• Unconciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence. I suppose it is the bitterest wound to human pride. William Somerset Maugham
• It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. William Somerset Maugham
• Well,' said Pooh, 'what I like best,' and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. A.A. Milne
• May I ring true, as I tremble. Unknown
• I am a coward inspired by words out of context, only to fear the context that borne the words. Unknown
• Laugh and the whole world laughs with you. Cry and you cry alone. Unknown
• A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. Herm Albright
• If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• Happiness? That's nothing more than good health and a poor memory. Albert Schweitzer
• My life is my argument. Albert Schweitzer
• Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Calvin Coolidge
• Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. Samuel Johnson
• I'm never going to run this again. Grete Waitz, after winning her first of nine New York City marathons
• You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can't know what's coming. Frank Shorter
• Everybody and their mother knows you don't train hard on Friday, the day before a race. But a lot of runners will overtrain on Thursday if left on their own. Thursday is the most dangerous day of the week. Marty Stern, Villanova women's coach
• Real men don't use backups, they post their stuff on a public ftp server and let the rest of the world make copies. Linus Torvalds
• There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that understand trinary, those that don't, and those that confuse it with binary. Unknown
• The Internet: where men are men, women are men, and children are FBI agents. Unknown
• If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. Jean Kerr
• I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams
• There are two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. Jeremy S. Anderson
• When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion. Abraham Lincoln
• I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. Abraham Lincoln
• The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. Bertrand Russell
• No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other. Bertrand Russell
• The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. Bertrand Russell
• The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good. Bertrand Russell
• It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go. Bertrand Russell
• Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. Bertrand Russell
• Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact. Bertrand Russell
• A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand. Bertrand Russell
• The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. Bertrand Russell
• If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years. Bertrand Russell
• One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell
• I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell
• To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. Bertrand Russell
• We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in endeavoring to think so ourselves. Confucius
• A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. Gandhi
• A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. Friedrich Nietzsche
• The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. Friedrich Nietzsche
• In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche
• The covers of this book are too far apart. Ambrose Bierce
• Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it's time to pause and reflect. Mark Twain
• The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. Mark Twain
• To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times. Mark Twain
• The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. Mark Twain
• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. Mark Twain
• I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me. Mark Twain
• I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. Oscar Wilde
• Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde
• I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
• I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. Stephen Roberts
• Pain shared is lessened, joy shared, increased. Spider Robinson
• Men never commit evil so fully and joyfuly as when they do it for religious convictions. Blaise Pascal
• It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. Epictetus
• You can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it. Albert Einstein
• When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. Emo Philips
• The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. George Bernard Shaw
• I'd rather be optimistic and a fool, than pessimistic and right. Unknown
• If a man says something in a forest, and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong? Unknown
• Learn as if to live forever; live as if to die tomorrow. Unknown
• The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense. Unknown
• A witty saying proves nothing. Voltaire
• Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. William Somerset Maugham
• If you trust Google more than your doctor, then maybe it's time to switch doctors. Jadelr and Cristina Cordova
• Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. Victor Hugo
• Privatize the gains. Socialize the losses. Wall Street
• You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion. L. Ron Hubbard
• Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. Buddha
• It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair
• To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. Bertrand Russell
• If we're all alone, then we're all together in that too. Holly's Mom
• If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull. W. C. Fields
• Chance favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur
• Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner
• A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? Robert Browning
• One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways. Bertrand Russell