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  • A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
        Ingrid Bergman   Best?
  • Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
        Plato   Best?
  • What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
        Confucious   Best?
  • The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
        Confucious   Best?
  • The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
        Carl Jung   Best?
  • Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • In an argument, you have to learn to control your emotions. The other person is the revolver, but you are the trigger. The revolver won't hurt you as long as the trigger isn't pulled.
        Donald Trump   Best?
  • When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
        Hunter S. Thompson   Best?
  • [The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his actions.
        Confucious   Best?
  • It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
        Aesop   Best?
  • After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.
        Unknown   Best?
  • I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Almost anything you do is insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
        Mahatma Gandhi   Best?
  • Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
        Barry Goldwater   Best?
  • You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
        Dr. Seuss   Best?
  • A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  • The wisest men follow their own direction.
        Euripedes   Best?
  • The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
        Aristotle   Best?
  • Never mistake motion for action.
        Ernest Hemingway   Best?
  • Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.
        Unknown   Best?
  • Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
        George Bernard Shaw   Best?
  • Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.
        Kurt Vonnegut   Best?
  • Anyone who's ever significantly changed the course of humanity has either been a Crackpot, a Heretic, or a Dissident. In the case of Albert Einstein, he was all three!
        Carl Sagan   Best?
  • Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works...
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • Trying is the first step towards failure.
        Homer Simpson   Best?
  • The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
        Woodrow Wilson   Best?
  • Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolutions.
        Kahlil Gibran   Best?
  • Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
        Unknown   Best?
  • When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • To BLAME is to B LAME.
        Neal Visher   Best?
  • Stolen sweets are best.
        Colley Cibber   Best?
  • Slow and steady wins the race.
        Aesop   Best?
  • Energy and persistence conquer all things.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
  • ...Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream mother-goose, Alice-and- Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?
        Sylvia Plath   Best?

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