost

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
- Robert Frost

Thomas Edison

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
- Thomas Edison

Ambrose Bierce

Abscond. To move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
- Ambrose Bierce

Marcus Aurelius

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
- Marcus Aurelius

Thomas Kempis

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.
- Thomas Kempis

Calvin Coolidge

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence...Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
- Calvin Coolidge

Mark Twain

It is better to read the weather forecast before we pray for rain.
- Mark Twain