If you stay in Beverly Hills too long you become a Mercedes. (Robert Redford)
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. (Russell Baker)
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him. (Martin Luther)
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television. (David Letterman)
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well. (A Bartlett Giamatti)
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe. (La Rochefoucauld)
The price of greatness is responsibility. (Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill)
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. (William Butler Yeats)
I'd give Charles Darwin videotapes of 'Geraldo,' 'Beavis and Butt-head' and 'The McLaughlin Group.' I would be interested in seeing if he still believes in evolution. (Dean Koontz)
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. (Albert Camus)
The past is the tomorrow that got away. (Leonard L. Levinson)
Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. (Pearl Bailey)
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity. (Gilda Radner)
We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force... (Louis D. Brandeis)
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth - only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. (Clive Staples Lewis)
Too much of a good thing is wonderful. (Mae West)
A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools. (Danish proverb)
Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom. (William James)
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science. (Gary Zukav)