Will Rogers

 Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. 

- Will Rogers

Lewis Carroll

 That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day. 

- Lewis Carroll

Daniel Webster

 Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital. 

- Daniel Webster

Aristotle

 A friend to all is a friend to none. 

- Aristotle

Confucius

 The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. 

- Confucius

Steven Wright

 If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you. 

- Steven Wright

Epicurus

 Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. 

- Epicurus

Bill Vaughan

 Muscles come and go; flab lasts. 

- Bill Vaughan

Quintus Ennius

 Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. 

- Quintus Ennius

Norman Cousins

 Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. 

- Norman Cousins

Thomas Aquinas

 Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. 

- Thomas Aquinas

Alexandre Dumas

 How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. 

-  Alexandre Dumas

Thich Nhat Hanh

 Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. 

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Marcus Tullius Cicero

 Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. 

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Elbert Hubbard

 He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. 

- Elbert Hubbard

Kurt Vonnegut

 The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. 

- Kurt Vonnegut

Dale Carnegie

 It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. 

- Dale Carnegie

Charles M. Schulz

 Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. 

- Charles M. Schulz

John Perry Barlow

 Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. 

- John Perry Barlow

Georges Pompidou

 There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. 

- Georges Pompidou

Alfred North Whitehead

 Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. 

- Alfred North Whitehead

Clifford Stoll

 The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. 

- Clifford Stoll

John F. Kennedy

 The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. 

- John F. Kennedy

Stephen Hawking

 Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. 

- Stephen Hawking

Abraham Lincoln

 For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period. 

- Abraham Lincoln

Walter Cronkite

 I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing. 

- Walter Cronkite

Yogi Berra

 Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. 

- Yogi Berra

Arthur Conan Doyle

 My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. 

- Arthur Conan Doyle

Lenny Bruce

 When you're eight years old nothing is your business. 

- Lenny Bruce

George Orwell

 Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. 

- George Orwell

Mark Twain

 The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.' 

- Mark Twain