George Bernard Shaw

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright

Meg Singer

We live our lives in the company and service of others, but allow that some moments are intended for our own pleasures as well.
- Meg Singer

John D. Rockefeller

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.
- John D. Rockefeller

Saint Jerome

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
- Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)

Johann K. Lavater

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.
- Johann K. Lavater

Oscar Wilde

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Albert Pine

What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pine

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

George Burns

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two together as close as possible.
- George Burns

Robert Heinlein

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
- Robert Heinlein

Emily Dickinson

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
- Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Winston Churchill

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill

Whitney Young

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
- Whitney Young (1921 - 1971)

Robert Frost

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

Margaret Mitchell

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
- Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind

Lord Chesterfield

Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)

Susan B. Anthony

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled, the more I gain.
- Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906)

G. K. Chesterton

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
- G. K. Chesterton

Sidney J. Harris

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
- Sidney J. Harris

Moliere

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.
- Moliere (1622 - 1673)

Emo Phillips

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
- Emo Phillips

Thomas Jefferson

"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing...."
- Thomas Jefferson

Ambrose Bierce

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914)

Henry Ford

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
- Henry Ford

Victor Hugo

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables

Jack Handey

"It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight."
- Jack Handey

Everett Dirksen

"When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies."
- Everett Dirksen

Woody Allen

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans.
- Woody Allen

Mark Twain

Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.
- Mark Twain