Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

-Mark Twain

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck

- James Garfield

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

-Horace Walpole

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

-Sir Arnold Bax

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

 - Jeannette Rankin

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

 - Alvin Toffler

I swore never to be silent whenever wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.

 - Elie Weisel

“We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death.

 - Chris Hedges

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

 - Arthur Schopenhauer

The atheist is free to concentrate on the fate of this world — whether that means visiting a friend in a hospital or advocating for tougher gun control laws — without trying to square things with an unseen overlord in the next. Atheists do not want to deny religious believers the comfort of their faith. We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.

- Susan Jacoby

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

- Tom Waits

The average person thinks he isn't.

-Father Larry Lorenzoni

Doing what you love means dealing with things you don't

-David Shore

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week

-Evan Esar

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

-Anais Nin

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast / To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak

- William Congreve

Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind

-Austin O'Malley

Two souls are sometimes created together and in love before they’re born.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

-Adlai Stevenson

Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are

-Kurt Cobain

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens. Thus they might come to be stamped as ‘necessities of thought,’ ‘a priori givens,’ etc. The path of scientific progress is often made impassable for a long time by such errors.

- Albert Einstein

It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

- Alfred North Whitehead

The phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

-Johann van Goethe

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and invariably fatal

-Neil Gaiman

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

- Friedrich Neitzsche

The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

-Barack Obama

I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

-Albert Einstein

Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity

-Lois McMaster Bujold

All movements go too far.

-Bertrand Russell

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

- Rod Serling

Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.

-Randy K. Milholland

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.

- Pete Seeger

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking

-John Kenneth Galbraith

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy

- Louise Bogan

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

- Jackie Robinson

In one school year a child spends 7800 hours at home and 900 hours at school.  Which teacher should be most accountable?

-Jim Trelease

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies

-Thomas Jefferson

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

- Friedrich Neitzsche

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time

-Abraham Lincoln

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

-Edmond de Goncourt

The past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness

-Pierre Trudeau

He went to bed and slept in an easy grace he hadn't felt in years.  No 6:30 AM alarm clock to startle him into a false and beastly humanity

-Charles Bukowski

One always tends to overpraise a long book because one has got through it.

- E.M. Forster

You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

-Sen. Patrick Leahy

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture

Anatole France

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

-Christian Nevell Bovee

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

-Michel de Montaigne

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

-Khalil Gibran

I awoke only to find the rest of the world was still asleep

-Leonardo Da Vinci

In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know, that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

-Carl Sagan