Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. (Hippocrates)
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity. (Richard M. Nixon)
Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive. (Dr. Jonas Salk)
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver. (Mark A. Clement)
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life. (Anatole France)
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. (Lyndon B. Johnson)
Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. (Ambrose Gwinett Bierce)
It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter. (Clive Staples Lewis)
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. (E. M. Forster)
I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War (Richard Milhous Nixon)
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. (Bishop Creighton)
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. (Dave Barry)
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh. (Katharine Hepburn)
The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. (Jean Cocteau)
What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk And after you're real drunk, maybe go down to the public park and stagger around and ask people for money, and then lie down and go to sleep. (Jack Handey Deep Thoughts)
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. (Laurence J. Peter)
The covers of this book are too far apart. (Ambrose Bierce)
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. (Aristotle)