Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. - John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint. - Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The luxury of doing good surpasses every other personal enjoyment. - John Gay (1685-1732)
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. - Daniel Defoe (1661-1731)
A man who is a genius and doesn't know it probably isn't. - Stanislaus J. Lec (b. 1909)
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot (1819-1880)
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book. - Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. - Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. - Feodor Dostoievski (1821-1881)
If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. - Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755)
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. - Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others. - William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. - Henri Amiel (1821-1881)
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. - Henry B. Adams (1838-1918)
Philosophy -- Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. - Henry B. Adams (1838-1918)
Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it. - Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. - Henry Ford (1863-1947)
There can't be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. - Henry Kissinger (b. 1923)
And so we plow along, as the fly said to the ox. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. A fine example was the Prodigal Son -- when he started back home. - O. Henry (1862-1910)
A man never knows what a fool he is until he hears himself imitated by one. - Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1853-1917)
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him. - Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)
Seldom any splendid story is wholly true. - Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana (1863-1952)
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. - Karl Marx (1818-1883)
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know. - Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)
The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. - Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness. - Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves. - Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
Man has his will, but woman has her way. - Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. - Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. - William Morris (1834-1896)
There's one way to find out if a man is honest -- ask him. If he says "yes," you know he is crooked. - Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. - Ed (E. W.) Howe (1853-1937)
A pessimist is one who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. - Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. - Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
If at first you do succeed, don't take any more chances. - Kin (F. McKinney) Hubbard (1868-1930)
An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed. - Kin (F. McKinney) Hubbard (1868-1930)
When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money. - Kin (F. McKinney) Hubbard (1868-1930)
Why doesn't the fellow who says, "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration. - Kin (F. McKinney) Hubbard (1868-1930)
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. - Kin (F. McKinney) Hubbard (1868-1930)
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. - Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
An idealist is a man who looks at a rose, and thinks, because it smells sweet, it will make better soup than a cabbage. - H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. - Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. - Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)
A loafer always has the correct time. - Kin (F. McKinney) Hubbard (1868-1930)
The peaceable part of mankind will be continually overrun by the vile and abandoned while they are neglected the means of self-defense. ---Thomas Paine
Weakness allures the ruffian but arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world...Horrid mischief would ensue were (peaceable citizens) deprived of the use of them. ---Thomas Paine