" If there is no struggle, there is no progress. "

Frederick Douglass US abolitionist (1817 – 1895)

" A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. "

G. Gordon Liddy

" Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. "

William Jennings Bryan US lawyer, orator, & politician (1860 – 1925)

" Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. "

P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money British humorist & novelist in US (1881 – 1975)

" Anyone who limits her vision to memories of yesterday is already dead. "

Lily Langtry British actress (1853 – 1929)

" If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. "

Thomas Szasz

" Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted. "

John Lennon English singer & songwriter (1940 – 1980)

" Plato is boring. "

Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, What I owe to the Ancients German philosopher (1844 – 1900)

" Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech. "

Henry David Thoreau US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. "

Elbert Hubbard US author (1856 – 1915)

" Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still. "

Robert Sternberg

" I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him. "

Saint Teresa of Avila Spanish ascetic, nun, & saint (1515 – 1582)

" I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. "

George Burns US actor & comedian (1896 – 1996)

" If you find serenity and happiness, some people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. "

Mother Teresa Indian humanitarian & missionary (1910 – 1997)

" To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention. "

Kelvin Throop

" Accidents will occur in the best regulated families. "

Charles Dickens English novelist (1812 – 1870)

" Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. "

Pearl S. Buck

" It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. "

Tom Lehrer US humorist, singer, & songwriter (1928 – )

" Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. "

George S. Patton US general (1885 – 1945)

" Americans never quit. "

General Douglas Macarthur US WWII general & war hero (1880 – 1964)

" What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls “grace” from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call “rigtheousness.” "

Victor Hugo French dramatist, novelist, & poet (1802 – 1885)

" Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. "

Henry David Thoreau, “Walden” US Transcendentalist author (1817 – 1862)

" The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors. "

Voltaire French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)

" Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date. "

Unknown Quotations by unknown authors

" We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. "

Helen Keller US blind & deaf educator (1880 – 1968)

" There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures. "

Josiah Gilbert Holland

" We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. "

William James US Pragmatist philosopher & psychologist (1842 – 1910)

" Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. "

Albert Camus French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 – 1960)

" If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him. "

Seneca Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician (5 BC – 65 AD)

" If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. "

Kahlil Gibran Lebanese artist & poet in US (1883 – 1931)

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