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Getting Ahead In A Difficult Profession Requires Avid Faith In Yourself. That Is Why Some People With Mediocre Talent, But With Great Inner Drive, Go Much Further Than People With Vastly Superior Talent.

- Sophia Loren

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I Believe That Uncertainty Is Really My Spirit’s Way Of Whispering, I’m In Flux. I Can’t Decide For You. Something Is Off-Balance Here.

- Oprah Winfrey

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It Is A Sadness Of Growing Older That We Lose Our Ardent Appreciation Of What Is New And Different And Difficult.

- Elizabeth Aston

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If We Are Going To Teach Creation Science As An Alternative To Evolution, Then We Should Also Teach The Stork Theory As An Alternative To Biological Reproduction.

- Judith Hayes

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Too Many Have Dispensed With Generosity In Order To Practice Charity.

- Albert Camus

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Bore, N.: A Person Who Talks When You Wish Him To Listen.

- Ambrose Bierce

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What Seems To Be Generosity Is Often No More Than Disguised Ambition, Which Overlooks A Small Interest In Order To Secure A Great One.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I Have Enjoyed Greatly The Second Blooming… Suddenly You Find – At The Age Of 50, Say – That A Whole New Life Has Opened Before You.

- Agatha Christie

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The Real Hero Is Always A Hero By Mistake; He Dreams Of Being An Honest Coward Like Everybody Else.

- Umberto Eco

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When You Close Your Doors, And Make Darkness Within, Remember Never To Say That You Are Alone, For You Are Not Alone; Nay, God Is Within, And Your Genius Is Within. And What Need Have They Of Light To See What You Are Doing?

- Epictetus

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The Excellence Of A Gift Lies In Its Appropriateness Rather Than In Its Value.

- Charles Dudley Warner

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My Own Business Always Bores Me To Death; I Prefer Other People’s.

- Oscar Wilde

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There Are Always Survivors At A Massacre. Among The Victors, If Nowhere Else.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

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You Clench Your Teeth. You Look Up. You Tell Yourself That If They See You Cry, It Will Hurt Them, And You Will Be Nothing But A Sadness In Their Lives, And You Must Not Become A Mere Sadness, So You Will Not Cry, And You Say All Of This To Yourself While Looking Up At The Ceiling, And Then You Swallow Even Though Your Throat Does Not Want To Close And You Look At The Person Who Loves You And Smile.

- Unknown

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Books Won’t Stay Banned. They Won’t Burn. Ideas Won’t Go To Jail. In The Long Run Of History, The Censor And The Inquisitor Have Always Lost. The Only Sure Weapon Against Bad Ideas Is Better Ideas. The Source Of Better Ideas Is Wisdom. The Surest Path To Wisdom Is A Liberal Education.

- Whitney Griswold

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Speak Properly, And In As Few Words As You Can, But Always Plainly; For The End Of Speech Is Not Ostentation, But To Be Understood.

- William Penn

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All Successful Newspapers Are Ceaselessly Querulous And Bellicose. They Never Defend Anyone Or Anything If They Can Help It; If The Job Is Forced On Them, They Tackle It By Denouncing Someone Or Something Else.

- H. L. Mencken

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The Covers Of This Book Are Too Far Apart.

- Ambrose Bierce

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What A Good Thing Adam Had. When He Said A Good Thing He Knew Nobody Had Said It Before.

- Mark Twain

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Not Only Is The Universe Stranger Than We Imagine, It Is Stranger Than We Can Imagine.

- Sir Arthur Eddington

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People Demand Freedom Of Speech As A Compensation For The Freedom Of Thought Which They Seldom Use.

- Soren Kierkegaard

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If We Cannot End Now Our Differences, At Least We Can Help Make The World Safe For Diversity.

- John F. Kennedy

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It Was Wonderful To Find America, But It Would Have Been More Wonderful To Miss It.

- Mark Twain

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You’re At The Zoo, You Have A Popsicle, How Can You Be Unhappy?

- Dewey, Malcolm in the Middle

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You Can’t Make A Life-Altering Decision For Someone Else And Expect It To Stick.

- Unknown

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A Woman Impudent And Mannish Grown Is Not More Loathed Than An Effeminate Man In Time Of Action.

- William Shakespeare

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The Great Thing About Democracy Is That It Gives Every Voter A Chance To Do Something Stupid.

- Art Spander

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Iron Rusts From Disuse; Stagnant Water Loses Its Purity And In Cold Weather Becomes Frozen; Even So Does Inaction Sap The Vigor Of The Mind.

- Leonardo da Vinci

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A Positive Attitude May Not Solve All Your Problems, But It Will Annoy Enough People To Make It Worth The Effort.

- Herm Albright

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Everybody Lies, But It Doesn’t Matter Because Nobody Listens.

- Nick Diamos

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The Greatest Mistake You Can Make In Life Is To Be Continually Fearing You Will Make One.

- Elbert Hubbard

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Never Advise Anyone To Go To War Or To Marry.

- Spanish Proverb

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When Dealing With The Insane, The Best Method Is To Pretend To Be Sane.

- Hermann Hesse

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When We Try To Pick Out Anything By Itself, We Find It Hitched To Everything Else In The Universe.

- John Muir

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There Is No Better Deliverance From The World Than Through Art; And A Man Can Form No Surer Bond With It Than Through Art.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It Is Only In Your Mind That You Have To Excel, At Anything Or Everything. Of Course, It Would Be Very Nice To Excel At Most Things. Indeed, We Recommend That You Try And Do Your Best. But Realistically, You Are Entitled To Do The Bare Minimum To Get By. All Your Accomplishments Are Just A Bonus, Something To Enjoy, Not Requirements. You Don’t Have To Do Anything To Prove That You Are Worthy Of Existing.

- Unknown

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The talkers aren’t strong; the strong don’t talk.

- Burmese

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Your Manuscript Is Both Good And Original, But The Part That Is Good Is Not Original And The Part That Is Original Is Not Good.

- Samuel Johnson

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Necessity Is The Plea For Every Infringement Of Human Freedom. It Is The Argument Of Tyrants; It Is The Creed Of Slaves.

- William Pitt

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Many Would Be Cowards If They Had Courage Enough.

- Thomas Fuller

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The Trouble With Jogging Is That The Ice Falls Out Of Your Glass.

- Martin Mull

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Dangerous Is Wrath Concealed. Hatred Proclaimed Doth Lose Its Chance Of Wreaking Vengeance.

- Seneca

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Much Speech Is One Thing, Well-Timed Speech Is Another.

- Sophocles

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Man Is Asked To Make Of Himself What He Is Supposed To Become To Fulfill His Destiny.

- Paul Tillich

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Politics Is The Art Of Looking For Trouble, Finding It Whether It Exists Or Not, Diagnosing It Incorrectly, And Applying The Wrong Remedy.

- Ernest Benn

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However Difficult It Is To Be The Homely Friend Of A Reputed Beauty, There Are Certain Benefits. Most Days, The Humiliation Of Being The Second Choice Is Outweighed By The Overflow Of Disappointed Gentlemen.

- Laura Moncur

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