I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

There is no such thing as a great man or a great woman.  People believe in them, just as they used to believe in unicorns and dragons.  The greatest man or woman is 99 per cent just like yourself.  - George Bernard Shaw

What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. - Crowfoot

Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority. - Doctor Who

It is possible to succumb to charm even when one sees through it.  - Elizabeth Eyre

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. - Jerome K Jerome

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. - Muhammad Ali

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. - Katharine Hepburn

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. - Mark Twain

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - George S. Patton

The mind is a horse.  It would rather have you chase it around the pasture than go to work.  Therefore tie it up -- make it work while it is supposed to be working until it gets the habit.  - Erle Stanley Gardner

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy. - W.C. Fields

I've never been married, but I tell people I'm divorced so they won't think something's wrong with me. - Elayne Boosler

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. - Unknown

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A.A. Milne

Being right half the time beats being half right all the time.  - Malcolm Forbes

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. - Winston Churchill

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. - Aristotle

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. - Albert Camus

Of dreamers...  "Indeed, they are the most truly ambitious," I retorted; "their dreams are so vast, so infinite, so far beyond all puny human strength and capacity, that they, perforce, must remain dreamers always." - Jeffery Farnol

The worst thing about history is that it just goes on and on,... - Joan Smith

Life is like a bowl of dough.  Knead hard.  - Ernie, the Keebler Elf

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. - Kierkegaard

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it. - Albert Einstein

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.  - Stephen King

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect. - Unknown

If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. - Anatole France

It's fine to believe in ourselves, but we mustn't be too easily convinced. - Burton Hillis

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous.  He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.  - Kurt Vonnegut

It is a fact that disappointed men make more noise than hopeful ones. - Elizabeth Eyre

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart...  - William Wordsworth

I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say. - Calvin Coolidge

I love deadlines. I especially love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams

It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful.- Anton Szandor LaVey

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. - T. S. Eliot

People are unhappy (and neurotic) in America today because advertising has caused them to have  unrealistic expectations of life, themselves, their jobs and the Fantasyland products and services  that are constantly pushed on them. - Curtis Smale

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. - Mary Bly

The man who has no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

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

People Ask Me, "Why is it free?" and I tell them (really slowly) "Because it doesn't cost  anything." - Bill Austin

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly  right. - Edward Simmons

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. - James D. Miles

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard

If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends. - Deborah Norville