Henry Ford

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
- Henry Ford

P. J. O'Rourke

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
- P. J. O'Rourke

Will Rogers

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
- Will Rogers

Laurence J. Peter

America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
- Laurence J. Peter

Ralph Bus

Children really brighten up a household - they never turn the lights off.
- Ralph Bus

John Steinbeck

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
- John Steinbeck

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Confucius

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
- Confucius

Homer Simpson

Bart, a woman is like a beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one!
- Homer Simpson

Winston Churchill

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
- Winston Churchill

Rowan Atkinson

You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest.
- Rowan Atkinson

Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein

Kurt Vonnegut

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Aldous Huxley

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
- Aldous Huxley

Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)

Russell P. Askue

If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.
- Russell P. Askue

Fernandez de Andrada

For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.
- Fernandez de Andrada

John Ciardi

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
- John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)

John Adams

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826)

John Kenneth Galbraith

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Mary Hemingway

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
- Mary Hemingway

Irene C. Kassorla

You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.
- Irene C. Kassorla

Lao Tzu

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."
- Lao Tzu

Stephen Covey

"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."
- Stephen Covey

Woody Allen

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.
- Woody Allen

Voltaire

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
- Voltaire

Bob Edwards

A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
- Bob Edwards

Daniel Webster

Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals. Constant employment and well-paid labor produce general prosperity, content, and cheerfulness.
- Daniel Webster

Oscar Wilde

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
- Oscar Wilde

Mark Twain

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain