Russell Baker

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
- Russell Baker

Rex Reed

Most of the time he sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.
- Rex Reed

Dr. Smiley Blanton

"The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capabilities to their greatest extent."
- Dr. Smiley Blanton

Albert Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- Albert Einstein

Arthur Frommer

“At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.”
- Arthur Frommer

Chuck Palahniuk

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Dont be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Chinese Proverb

Do not anxiously hope for what is not yet to come; do not vainly regret what is already past.
- Chinese Proverb

Thomas Jefferson

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...
- Thomas Jefferson

Seneca

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
- Seneca

Nelson Goodman

You may decry some of these scruples and protest that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in my philosophy. I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.
- Nelson Goodman

Robert Paul

A new British survey has revealed that 9 out of 10 people like Chocolate. The tenth lies.
- Robert Paul

Erica Jong

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty, and I'll show you a man.
- Erica Jong

Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Eleanor Roosevelt

"When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Gore Vidal

“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.”
- Gore Vidal (1925 -)

Antiphanes

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.
- Antiphanes, ancient Greek dramatist

Richard Paul Evans

"Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were."
- Richard Paul Evans

Bjarne Stronstrup

I have always wished for a computer that would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish came true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
- Bjarne Stronstrup

Ellen DeGeneres

"In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better."
- Ellen DeGeneres

Denis Waitley

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
- Denis Waitley

Anonymous

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
- Anonymous

Edward Albee

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
- Edward Albee

Lord Nelson

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
- Lord Nelson

Charles M. Schulz

"I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time."
- Charles M. Schulz

Charles Kingsley

Beauty is God's handwriting.
- Charles Kingsley

Roger Allen

"In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation."
- Roger Allen

H. L. Mencken

All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.
- H. L. Mencken

Mark Twain

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.
- Mark Twain