"We'll go because it's Thursday," he said, "and we'll go to wish everybody a Very Happy Thursday. Come, Piglet."
-Winnie the Pooh
"You said 'Hallo' and Flashed Past. I saw your tail in the distance as I was meditating on my reply. I had thought of saying 'What?'-but of course by then it was too late."
-Eeyore
"Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect."
-Oren Arnold
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
-Mark Twain
"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
-Mark Twain
"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more."
-Mark Twain
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
-Mark Twain
"Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."
-Mark Twain
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
-Mark Twain
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
-Mark Twain
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
-Mark Twain
"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable."
-Mark Twain
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
-Mark Twain
"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place."
-Mark Twain
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it."
-Mark Twain
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
-Mark Twain
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
-Mark Twain
"War is a continuation of politics by other means."
-Vanclauswich
"Life is very short, and there's no time
For fussing and fighting, my friend.
I have always thought that it's a crime"
-The Beatles
"Most of us can run pretty well all day long on one compliment."
-Mark Twain
"Mastery of others is strength; mastery of yourself is true power."
-Lao-tzu
"I do like him. I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect."
-J.D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey)
Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work:
"If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up."
-Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
"Greater love hath no man than this; that he lay down his life for his friends."
-John 15:13
"I’d like to suggest that turning off that endlessly quacking box is apt to improve the quality of your life as well as the quality of your writing."
-Stephen King
"'We’re all fools,' said Clemens, 'all the time. It’s just we’re a different kind each day. We think, I’m not a fool today. I’ve learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too.'"
-Ray Bradbury
"Then I went in and shot the televisor, that Medusa, which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little, but myself always going back, going back, hoping and waiting."
-Ray Bradbury