Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

Where there is no imagination there is no Horror.
- Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

Mahatma Gandhi

"In prayer, it is better to have a heart without words than words without heart."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Lao Tsu

"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."
- Lao Tsu

John Bright

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
- John Bright

Samuel Johnson

"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."
- Samuel Johnson

Alan Ashley-Pitt

"The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been."
- Alan Ashley-Pitt

Count Jean Baptiste Milhoud

"If death did not exist today it would be necessary to invent it."
- Count Jean Baptiste Milhoud

Abraham Lincoln

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
- Abraham Lincoln

Socrates

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
- Socrates

Dalai Lama

"When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways----either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength."
- Dalai Lama

Winston Churchill

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Winston Churchill

Victor Hugo

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age."
- Victor Hugo

Andrew Carnegie

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
- Andrew Carnegie

Woody Allen

"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."
- Woody Allen

Nikita Khrushchev

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers."
- Nikita Khrushchev

"Chinatown" quote

'Course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, public buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
- "Chinatown" quote

Oscar Wilde

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
- Oscar Wilde

Confucius

"The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration."
- Confucius

Lord Salisbury

"If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe."
- Lord Salisbury

Yogi Berra

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
- Yogi Berra

Lawrence Shames

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions - the hero and the sidekick.
- Lawrence Shames

Lily Tomlin

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
- Lily Tomlin

Brendan Behan

"Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis."
- Brendan Behan

Sigmund Freud

"The Irish are the only race of people who will not benefit from psychoanalysis."
- Sigmund Freud

A. Einstein

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. You can't solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created it."
- A. Einstein

Buddha

"As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life."
- Buddha

George Burns

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
- George Burns

Mae West

Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
- Mae West

Dorothy Nevill

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
- Dorothy Nevill

Mark Twain

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
- Mark Twain

David Frost

"Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home."
- David Frost