To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.

Edward F. Halifax

Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

Ambrose Bierce

The reason kids like rock 'n roll is their parents don't.

Mitch Miller

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

Bryan McGill

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

Carl Hiaasen

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

William Osler, Aphorisms from Hi

Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

Gavin DeGraw

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Peg Bundy

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Isabel Allende

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Oscar Wilde

We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.

Moon Unit Zappa