1. Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
    Henry David Thoreau
  2. I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
  3. I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
    George Burns
  4. The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable.
    ~Lane Olinghouse
  5. Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
    Albert Einstein
  6. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
    H. L. Mencken
  7. I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
    Mark Twain
  8. Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
    Warren Buffett
  9. Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
    Oscar Wilde
  10. Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
    Groucho Marx
  11. What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
    Jackie Kennedy
  12. Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
    Will Rogers
  13. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
    Henry David Thoreau
  14. "I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home."
    Bill Clinton
  15. As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!
    Henry David Thoreau
  16. All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
    Ernest Hemingway
  17. Never give in and never give up.
    Hubert H. Humphrey
  18. My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
    Ellen DeGeneres
  19. I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
    Henry David Thoreau
  20. I agree about Shaw--he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.
    William Butler Yates
  21. Our favourite holding period is forever.
    Warren Buffett
  22. In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
    Adlai E. Stevenson
  23. A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
    Henry Ford
  24. Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
    Winston Churchill
  25. A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
    Theodore Roosevelt
  26. For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
    Jimmy Carter
  27. No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
    Henry Kissinger
  28. If at first you don't succeed, redefine "success."
    Holly Van Driel
  29. Valentine's Day is a cruel, evil holiday which exists solely to pour lemon juice on the paper-cut hearts of the unattached.
    Kelly M. O'Donnell
  30. Behind every great man, there is a surprised woman.
    Maryon Pearson
  31. In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club - the 'hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.
    Spiro T. Agnew (about the press, 1970)


    1. Let us do or die.
      Warren Buffett
    2. For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
      Jimmy Carter
    3. Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
      Henry David Thoreau
    4. I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
      Mark Twain
    5. Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
      Winston Churchill
    6. Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.
      Albert Einstein
    7. Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.
      Groucho Marx
    8. Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
      Warren Buffett
    9. Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
      Oscar Wilde
    10. I phoned my father to tell him I had stopped smoking... He called me a quitter
    11. "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."
      Katherine Hepburn
    12. "It is useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office."
      Shirley MacLaine
    13. You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."
      Booker T. Washington
    14. "Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be."
      Kurt Vonnegut
    15. The difficulty in life is the choice.
      George Moore
    16. Love is the distance between reality and pain.
      Robin Hitchcock
    17. Too Little knowledge is a bad thing
      Plato
    18. "All that we see or seen
      Is but a dream within a dream."
      Edgar Allan Poe
    19. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
      Abraham Lincoln
    20. It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
      Albert Einstein
    21. If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
      Winston Churchill
    22. I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority viewpoint-no matter how distasteful to the majority, provided. . .
      Richard M. Nixon
    23. I have a dream... that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
      Martin Luther King Jr., address at the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963
    24. If I feel depressed, I go to work.
      Eleanor Roosevelt
    25. I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.
      Dwight D. Eisenhower
    26. The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
      Henry James
    27. Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
      John D. Rockefeller
    28. For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
      Ernest Hemingway


      1. Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.
        Warren Buffett
      2. I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
        Oscar Wilde
      3. Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
        Warren Buffett
      4. I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
        Ernest Hemingway
      5. I've never let my school interfere with my education.
        Mark Twain
      6. Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
        Jimmy Carter
      7. Don't think of a "F" as failure, think of it as a one-legged "A."
        Jennifer McSorley
      8. "Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare."
        Ed Asner
      9. Do unto others then run like hell.
        Aaron Cohen
      10. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
        Albert Einstein
      11. A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
        William Faulkner
      12. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
        Abraham Lincoln
      13. Humor is reason gone mad.
        Groucho Marx
      14. Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
        Abba Eban
      15. "If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much."
        ...Jackie Kennedy
      16. "My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth."
        ...George Washington
      17. "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies."
        ...Groucho Marx
      18. "Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains."
        ...Dwight D. Eisenhower
      19. "Politics is actually a combination of two words: "poli", which means many, and "tics", which means bloodsuckers."
        ...Jay Leno
      20. I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
        Theodore Roosevelt
      21. All government, of course, is against liberty.
        H. L. Mencken
      22. For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
        Winston Churchill
      23. Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
        George Washington
      24. These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
        Thomas Paine
      25. It can go on and on, or someone must write "The End" to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.
        Gerald R. Ford
      26. Children are our most valuable natural resource.
        Herbert Hoover
      27. A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
      28. How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
        Emily Dickenson
      29. I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
        Colin Powell
      30. Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
        Oscar Wilde
      31. "Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American."
        Bill Clinton