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A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Frederick the Great, in Law and Politics

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert Humphrey, in Success and Failure

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Happiness and Misery

I improve on misquotation.

Cary Grant, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant, in Happiness and Misery

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

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

Cicero, in War and Peace

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

David Lloyd George, in Success and Failure

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson, in Law and Politics

The more you wrestle with a turd, the more shit gets on you.

Shelly Horton, in Success and Failure

I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein, in War and Peace

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillor, in Vice and Virtue

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Law and Politics

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

Ron Leemans, in Work and Recreation

I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.

Werner von Braun, in Success and Failure

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

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.

Doug Horton, in Altruism and Cynicism

We trained hard, but it seemed that everytime we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

Unknown, (sometimes incorrectly attributed to Petronius Arbiter), in Work and Recreation

He who spends his time reading aphorisms of another to have one of his own, has no time or brains to have any of his own.

M. Bernheisel, in Wisdom and Ignorance