Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?

-Aldous Huxley

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

-William Hazlitt

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity.

-George Bush

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

-Robert Anton Wilson

Care about what other people think of you and you will always be their prisoner

-Lao Tzu

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

-Indian Proverb

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am a communist because I believe that the Communist idea is a state form of Christianity.

-Alexander Zhuravlyov

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

-Buddha

One kills a man, one is an assassin;
One kills millions, one is a conqueror;
One kills everyone, one is a God.

- Jean Rostand

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

-Stephen Leacock

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it

-Mary Wilson Little

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

-Victor Hugo

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

- James M. Barrie

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live

-Henry David Thoreau

You and the world you live in are but a grain of sand upon the infinite shore of an infinite sea.

- Kahlil Gibran

Be kind whenever possible.  It is always possible

-Dalai Lama

Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.

-Jewish Proverb

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

-Thomas Szasz

Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy

-Henry Kissinger

So long as you long
you idolize longing;
but become the beloved
and no being longs

-Rumi

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast

-Epictetus

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

-Sam Levenson

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete

-Buddha

People fall in love at the moments in their lives when they are most terrorized by possibilities

-Adam Phillips

But who prays for Satan?  Who in eighteen centuries has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most

-Mark Twain

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

-Henry Ward Beecher

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

-Karl Marx

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time

-Leonard Bernstein