It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. (Anne Tyler)
Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness. (Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky)
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves. (Logan Pearsall Smith)
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half-especially if he has a teenage daughter. (Guy Albert Lombardo)
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. (Aristotle)
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. (Will Cuppy)
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth. (John Stuart Mill)
If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants. Whose fault is that Not really McCarthy's. He didn't create this situation of fear. He merely exploited it, and rather successfully. (Edward R. Murrow)
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. (H. Jackson Browne)
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. (Mark Twain)
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. (Eugene McCarthy)
To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them. (Charles Buxton)
We cannot destroy kindred Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break. (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal)
I am a man I hold that nothing human is alien to me. (Terence)
An optimist is the human personification of spring. (Susan J. Bissonette)
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. (Oscar Wilde)
The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind. (Albert Camus)
'These are days you'll remember.' If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. (Christine Todd)
If someone cheats you, get your money back. If someone slanders you, call him to account. If someone makes a promise, see that it is kept If you have to be a pest, then be one, and be proud of it. (Donald G. Smith)
Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns. (Anon.)