Galileo Galilei

 All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. 

- Galileo Galilei

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

Henny Youngman

 You have a nice personality, but not for a human being. 

- Henny Youngman

Thomas Jefferson

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. 

- Thomas Jefferson

Harvey Fierstein

 Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. 

- Harvey Fierstein

Aristotle

 Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. 

- Aristotle

Mark Twain

 Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. 

- Mark Twain

Henry Kissinger

 The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. 

- Henry Kissinger

Liam Neeson

 A sex symbol? A symbol of sex? I don't think that I am a sex symbol, although it's very flattering. I'm 59, now, so I think I'm possibly past my sell-by date. I think I am. 

- Liam Neeson

Ernest Hemingway

 I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. 

- Ernest Hemingway

Abraham Lincoln

 No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. 

- Abraham Lincoln

Horace

 Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. 

- Horace

Zsa Zsa Gabor

 I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane. 

- Zsa Zsa Gabor

Billy Connolly

 My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger. 

- Billy Connolly

John Lennon

 Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. 

- John Lennon