There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and having to say something.
~ John Dewey

Know thyself, or at least keep renewing the acquaintance.
~ Robert Brault

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
~ Roger Crawford

Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss.
~ Unknown

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
~ Anonymous

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he is talking about.
~ Sam Ewing

If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
~ Dennis Roth

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
~ B.F. Skinner

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
~ Leo Tolstoy

Proofread carefully to see if you any word out.
~ Unknown

Why do we tend to love actors' portrayals of misery when we would never wish such suffering upon ourselves?
~ St. Augustine of Hippo

I am a textualist. I am an originalist. I am not a nut.
~ Justice Antonín Scalia

Only stupid people don't change their minds.
~ Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The less men think, the more they talk.
~ Montesquieu

The Distraction Addiction: When you are constantly interrupted by external things - the phone, texts, people with 'just one quick question', clients, children - by self-generated interruptions, or by your own efforts to multitask and juggle several tasks at once. The chronic distractions erode your sense of having control of your life. They don't just derail your train of thought; they make you lose yourself.
~ Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Dad's idea of adventure was driving his Ford Taurus to town without the wiper fluid filled to the top.
~ Monique Parsons

Eros will have naked bodies; friendship naked personalities.
~ C.S. Lewis

An intellectual is a person who is knowledgable in one field but speaks out only in others.
~ Tom Wolfe

The proof of good parenting: that the child has no desire to be famous.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Insomnia is the mind's revenge for all the thoughts we forgot to have in the day.
~ Norman Mailer

We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.
~ Jean de la Bruyere

The only people we can think of as normal are those we do not know very well.
~ Sigmund Freud

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
~ Albert Einstein

When the leftists lacked power, they embraced free speech. Now that they have power, they don't need free speech.
~ Charles Kesler

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
~ Jorge Luis Borges

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
~ Cicero

Why is it that I so much want there not to be a god?
~ Thomas Nagel

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Travel far enough and you will meet yourself.
~ David Mitchell

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods. They have not forgotten this.
~ Terry Pratchett

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
~ José Saramago

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
~ e.e. cummings

Any idiot can be liked. It takes talent to scare the crap out of people.
~ Alison Arngrim

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
~ Will Rogers

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy. Whiskey and action are easier.
~ Mignon McLaughlin

Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides.
~ Frank Tyger

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
~ John Erskine

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
~ Ernest Hemingway

If sex evolved so that your children are not condemned to be just like you, intelligence evolved so that you are not condemned to be just like yourself.
~ Alison Jolly

It takes considerable knowledge to realize the extent of one's ignorance.
~ Thomas Sowell

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
-~ Thomas More (1478-1535)

When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.
~ Bill Copeland