Quotes For You

  Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. - Bertrand Russell Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. - Walt Whitman Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. - Suzanne Necker Every man is the architect of his own fortune. - Sallust Fortune favors the brave. - Virgil, Aeneid We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is better to know some of the quest...

  Image: ChatGPT When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. - Sir Winston Churchill Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour. - Edward M. Kennedy I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us. - Charles de Gaulle Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. - Baltasar Gracian Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal. - Oscar Wilde Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are. - Laurence J. Peter A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld Tact is the ability to describe other...

  A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! - Walt Whitman The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. - Oscar Wilde If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. - Benjamin Franklin I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant. - Ring Lardner The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. - Daniel Webster I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. - Sir Winston Churchill READ MORE

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity - Walt Whitman It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. - Pierre Beaumarchais It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. - Isaac Asimov A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. - George Bernard Shaw It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. - Arthur C. Clarke Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. - Sir Winston Churchill If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. - Carl Sagan Food is our common ground, a universal experience. - James Beard There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. - Booker T. Washington READ MORE NICE

Mark Twain. Photo: American Heritage Trees Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. - Mark Twain I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises. - John F. Kennedy The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. - Arthur C. Clarke Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? - Cicero Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. - Erica Jong There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. - Gore Vidal Never give advice unless asked. - German Proverb Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld In love, one and one are one. - Jean-Paul Sartre Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters. - Samuel Johnson

Ernest Hemingway. Photo: Chicago Tribune That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929 We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678) This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. - Oscar Wilde You don't have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form. - Francis Ford Coppola There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. - Robert Louis Stevenson Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Soren Kierkegaard The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein Art is born of the o...

Frank Zappa (Photo: Newsweek) In the fight between you and the world, back the world. - Frank Zappa What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. - Havelock Ellis All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. - Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912 Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities. - Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010 Never fight an inanimate object. - P. J. O'Rourke Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. - Thomas Jefferson Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. - Thomas Fuller Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. ...

Henry David Thoreau. Photo: Google What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. - Henry David Thoreau The pleasure of love is in loving. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions. - Aristotle The price of greatness is responsibility. - Sir Winston Churchill Crime does not pay ... as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. - Anton Chekhov There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H. L. Mencken Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. - Voltaire Love is an irresistible desir...

The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.  - Francois de La Rochefoucauld