Wisdom

"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory."
        --Franklin Pierce Adams

"I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil"
        --Aeschylus

"Vices are their own punishment."
        --Aesop

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

"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."
        --Saint Thomas Aquinas

"Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you."
        --Yassir Arafat

"The wise learn many things from their enemies."
        --Aristophanes, Birds, c. 414 B.C.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
        --Aristotle

"Even Napoleon had his Watergate."
        --Yogi Berra

"It's never over 'till it's over."
        --Yogi Berra

"If you don´t know where you´re going, when you get there you´ll be lost."
        --Yogi Berra

"The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff."
        --Ambrose Bierce

"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough."
        --William Blake

"Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp. Or what’s a heaven for?"
        --Robert Browning

"There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity--the law of nature, and of nations."
        --Edmund Burke

"There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men."
        --Edmund Burke

"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
        --Edmund Burke

"Your success as a family, our success as a society, depends not on what happens at the White House, but what happens inside your house."
        --Babara Bush

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
        --Winston Churchill

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said it is the quality which guarantees all others."
        --Winston Churchill

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
        --Winston Churchill

"He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still."
        --Charles Caleb Colon

"Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."
        --Confucius

"Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live."
        --Calvin Coolidge

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
        --Bill Cosby

"Life is an incurable disease."
        --Abraham Cowley

"Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd."
        --William Cowper

"Am I getting smart with you? How would you know?"
        --Dilbert, (Scott Adams)

"Someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car."
        --Dilbert, (Scott Adams)

"There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives."
        --Dilbert, (Scott Adams)

"Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it."
        --Dilbert, (Scott Adams)

"Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue."
        --Dilbert, (Scott Adams)

"Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If he isn't there the first time you need him, chances are you won't be needing him again."
        --Dilbert, (Scott Adams)

"On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the escape key."
        --Dilbert, (Scott Adams)

"Everybody is somebody else's weirdo."
        --Dilbert, (Scott Adams)

"Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent."
        --Dionysius, the Elder

"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."
        --Benjamin Disraeli

"Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow."
        --Dogbert, (Scott Adams)

"Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest."
        --Alexandre Dumas

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
        --Thomas Edison

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words evidence of the fact."
        --George Eliot

"In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king."
        --Desiderius Erasmus

"To do for the world more than the world does for you--that is success."
        --Henry Ford

"If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
        --Anatole France

"Life's tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late."
        --Benjamin Franklin

"Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive."
        --Edward Gibbon

"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."
        --Edward Gibbon

"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."
        --Billy Graham

"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past."
        --Patrick Henry

"One realizes that one of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does."
        --Eric Hoffer

"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
        --Aldous Huxley

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
        --Aldous Huxley

"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all."
        --Hypatia

"A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it."
        --William Ralph Inge

"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
        --Samuel Johnson

"The moving finger writes; and having writ moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it."
        --Omar Khayyam,

"Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song."
        --Omar Khayyam,

"To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it."
        --Martin Luther King

"There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes."
        --Russell Kirk

"It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time..."
        --Abraham Lincoln

"Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong."
        --Abraham Lincoln

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."
        --John Locke

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."
        --Vince Lombardi

"There are no hopeless situations; There are only men who have grown hopeless about them."
        --Clare Boothe Luce

"A man always has two reasons for what he does -- a good one, and the real one."
        --John Pierpont Morgan

"Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for."
        --Ogden Nash

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
        --Sir Isaac Newton

"Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
        --George Orwell

"Your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these are the things that count in life."
        --Scott O´Grady

"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."
        --George S. Patton

"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."
        --Titus Maccius Plautus

"A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
        --Alexander Pope

"Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised."
        --Francis Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others."
        --Francis Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Nothing is given so profusely as advice."
        --Francis Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence."
        --Francis Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
        --Will Rogers

"I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother."
        --Will Rogers

"I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like. [emphasis added]
        --Will Rogers We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it.
  There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot."
        --Will Rogers

"Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school."
        --Will Rogers

"An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too."
        --Will Rogers

"In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard."
        --Theodore Roosevelt

"To willful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters."
        --William Shakespeare

"The minute you start talking about what you´re going to do if you lose, you have lost."
        --George Shultz

"Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches."
        --Catherine of Siena, c.1370

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
        --Alfred Lord Tennyson

"To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained --who can say this is not greatness?"
        --William Makepeace Thackeray

"For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root."
        --Henry David Thoreau

"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."
        --Henry David Thoreau

"The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience."
        --Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi

"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
        --Harry S. Truman

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
        --Mark Twain

"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
        --Mark Twain

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
        --Mark Twain

"Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant."
        --Mark Twain

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
        --Mark Twain

"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
        --Mark Twain

"I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, 'That which is everybody's business is nobody's business'."
        --Izaak Walton

"My father taught that the only helping hand you´re ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve."
        --J.C. Watts