What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.

Time is the fairest and toughest judge.

Edgar Quinet

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

Richard Hooker

When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies, are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

Larry David

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

Robert Half

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

PATH TO SUCCESS: DREAM. PLAN. DO. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. ACHIEVE! IT'S A MESSY JOURNEY.

Tom Giaquinto

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Marcel Proust

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

Arabella Weir

Epistemology models ontology.

John Polkinghorne

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

Thomas Sowell

Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.

Adam Carolla