You've got to make haste while it's still light of day. My godmother used to say, I don't want to rust out, I just want to work out. If you stand still long enough, people will throw dirt on you.

Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Samuel Johnson

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

Will Rogers

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Mark Twain

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Starr

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922

The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

Napoleon Hill

There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things.

Source Unknown

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.

Voltaire

We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.

Paul Boese