I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880)

A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.

Plautus

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time

George Bernard Shaw

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Rogers Hornsby

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Mao Tse Tung

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Richard Cecil

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

Muhammad Ali

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities -- that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov)

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

E. M. Forster

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

Harold Pinter

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

Sir Winston Churchill

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

Arthur C. Clarke

I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread. They are always generous and lend freely; their children will be blessed.

Bible, Psalm 37:25,26 NIV