Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

 Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Jules Renard

 Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. 

- Jules Renard

Marilyn vos Savant

 Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. 

- Marilyn vos Savant

Ray Bradbury

 You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. 

- Ray Bradbury

Washington Irving

 Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. 

- Washington Irving

William Arthur Ward

 Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them. 

- William Arthur Ward

Og Mandino

 I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars. 

- Og Mandino

Henny Youngman

How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put 'page 2.' 

- Henny Youngman

Mel Gibson

 The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky. 

- Mel Gibson

Ernest Hemingway

 Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. 

- Ernest Hemingway

Fulton J. Sheen

 Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. 

- Fulton J. Sheen

Liam Neeson

 It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race. 

- Liam Neeson

Thor Heyerdahl

 Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity. 

- Thor Heyerdahl

Theodore Roosevelt

 If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. 

- Theodore Roosevelt

Mitch Hedberg

 My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. 

- Mitch Hedberg