In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. - Anne Frank
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. - Shakespeare: Henry VI, Part 2, act 2
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. - Jewish proverb
Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out. - Dr. Karl A. Menninger
After all, even a politician is human. - Mike Mansfield
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. - Abraham Maslow
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. - Andrew Jackson.
The best measure of a woman's honesty is the zero adjust on her bathroom scale. - Unknown
Democracy substitutes election by the imcompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.* - George Bernard Shaw
If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul. - The Koran
A man is not finished when he's defeated; he's finished when he quits. - Richard Nixon
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw
If you don't run your own life, someone else will. - John Atkinson
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. - Beethoven
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even where there are no rivers. - Nikita Khrushchev
Looking back upon any period of our career, we can safely say: What a fool I was! - Paul Eldridge
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. - Thomas Carlyle
Two friends playing together. And love is when you like to play when he wants to and you may not want to. - David Wilson, age 7
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met. - Abraham Lincoln
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him. - Charles de Gaulle
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. - E. W. Howe
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. - William Saroyan
'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it. - W. C. Fields
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. - Thomas Jefferson
I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket. - Lyndon Baines Johnson
It's inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office. - H. L. Mencken
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. - Czech Proverb
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. - Leo Buscaglia
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. - Edward Langley
Law is a bottomless pit. - John Arbuthnot
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. - Charles Lamb
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office. - Robert Frost
Who seeks a faultless friend remains friendless. - Turkish Proverb
I'm in a phone booth at the corner of Walk and Don't Walk. - Unknown
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know. - Mark Twain
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell
More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. - Woody Allen
Nature has given us two ears, but only one mouth. - Benjamin Disraeli
The future isn't what it used to be. - Variously ascribed
It takes time and a kind of power in oneself to know another, just as it does to get anywhere in one of the crafts. - Sherwood Anderson
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. - John F. Kennedy
No one is more confusing than someone who gives good advice while setting a bad example. - Unknown
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. - Benjamin Franklin
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. - Joseph F. Newton
I hate Monday. It is a crabbed, nasty, overcooked, strangled sort of day, all out of balance, like a fool trying to stand on one leg. - J. B. Morton
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. - Mark Twain
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. - Katerine Mansfield