Paul Sweeney

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
- Paul Sweeney

Raquel Welch

There aren't any hard women, just soft men.
- Raquel Welch

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Isaac Newton

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.
- Isaac Newton

Henri Amiel

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
- Henri Amiel

Robert Frost

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
- Robert Frost

Jonathan Swift

I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher.
- Jonathan Swift

Red Smith

There's nothing to writing. All you have to do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.
- Red Smith

Taisen Deshimaru

"Time is not a line, but a series of now points."
- Taisen Deshimaru

Jack Handey

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."
- Jack Handey

Mahatma Gandhi

"Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large."
- Mahatma Gandhi

Alexander Hamilton

I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
- Alexander Hamilton

John Sullivan

Generally speaking, women are noticed for their looks; men are noticed for everything ELSE. Of course I speak for myself.
- John Sullivan

Adlai Stevenson

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
- Adlai Stevenson

John McCain

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.
- John McCain

Rita Rudner

My parents have been married for fifty years. I asked my mother how they did it. She said, "You just close your eyes and pretend it's not happening."
- Rita Rudner

Bell Hooks

Between us it is not so much the issue of falling in love as it is finding another eccentric soul in this world who does not find you and your ways strange.
- Bell Hooks

Walt Whitman

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

- Walt Whitman

Harrison Ford

To me, success is choice and opportunity.
- Harrison Ford

Steve Martin

I have a new book coming out. It's one of those self-help books; it's called How to Get Along With Everyone." I wrote it with this other asshole.
- Steve Martin

Oscar Wilde

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
- Oscar Wilde

Frank Sinatra

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
- Frank Sinatra

Theodore Roosevelt

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
- Theodore Roosevelt

George Bernard Shaw

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
- George Bernard Shaw

Dr. Suess

"Say what you mean and act how you feel, because those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter."
- Dr. Suess

Albert Einstein.

" I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. "
- Albert Einstein.

Lenny Bruce

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.
- Lenny Bruce

Thomas Szasz

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
- Thomas Szasz

Friedrich Nietzsche

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Mark Twain

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
- Mark Twain