I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. – G. K. Chesterton

Beauty is truth/truth beauty, - that is all/Ye know on earth and all ye need to know. – Keats

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. – Martha Graham

Truth never damages a cause that is just. – Mohandas K. Gandhi

A man’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play. – Friedrich Nietzsche

There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest. – Napoleon

To weep is to make less the depth of grief. – Shakespeare

Some things are better eschewed than chewed – tobacco is one of them. – George Dennison Prentice

Nothing wholly admirable happens in this country except the migration of birds. – Brooks Atkinson

If there were no bad people there would be no good lawyers. – Charles Dickens

Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength. – Eric Hoffer

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. – Jane Austen

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent. – John Haynes Holmes

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one’s virtues. – Antonio Machado

He who considers his work beneath him will be above doing it well. – Alexander Chase

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. – George Bernard Shaw

Our patience will achieve more than our force. – Edmund Burke

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as “robust.” – Gorge Orwell

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry. – John Locke

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. – Booker T. Washington

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. – Samuel Johnson

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. – Francis Bacon

Flattery is all right – if you don’t inhale. – Adlai Stevenson

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves. – John Selden

All babies look like Winston Churchill – Edward R. Morrow

Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far. – Theodore Roosevelt

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. – Soren Kierkegaard

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty. – Norm Crosby

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. – Victor Borge

If there is anything disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out if it. – Jane Austin

The best proof of love is trust. – Dr. Joyce Brothers

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top. – Timothy Leary

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. – Albert Einstein

Of all the forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness. – Bertrand Russell

Getting caught is the mother of invention. – Robert Byrne

Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness. – Lao-tzu

No problem is so formidable that you can’t walk away from it. – Charles Schultz

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. – Henry Ward Beecher

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what he have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. – Albert Pike

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. – Oscar Wilde

Never trust a computer you can’t throw out the window. – Steve Wozniak

The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided. – Casey Stengel

I have made good judgments in the past and I have made good judgments in the future. – Dan Quayle

They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist—(The last words of General John Sedgwick, Union Commander in the Civil War.)

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace. – Martin Luther

Make your words sweet, they taste better when you eat them. – Anonymous

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it’s made in the small ones. – Phillip Brooks

Do not let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do. – John Walden

We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. – Nelson Mandela

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. – Chinese proverb

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men always want to be a woman’s first love; women like to be a man’s last romance. – Oscar Wilde

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. – Thomas Wolf

Generosity is the flower of justice. – Nathanial Hawthorne

No man is good enough to be another man’s master. – George Bernard Shaw

War is not an adventure, it is a disease. – Saint-Exupery

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose. – Lyndon B. Johnson

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live. André Duibus

There are three kinds of lies – lies, damned lies and statistics. – Mark Twain

If misery loves company, misery has company enough. – Henry David Thoreau

Education is the movement from darkness to light. – Allan Bloom

The more things change, the more they remain the same. – Alphonse Karr

Patience is the art of hoping. – Vauvenargues

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it doesn’t go away. – Philip K. Dick

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges. – H. L. Mencken

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense. – Thomas Huxley

Common sense is as rare as genius. – Emerson

He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance. – Ling Po

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. – La Rochefouchauld

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. – Aristotle

Men are born equal but they are also born different. – Erich Fromm

It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. – William Hazlitt

Why do analysts always answer a question with a question? – Erica Jong

It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked. – Warren Buffett

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. – George Santayana

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. – Elsa Schiapirelli

Truth never damages a cause that is just. – Gandhi

Dance is the hidden language of the soul. – Martha Graham

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. – Oscar Wilde

The United States is a nation of laws; badly written and randomly enforced. – Frank Zappa

It is better to live rich than it is to die rich. – Samuel Johnson

If we had no faults, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing them in others. – La Rochefoucadd

Auto racing, bull fighting and mountain climbing are the only real sports – all others are games. – Ernest Hemingway

I have had dreams, and I’ve had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams. – Jonas Salk

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. – Woody Allen

There is nothing permanent except change. – Heraclitus

Baseball is dull only to dull minds. – Red Barber

Love all, trust a few. – William Shakespeare

Laughter is brightest when food is best. – Irish Proverb

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. – Benjamin Franklin

It’s a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. – Albert Einstein

Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. – Aaron Levenstein

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. – Cary Grant

We can’t all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. – Will Rogers

When something is funny, search it for a hidden truth. – George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in adversity. – Plutarch

If you believe everything you read, better not read. – Japanese Proverb

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him. – Francois Mauriac

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. – Will Rogers

Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow, it empties today of strength. – Corrie ten Booom

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. – George Santayana

The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up. – Harold P. McAlindon

A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference. – Pooh's Little Instruction Book

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. – Dean Acheson

He that always give way to others will end in having no principles of his own. – Aesop

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. – Lily Tomlin

The difference between a violin and a viola is that the viola burns longer. – Victor Borge

All words are pegs to hang ideas on. - Henry Ward Beecher

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies. - William Hazlitt

The greatest spirits are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. - Descartes

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man. - G.K. Chesterton

The soldier prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. - Douglas MacArthur

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. - Oscar Wilde

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. - John W. Gardner

Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical. - Yogi Berra

There is no sincerer love than the love of food. - George Bernard Shaw

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. - G.K. Chesterton

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. - Elbert Hubbard

The nose of the mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. - Edgar Allan Poe

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. - Oscar Wilde

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain

The law respects form less than substance. - California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence"

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - Henry Louis Mencken

Never argue with a fool. Listeners can't tell which is which. - Unknown

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. - Jules Renard

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. - Albert Einstein

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. - John Cleese

How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions? - Norman Maclean

You can observe a lot by just watching. - Yogi Berra

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours. - J.B. Priestley

The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as being heard. - William Haslitt

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. - Paul Theroux

A kiss is a rosy dot over the "i" of loving. - Cyrano de Bergerac

Character is power. - Booker T. Washington

We love without reason, and without reason we hate. - Jean-Francois Regnard

What is the hardest task in the world? To think. - Emerson

She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body. - Jonathan Swift

None but the brave deserve the fair. - John Dryden

If you can't explain what you are doing in plain English, you are probably doing something wrong. - Alfred Kahn

Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them. - Ovid

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. - Will Rogers

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. - W. Somerset Maugham

The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. - Mahatma Gandhi

A lot of people like snow. I feel it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. - Carl Reiner

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. - Robert Louis Stevenson

There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons. - Benjamin Franklin

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you. - Adlai Stevenson

Now the New Year reviving old Desires. The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires. - Omar Khayyam

He that knows little often repeats it. - Thomas Fuller

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having. - George Bernard Shaw

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right. - Sir Winston Churchill

Perfection has one grave defect; it is apt to be dull. - W. Somerset Maugham

It's not by amusing oneself that one learns. – Anatole France

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. - Aeschylus

In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. - Swedish proverb

Everything I have is for sale, except for my kids and possibly my wife. - Carl Icahn

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. - Albert Einstein

In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes. - Andy Warhol

To err is human, to forgive divine. - Alexander Pope

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only 'ism' Hollywood believes in is plagiarism. - Dorothy Parker

I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. - Arthur Godfrey

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today. - Herman Wouk

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? - Vince Lombardi

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. - A. A. Milne

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. - George Bernard Shaw

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. - Frank Lloyd Wright

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

If ever two were one, then we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. - Anne Bradstreet