I distrust those who know so well what God wants them to do because, I notice, it always coincides with their own desires 

- Susan B. Anthony

There is no trap so deadly, as the trap you set for yourself 

- Raymond Chandler

My ambition is handicapped by my laziness. 

- Charles Bukowski

Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life’s important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.

-Fred Rogers

With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word ‘intellectual,’ of course, became the swear word it deserved to be. 

-Ray Bradbury

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is error alone that needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.”

-Thomas Jefferson

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

-Robert Heinlein

It isn't the mountains ahead that will wear you down, it's the pebble in your shoe.

-Muhammed Ali

Some people are so poor, all they have is money.

-Patrick Meagher

12% of employees eat because they are hungry.  88% of employees eat because it is one o'clock

-Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

-Seneca

It is better to be loved, but safer to be feared... For love is held by the tie of obligation, which, because men are sadly wicked, is broken to serve their self-interest; but fear is held by a dread of punishment which never abandons you.

-Niccolo Machiavelli

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

- Buddha

The purpose of life, is to live a life of purpose

-Anonymous

Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert 

- Mike Tyson

People are stupid, they will believe something because they want it to be true; or because they're afraid it might be true

- Terry Goodkind

Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle.

-Terry Pratchett

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

- Emiliano Zapata

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

- Benjamin Franklin

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind then that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; and while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

- Eugene V. Debs

Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how.

-Friedrich Neitzsche

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

- Albert Camus

It's a mistake to theorize in advance of the facts. Insensibly, one begins twisting facts to suit theories, rather than theories to suit facts.

-Sherlock Holmes

Man... sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

- Dalai Lama

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. 

-Cardinal Richelieu

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money

-Native American Proverb

Society does not want individuals who are alert, keen, revolutionary, because such individuals will not fit into the established social pattern and they may break it up. That is why society seeks to hold your mind in its pattern, and why your so-called education encourages you to imitate, to follow, to conform.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

 -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas.

-Kahlil Gibran

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

- H.G. Wells

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him

-Voltaire

How loudly you talk and the validity of your argument usually exist in inverse proportion

-Bertrand Russell

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

-Calvin (Bill Watterson)

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

-Bruce Lee

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

-Max Planck

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One— I am become Death, the shatterer of Worlds. 

-Robert J. Oppenheimer

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

- James Branch Cabell

If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that's not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress comes from healing the wound that the blow made. They haven't even begun to pull the knife out. They won't even admit the knife is there.

- Malcolm X

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

 -Rudyard Kipling

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. 

-John F. Kennedy

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. 

-Teddy Roosevelt

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?  

-Blaise Pascal

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

- Hunter S Thompson

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

-Gandalf The Grey (J.R.R. Tolkein)

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.  

-Chuck Palahniuk

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

-Mahatma Gandhi

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move. 

-Douglas Adams

The Poor shall never cease out of the land 

- Deuteronomy 15:11

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act 

- George Orwell

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion

-Adam Smith

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph

-Haile Selassie

You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

-C.S. Lewis

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

When people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or whatnot if we develop an equal fanaticism.  It appears to me that one defeats the fantaic precisely by not by being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one’s intelligence. In the same way a man can kill a tiger because he is not like a tiger and uses his brain to invent the rifle, which no tiger could ever do. 

- George Orwell

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous

-Confucius

Some people like my advice so much they frame it upon the wall instead of using it

-Gordon R. Dickson

It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they've been fooled

-Mark Twain

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness

-Joseph Conrad

The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression nor encourage their unique abilities

- Benjamin Greene

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel

-Maya Angelou

It's one of life's bitterest truths is that bedtime arrives so often just as things are getting interesting

-Lemony Snicket

Those who are heartless once cared too much

-Anonymous

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusion destroyed

-Friedrich Neitzsche

When the axe came into the woods, many of the trees said "At least the handle is one of us"

-Turkish Proverb

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt

-Kurt Vonnegut

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge

-Tyron Lannister (Game of Thrones)

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold

-Khalil Gibran

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man

-Mark Twain

Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf.  It's ordinary to love the beautiful, but it's beautiful to love the ordinary

-Anonymous

Everyone is tempted by the eloquence of speech
but I am a slave to the Master of Silence.

-Rumi

A life is not important except in it has impact on other lives

-Jackie Robinson

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help

-Judith Martin

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

-Saint Augustine

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

-Clare Booth Luce

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much

-Oscar Wilde

Wear the old coat and buy the new book

-Austin Phelps

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts

-John Dewey

In wine there is wisdom.  In beer there there is freedom.  In water there is bacteria

-Benjamin Franklin

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

-Anonymous

The less you can live on, the more chance your idea will succeed. This is true even after you've "made it."

-Hugh MacLeod

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

-Steven Weinberg

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.

-William Ralph Igne

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

-Jules Renard

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

-Lillian Hellman

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

-Jules Renard

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice

-Meister Eckhart

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

-Harry S. Truman

It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable

- Eric Hoffer

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.

-Blaise Pascal

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."

-William S. Burroughs

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand

-Kurt Vonnegut

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another

-J. Frank Dobie

If you ever ask me how many times you’ve crossed my mind, I would say once. Because you came, and never left.

 — Ritu Ghatourey

Nobody who gave their best effort ever regretted it

-George Halas

Discontent is the first necessity of progress

-Thomas Edison

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

-Daniel Webster

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.

-Kiersten White (The Chaos of Stars)

An election is coming.  Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry

-George Elliot