Thomas Alva Edison

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Unknown

By the time a man realises that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Mark Twain

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

William Shakespeare

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

David Foster Wallace

If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

Kurt Vonnegut

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

Grace Hopper

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

Elbert Hubbard

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Timmy Turner - "The Fairly OddParents" (2001)

I don't believe in luck but I do subscribe to the theory of horribly inconvenient coincidences.

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Morton Kelsey

The church is not a museum for saints but a hospital for sinners.

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

George Carlin (1937-2008)

Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mae West

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Albert Camus

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Demetri Martin

This is very autobiographical. This is the cuteness of a girl versus how interested I am in hearing about how intuitive her cat is. You see, the cuter the girl is, the more I'm willing to hear about the cat. Oh really? Yeah, he's very intuitive. But you'll notice, at a certain point, I don't care how cute you are. I don't wanna hear about your fucking cat anymore. I hate your cat. When you leave the room, I try to get it.

Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?

Thomas La Mance

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

John Lennon

You're all geniuses and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

St. Augustine

Love is a great teacher.

Optimus Prime

Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.

Meade MacGuire

Live your life in such a way that those who know you but do not know Christ, will know Christ because they know you.

Sophocles

A lie never lives to be old.

E. B. White

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Eric Schmidt

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

Tacitus

He that fights and runs away,
May turn and fight another day;
But he that is in battle slain,
Will never rise to fight again.

Plato

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

English Proverb

In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.

Abraham Lincoln

We, on our side, are praying to Him to give us victory, because we believe we are right; but those on the other side pray to Him, look for victory, believing they are right. What must He think of us?

Mary Kay Ash

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Sun Tzu

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and of yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.

Martin Buber

A person can't approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

Frank Outlaw

Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

Zora Neale Hurston

Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it doesn't make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

Henry David Thoreau

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Tom Krause

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Alan Cohen

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Rudyard Kipling

You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.

Anne Frank

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Politics have no relation to morals.

Adlai E. Stevenson

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Anonymous

No sane person compares a BMW to a GM and thinks he is smarter because he got a cheaper car.

Unknown

It isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe.