Quotes For You

  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 Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance. - William Shakespeare Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. - Sigmund Freud I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth. - Will Rogers Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. - Samuel Butler An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. - Dwight D. Eisenhower I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. - Laurence J. Peter It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, the...

  Helen Keller When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. --Helen Keller Truth is what stands the test of experience. --Albert Einstein Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. --Samuel Butler Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. --Leo Tolstoy If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. --Oscar Wilde A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. --Emily Dickinson, No. 1333 Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. --William Arthur Ward In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. --Mark Twain To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. --Oliver Wendell Holmes Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie...

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.. -  Charlie Chaplin Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. - Calvin Coolidge Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. - John Russell An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. - G. K. Chesterton Humankind cannot stand very much reality. - T. S. Eliot The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you. - Nancy Astor Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. - Arthur Schopenhauer In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. - Franklin D. Roosevelt Life is like playi...

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. ...