The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
William Penn
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
Charles Caleb Colton
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Abraham Lincoln
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.
Richard Dawkins
Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Henry David Thoreau
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
Success doesn't come to you... you go to it.
Marva Collins
Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.
True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he who thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route
Love and work... work and love, that's all there is.
Sigmund Freud
Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
Mason Cooley
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
Deepak Chopra
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
It’s very hard to design something that you almost do not see because it just seems so obvious, natural and inevitable.
Jonathon Ive
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma Gandhi
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
Nothing is too much trouble when one loves, and there is always time.
Abdu'l-Baha
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
Rodney Dangerfield
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
Gore Vidal
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo Coelho
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.
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