George Bernard Shaw
sitemanagerThe power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
C.S. Lewis
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn. My God do you learn.
Rodney Dangerfield
I'm at an age where I think more about food than sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.
Laurence Peter
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Emily Dickinson
Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it…
Rush Limbaugh
The thing we all have to understand to put these last two years in focus, is that liberals in this country care more about whether European leaders like us than…
Barbara Tober
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
Henry Ward Beecher
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some…
Oscar Wilde
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
Oscar Wilde
The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
George W. Bush
Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
William Shakespeare
Such men as he be never at heart's ease whiles they behold a greater than themselves, and therefore are they very dangerous.
Aldous Huxley
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane…
Jesse Jackson
Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer, but imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
Martin Luther King Jr.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Theodore Roosevelt
We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall…
Mahatma Gandhi
Civilization is the encouragement of differences. Civilization thus becomes a synonym of democracy. Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, is both uncivilized and undemocratic.
J.R.R. Tolkien
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
Thomas Paine
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When you cease to make a contribution; you begin to die.
Laurence Peter
Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Albert Einstein
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Pablo Picasso
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Woodrow Wilson
Never murder a man who is committing suicide.
Andrew Carnegie
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Bill Cosby
A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
W. Somerset Maugham
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
Bruce Lee
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A hero is no braver than an ordinary person, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Charles Caleb Colton
The greatest friend of Truth is time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion Humility.
Isaac Newton
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
P.J. O’Rourke
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
Ronald Reagan
Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem.
Leonardo da Vinci
Once you have flown, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been, and there you long to return
Tacitus
All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Life is to entered upon with courage.
Margaret Thatcher
On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.
Andre Gide
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Frank Tyger
Wise men argue causes, and fools decide them.
George Patton
It is the unconquerable nature of man and not the nature of the weapon he uses that ensures victory.
Fran Lebowitz
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
John Adams
Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
Terry Pratchett
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Thomas Edison
What a man's mind can create, man's character can control.
Jack Handey
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
Thomas Edison
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Bob Dylan
Money doesn't talk, it swears.
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Bruce Lee
You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can crash, drip, flow...be water my friend.
Martin Luther King Jr.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Marcus Aurelius
The wise man learns more from the fool than the fool learns from the wise man.
Ayn Rand
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.
George Patton
I am a soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Edmund Burke
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and…
Ambrose Bierce
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
Euripides
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
T.S. Eliot
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
Margaret Mead
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
C.S. Lewis
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Kurt Vonnegut
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge…
Carl Jung
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Benjamin Franklin
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Author Unknown
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.
Henry Kissinger
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
Dave Barry
''Look closely at Central America, and try to imagine what would happen if this vital region were to fall into Communist hands. What would happen is a lot of Communists…
Mark Twain
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Marlon Brando
If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.
Kenneth Millar
Nothing is wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Tacitus
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Adolf Hitler
How lucky for those in power that people don't think.
Bruce Willis
It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.
Dorothy Parker
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Oscar Wilde
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Thomas Jefferson
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Winston Churchill
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never…