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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.

George Orwell, 1984, in Happiness and Misery

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Work and Recreation

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas Alva Edison, in Work and Recreation

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Science and Religion

Never try to out-stubborn a cat.

Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in Success and Failure

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Robert Frost, in Wealth and Poverty

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus, in Work and Recreation

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

Woody Allen, in Life and Death and Love and Hate

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein, in Vice and Virtue

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Anatole France, in Vice and Virtue

I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.

Albert Einstein, in Life and Death

Life's tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Benjamin Franklin, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Leemans' Law: Junk expands to fill the space allotted.

Ron Leemans, in Work and Recreation

I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.

Cicero, in War and Peace

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George, in Success and Failure

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce, in Success and Failure