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We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

Will Rogers

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

Al Unser

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Abraham Lincoln

Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Henry Van Dyke

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

Barack Obama

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Betty Friedan

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

Jean Rostand

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Thomas Sowell

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Langston Hughes

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Ansel Adams

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Bill Gates

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.

Robert A. Heinlein

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.

Richard M. DeVos

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

Jonathan Sacks

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Carl Jung

Ideas shape the course of history.

John Maynard Keynes

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

James Thurber

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Miguel de Cervantes

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Lee Iacocca

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Aristotle

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

Lin Yutang

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Francis Bacon

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our incomes are like our shoes if too small, they gall and pinch us but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

John Locke

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Woodrow Wilson

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Anne Stevenson

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

Samuel Beckett

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

Daniel J. Boorstin

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Sophocles

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Paul Sweeney

When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Jonathan Swift

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

Henry David Thoreau

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Winston Churchill

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

George Washington

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Samuel Butler

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Robert Frost

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Ernest Hemingway

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Benjamin Franklin

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

Alanis Morissette

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

Brian Tracy

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

Frank Crane

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Ingrid Bergman

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

Lord Chesterfield

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

Jean Dubuffet

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

Herb Brooks

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Lord John Russell

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Lord Acton

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Coco Chanel

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Larry Bird

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Henry Ward Beecher

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Grover Norquist

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

Marcus Garvey

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

George Eliot

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

Richard M. Nixon

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Confucius

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Henry David Thoreau

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin

Perfection is the child of time.

Joseph Hall

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Benjamin Franklin

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

Jim Harrison

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Theodore Roosevelt

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Jean-Paul Sartre

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Thomas Jefferson

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Tennessee Williams

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

Brigitte Bardot

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

James Madison

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Thomas Szasz

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Karl Kraus

I pray God may preserve your health and life many years.

Junipero Serra

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Stella Adler

Love is the poetry of the senses.

Honore de Balzac

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Andrew Carnegie

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

Peter Marshall

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Lyndon B. Johnson

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

John Updike

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.

Charles R. Swindoll

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Edmund Burke

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cather

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Red Skelton

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

Isabel Allende

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

Henry Rollins

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

Ovid

I think when you're in a relationship where you really care for the other person, when they achieve their dreams it's better than when you do yourself.

Nicole Kidman

Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

William Hazlitt

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Stendhal

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

e. e. cummings

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

Anthony Edwards

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

Catherine the Great

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

William Ellery Channing

America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.

Warren G. Harding

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

Guy Johnson

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Ludwig van Beethoven

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Thomas Carlyle

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Billie Jean King

Go as far as you can see when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

J. P. Morgan

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Alexander Hamilton

A thought is a thing as real as a cannon ball.

Joseph Joubert

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

George Orwell

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Thomas Jefferson

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Lao Tzu

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

Samuel Butler

Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Stephen King

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

Clarence Darrow

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Francis Schaeffer

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

William Shakespeare

The best vision is insight.

Malcolm Forbes

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Brad Thor

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod. My shadow does that much better.

Plutarch

There are only two things a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and its mother's age.

Benjamin Spock

For greed all nature is too little.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

W. Somerset Maugham

The best proof of love is trust.

Joyce Brothers

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Blaise Pascal

War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Niccolo Machiavelli

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

Jimmy Connors

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Henry David Thoreau

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

George McGovern

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Josh Billings

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

Bill Bradley

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeannette Rankin

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

William Shakespeare

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Mario Puzo

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

William James

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Casey Stengel

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

Barbara Bush

The root of materialism is poverty, the well-fed remain idealists.

Karol Bunsch

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Jean Anouilh

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

George Washington

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Vince Lombardi

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Bertrand Russell

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Marcus Aurelius

It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.

Linda Evangelista

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

Antonio Porchia

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Honore de Balzac

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Audrey Hepburn

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

Stephen Hawking

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Max Beerbohm

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

William James

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

Eric Hoffer

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Tennessee Williams

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

Jimmy Carter

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Plato

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

George Washington

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Theodore Roosevelt

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Benjamin Franklin

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.

Henry David Thoreau

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

David Storey

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Mahatma Gandhi

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

Michael LeBoeuf

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Ernest Holmes

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

Josh Billings

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Plato

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Lao Tzu

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Science is all metaphor.

Timothy Leary

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Jim Rohn

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Walt Disney

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

Steven Seagal

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Albert Einstein

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Virginia Woolf

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

George Santayana

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Dante Alighieri

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Rabindranath Tagore

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Harper Lee

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Samuel Johnson

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Andy Warhol

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

Mary Garden

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

Jeremy London

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Wayne Gretzky

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

Bill Owens

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street.

W. H. Auden

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Henry David Thoreau

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