-
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
Woodrow Wilson
Best?
-
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
Salvador Dali
Best?
-
But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on -- and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end.
J. R .R. Tolkien
Best?
-
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Vincent van Gogh
Best?
-
I dwell in possibility...
Emily Dickinson
Best?
-
What is a seer? A man who with luck tells the truth sometimes, with frequent falsehoods, but when his luck deserts him, collapses then and there.
Achilles
Best?
-
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
George Carlin
Best?
-
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Mark Twain
Best?
-
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
Socrates
Best?
-
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
Best?
-
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Adams
Best?
-
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
Best?
-
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
H. P. Lovecraft
Best?
-
He admits there are two sides to every question: his own and the wrong side.
Channing Pollock
Best?
-
A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
Homer
Best?
-
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
George Bernard Shaw
Best?
-
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Voltaire
Best?
-
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
Henry David Thoreau
Best?
-
Some people make things happen, some watch while things happen, and some wonder 'What happened?'
Unknown
Best?
-
We are born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
Muriel Strode
Best?
-
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Best?
-
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Best?
-
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Louisa May Alcott
Best?
-
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein
Best?
-
When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.
Ed Macauley
Best?
-
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Best?
-
I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.
Beverly Sills
Best?
-
When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
W. Somerset Maugham
Best?
-
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
Woody Allen
Best?
-
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody Allen
Best?
-
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen
Best?
-
Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.
Rabbi Harold Kushner
Best?
-
You conquer every hardness with your eyes, as you do likewise every light; so if it can happen that one can die of joy, now would be the time.
Michelangelo
Best?
-
One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.
J. Gustav White
Best?
-
Being able to support oneself allows one to choose a marriage out of love and not just economic dependence. It also allows one to risk that marriage.
Gloria Steinem
Best?
-
Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Best?
-
Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.
Paul Graham
Best?
-
When it comes to taking chances, some people like to play poker or shoot dice; other people prefer to parachute jump, go rhino hunting, or climb ice floes, while still others engage in crime or marriage. But I like to get drunk and drive like a fool.
P. J. O'Rourke
Best?
-
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy
Best?
-
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
G. K. Chesterton
Best?
