All the animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
The best careers advice to give to the young is "Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it." - Katharine Whitehorn (b. 1926)
Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down. - Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top. - F. M. Colby (1865-1925)
If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. - Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
The really great man is the man who makes every man feel great. - G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it. - G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. - Will Rogers (1879-1935)
We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could. - William Graham Sumner (1840-1900)
The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. - Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying "The trouble with this country is ..." - Sinclair Lewis (1885-1951)
Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt. - Kin (F. McKinney) Hubbard (1868-1930)
A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece. - Dr. Ludwig Erhard (1897-1977)
Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather. - John Gardner (1933-1982)
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. - Chinese proverb
He who expects much can expect little. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. 1928)
"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude. - Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. - Francois , Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
Educate men without religion and you make them but clever devils. - Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. - Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. - Sir George Savile, Lord Halifax (1633-1695)
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
When a man's education is finished, he is finished. - E. A. Filene (1860-1937)
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don't need it, if you are sick you shouldn't take it. - Henry Ford (1863-1947)
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me. - Italian proverb
Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high. - W. R. Inge (1860-1954)
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. - Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1948)
How could I have been so far off base? All my life I've known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead? - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
Reporting facts is the refuge of those who have no imagination. - Luc , Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715-1747)
A fanataic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noticing them in others. - François , Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
You can run an office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries. - Jane Fonda (b. 1937)
They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. - Thomas B. Reed (1839-1902)
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions. - Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are. - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. - Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every man has a right to knock him down for it. - Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Freedom of speech does not give a person the right to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater. - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - epitome of Voltaire (1694-1778)
I do then with my friends, as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. - Robert Frost (1874-1963)
'Tis money that begets money. - Thomas Fuller (1654-1734)