One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Two young Harvard M.B.A.'s worked up some highly optimistic projections -- with the caveat that these were speculative and should of course be tested.

Roy Blount, Jr., Able Were They

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

Josh Billings

Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.

Michel de Montaigne

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

John W. Foster

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

Get busy living or get busy dying.

Stephen King

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.

Jennifer M. Granholm

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

George Eliot

For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude.

Clarence E. Hodges

Once in a restaurant I made a toast to my wife, To the best woman a man ever had. The waiter joined me.

Rodney Dangerfield

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Sir Winston Churchill