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  • The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
        Robert Fulghum   Best?
  • The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as close to heaven as you can get. Without this - with work which you despise, which bores you can which the world does not need - this life is hell.
        W. E. B. DuBois   Best?
  • One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.
        Etty Hillesum   Best?
  • The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
        Arnold Toynbee   Best?
  • Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
        Seneca   Best?
  • To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
        Seneca   Best?
  • Strain every nerve to gain your point.
        Cicero   Best?
  • Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
        Les Brown   Best?
  • Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.
        Archimedes   Best?
  • If antidepressant drugs are effective, why don't they work for psychiatrists? Year after year, psychiatrists commit suicide at a higher rate than the general population. Are we to believe that they don't take their own drugs, or that the drugs don't have the benefits attributed to them?
        Nicolas Martin   Best?
  • Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.
        David Lloyd George   Best?
  • The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
        Elaine Agather   Best?
  • With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. . . to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.
        Lewis Grizzard   Best?
  • If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
        Charlotte Bronte   Best?
  • What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
        Andre Agassi   Best?
  • Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it about like marmalade.
        Noel Coward   Best?
  • Greatness is not in were we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.
        Oliver Wendell Holmes   Best?
  • Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing.
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
        William Shakespeare   Best?
  • Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.
        Publilius Syrus   Best?
  • Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.
        Horace   Best?
  • Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.
        Homer   Best?
  • Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.
        Homer   Best?
  • I have done some indiscreet things in my day, but this thing of playing myself for a prophet was the worst. Still, it had its ameliorations. A prophet doesn't have to have any brains. They are good to have, of course, for the ordinary exigencies of life, but they are no use in professional work. It is the restfulest vocation there is. When the spirit of prophecy comes upon you, you merely take your intellect and lay it off somewhere in a cool place for a rest, and unship your jaw and leave it alone; it will work itself. The result is prophecy. (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Chapt 27)
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • Clergyman, n. - A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of bettering his temporal ones.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
  • Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • There is nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
        Ross MacDonald   Best?
  • Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell.
        Doctor Who   Best?
  • The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • I'm from Iowa, I only work in space.
        William Shatner as Kirk   Best?
  • ZIGZAG, v.t. To move forward uncertainly, from side to side, as one carrying the white man's burden. (From _zed_, _z_, and _jag_, an Icelandic word of unknown meaning.)
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • J is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel -- than which nothing could be more absurd. Its original form, which has been but slightly modified, was that of the tail of a subdued dog, and it was not a letter but a character, standing for a Latin verb, _jacere_, "to throw," because when a stone is thrown at a dog the dog's tail assumes that shape. This is the origin of the letter, as expounded by the renowned Dr. Jocolpus Bumer, of the University of Belgrade, who established his conclusions on the subject in a work of three quarto volumes and committed suicide on being reminded that the j in the Roman alphabet had originally no curl.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
        Woodrow Wilson   Best?
  • That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
  • Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.
        Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   Best?
  • The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
        Thomas Carlyle   Best?

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