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

Doug Horton, in Altruism and Cynicism

I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.

Haldane, in Vice and Virtue and Vice and Virtue

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harms way.

John Paul Jones, in War and Peace

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Christian Nevell Bovee, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.

Doug Horton, in Vice and Virtue

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

Thomas Alva Edison, in Work and Recreation

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts, in Life and Death

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

Stephen Hawking, in Science and Religion

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick, in Science and Religion

The great question -- which I have not been able to answer -- is, "What does a woman want?"

Sigmund Freud, in Men and Women

Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Unknown, (sometimes, almost certainly incorrectly, attributed to the Buddha), in Life and Death

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

Werner von Braun, in Success and Failure

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

Albert Camus, in Work and Recreation

I hate quotations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Happiness and Misery

I live for books.

Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination

Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon, XCIV, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I think, therefore I am.

René Descartes, in Science and Religion