The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk. (Alben William Barkley)
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. (Dale Carnegie)
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. (John Mason Brown)
Peter So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life. (Office Space)
The hardest part of any journey is taking that first step. (Unknown)
It citizenship would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other state whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, andwithout obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of the law for which a white man would be punished it citizenship would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the State. (Roger B. Taney)
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. (Marechal Ferdinand Foch)
The best way to predict the future is to create it (Jason Kaufmann)
Excuse me while I kiss the sky. (Jimi Hendrix)
No one wants advice -- only corroboration. (John Steinbeck)
Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. (Dr. Karl Menninger)
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. (Don Barthelme)
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. (Bernard Mannes Baruch)
People just naturally assume that dogs would be incapable of working together on some sort of construction project. But what about just a big field full of holes (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. (Dale Carnegie)
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. (H.L. Mencken)
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future. (Gerald R. Ford)
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. (Samuel Johnson)
An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool. (Sylvia Fine Kaye)
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. (James Agee)