It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. (Alan Alda)
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity. (John Brown)
The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. (Edmund Burke)
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow. (Harriet Martineau)
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. (William Ellery Channing)
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear. (John C. Dvorak)
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. (Robert Byrne)
One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again. (Judith Viorst)
An attempt is already underway to revise history-to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in. (John J. Sirica)
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable. (Laurence J. Peter)
What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee. (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)
Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. (Ovid)
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. (Willa Cather)
Continental people have sex-lives the English have hot-water bottles. (George Mikes)
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. (Bertrand Russell)
A friend is somebody you want to be around when you feel like being by yourself. (Barbara Burrow)
Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours. (Henry David Thoreau)
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. (Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson)
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. (Diane Ackerman)
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive. (Robert A. Heinlein)