"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain." -Mark Twain
"A company has no body to kick and no soul to damn, and by God,it ought to have both." -Lord Chancellor Thurlow
"All is to be doubted." -René Descartes
"Always do right. This will gratify some and astonish the rest." -- Mark Twain
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
"Be sorry for nothing, and thankful for everything."
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." -Plato from The Republic
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." --Mark Twain
"Common sense is not so common." -Voltaire
"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the voice at the end of the day saying: I will try again tomorrow."
"Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements." -Zephram Cochran, inventor of the first warp drive starship.
"dubito ergo cogito: cogito ergo sum."
"I doubt,therefore I think : I think,therefore I am."
-René Descartes
"Even if you are in a minority of one, the truth is still the truth" -- Gandhi
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” -- Gandhi
"Every man dies; not every man really lives." -William Wallace
"Excellance is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible."
"Fear is the path of the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate......leads to suffering." -Master Yoda
"Figures don't lie, liars figure." -historian Andrew Lang
"For many a fellow is so hard of heart, he cannot weep, for all his inward smart."
"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." - Aristotle
"God grants liberty only to those who love it, who are always ready to guard and defend it." -- Patrick Henry
"Good judgement comes from bad experiences, and most of that comes from bad judgement".
"Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but sail we must, and not drift, nor lay at anchor." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
" I am the wisest man in Athens because I know I don't know. I am only singularly ignorant. The rest of the citizens are twice as ignorant. They think they know, but they still don't know." -Plato from The Republic
"I ask, Sir, what is a militia? Is it the whole people? To disarm them would be the easiest, most efficient way to enslave them." -Mason
"If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion." -George Bernard Shaw
"If a person is living out his destiny, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." -The Alchemist
"If food is the prose of a party, then lights are its poetry." -Allison Perrish, from Meet Joe Black
"If man cannot look evil in the face without illusion he will never know what it really is, or combat it effectually" -George Bernard Shaw
"If weak appear strong; if strong appear weak." -Heston
"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something" - Jackie Mason
" I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning." - Plato from The Republic
"I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much." -Napoleon
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -Mark Twain
"I invented the internet, and I can take it away." -Al Gore
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -Albert Einstein
"In a company of heroes, only a Titan stands tall" -Anonymous
"Integrity is a choice. It is consistently choosing the purity of truth over popularity."
"In war, if you are not able to beat your enemy at his own game, it is nearly always better to adopt some striking variant..." -Winston Churchill, 1916
"It is the devil's own land for it is hell all through." -General Bourgonge, Russia 1812
"It's not worth living if you can't feel alive." -Tomorrow Never Dies
"It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learned to dance."
"I would rather be the widow of a brave and honorable man than the wife of a coward." -Georgia Governor John M. Slanton's wife talking about the pardoning of Leo Frank on June 20, 1915
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -Mark Twain
"Knowledge is a powerful and mighty, mighty weapon." -Denmark Vesey
"Listen to the calling of your heart and the true riches of life will follow."
"Looking ahead is part of the challenge of living" -Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
"Morality can be maintained without religion." -George Washington
"Muhammad's women found themselves, on the one hand, deprived of personal liberty, and on the other hand, raised to a position of honor and dignity." -Historian Nabia Abbott
"Nice words and a gun always get more than just nice words." -Al Capone
"No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings." -William Blake
"Nobody ever said it had to make any sense." -Anonymous government employee
"No man can serve two masters." -Christ
"None of life's relationships are more pure than that between a boy and his first dog." -Aaron Fraser Pass
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent" -Eleanor Roosevelt
"One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them." -Lord of the Rings
"One should hold fast to one's heart; for when one lets it go, how quickly does one's head run away!" -Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche
"Only he is lost who gives himself up for lost." -Anonymous
"Our virtues lie in the interpretation of time. " -- William Shakespeare, Coriolanus lV, vii
"Patience is passion famed."
"Perhaps man's history is simpler than we think. It is summed up in proclaiming the right and doing the wrong" -Clemenceau
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." -Lord John Acton, 1887
"Praise the beautiful for their intelligence, and the intelligent for their beauty" -- Casanova's credo
"Radix malorum est cupiditas" "Greed is the root of all evil." -Geoffrey Chaucer
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistant one." -Albert Einstein
"Seek out your enemy ! Do not ask how strong the enemy is, but where he is to be found." -Motto of the Soviet fighter pilots.
"Show me your friends and I will tell you who you are" -unknown
"Some grief shows much of love; but much of grief shows still some want of wit." -Lady Capulet, Romeo and Juliet
"Some of those who live deserve death, and some who are dead deserve life." -Gandalf
"Sometimes getting the job done requires pissing people off." -Colin Powell
"Tell me of your dreams, and I will tell you about your inner self." -Pfaff
"The fount of manhood has its source in boyhood" -- Anonymous
"The larger the island of knowledge, the larger the shoreline of wonder."
"The most important thing for a young fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock" -- Colonel Werner Moelders
"The only thing we need to fear is fear itself." -Franklin Roosevelt
"The optimum population, is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one- ninth above." -Mustapa Mond, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
"The parent who leaves his son enormous wealth generally deadens the talents and energies of the son, and tempts him to lead a less useful and less worthy life than he otherwise would." -Andrew Carnegie
"The social man only knows how to live in the opinion of others." -Rousseau
"The sterner the challenge to man, the finer the response" -Arnold Toynbee
"The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave" - General Douglas MacArthur
"The worst mistake in the history of the human race." -Anthropologist Jared Diamond speaking about agriculture
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." - Western Union internal memo,1876
"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held it's ground" -
"To my mind, the only immortality is the memory we leave behind in the eyes of men. Everything on earth is soon forgotten except the opinion we leave imprinted on history." -Napoleon
"Unless you try to do something beyond that which you have already mastered, you will never grow."
"Vison is the gift to see what others only dream."
"War is not exactly life insurance" -Colonel Hans-Ulrich Rudel
"Wasn't it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wondering around in a wonderful adventure." -Sophie Amundsen
"We cannot change yesterday. We can only make the most of today, and look with hope to tomorrow."
"What a story my life has been." -Napoleon
"What she did was to make me see that capitalism is not only efficient and practical, but also moral." -Federal Reserve Board Chairman, Alan Greenspan commenting on the anti-communist writer Ayn Rand
"What we can easily see is only a small percentage of what is possible. Imagination is hauing the vision to see what is just below the surface; to picture that which is essential, but invisible to the eye."
"When the work of interpretation has been completed, we preceive that a dream is the fulfilment of a wish." -Sigmund Freud, exerpeted from The Interpretation of Dreams
"Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image." -Genesis 9:6
"Winners never quit and quitters never win."
"Your eyes show the strength of your soul." -The Alchemist
"You will come to an end through killing one another." -Shaka, Zulu leader