If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. ~David Ambrose
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but nothing in this world is certain but death and taxes. ~Benjamin Franklin
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them. ~Logan Pearsall Smith
Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. ~Helen Rowland
Well-trained reflexes are quicker than luck. ~Author Unknown
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. ~Margaret Fuller
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. ~Arthur Ashe
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. ~Matthew 4:4
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Every second is of infinite value. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
The only way of catching a train I ever discovered is to miss the train before. ~G.K. Chesterton
A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. ~Helen Rowland
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. ~William Makepeace Thackeray
Men love because they are afraid of themselves, afraid of the loneliness that lives in them, and need someone in whom they can lose themselves as smoke loses itself in the sky. ~V.F. Calverton
If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies. ~Dave Barry
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ~Ezra Pound
All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out. ~A.J.P. Taylor
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. ~Francis Bacon, Essays: Of Atheism, 1625
I don't have a problem with caffeine. I have a problem without caffeine! ~Author Unknown
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. ~Mark Twain, Notebooks, 1935
God, that dumping ground of our dreams. ~Jean Rostand, Carnets d'un Biologiste, 1962
The only jobs for which no man is qualified are human incubators and wet nurse. Likewise, the only job for which no woman is or can be qualified is sperm donor. ~Wilma Scott Heide