"Excellence is not an act; it is a habit." - Aristotle

"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia." -Joseph Wood Krutch

"Cigarette smoking is a major cause of statistics."

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau

"Virtually every important action in life involves educated guesswork. Too few chances reliably translate into too few victories." - Thomas W. Hazlett

"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." - George Bernard Shaw

"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock." - Will Rogers

"Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice."

"Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it." - Garrison Keillor

"When a man knows the truth [or when] he is mistaken and deceived, it is his duty to say what he thinks in his heart whether it be true or he only thinks it to be true. But a liar says the opposite of what he thinks in his heart, with a purpose to deceive." - St. Augustine

"God and the soldier we adore, in times of strife, but not before. When the strife is over and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." - Rudyard Kipling

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles Schultz

"Morality is truth in full bloom." - Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Alva Edison

"That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of." - Benjamin Franklin

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers

"Fools rush in where fools have been before."

"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves." - August Strindberg

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." - Mark Twain

"By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher... and that is a good thing for any man. - Socrates

"Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later." - Mary Bly

"Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person." - Mark Twain

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." - George Bernard Shaw

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin

"Have you seen any fairies lately?~~ I asked the question of a little girl not long ago.~~ 'Huh! There's no such thing as fairies', she replied.~~ In some way the answer hurt me, and I have been vaguely disquieted when I have thought of it ever since.~~ Have you seen any fairies lately, or have you allowed the harsher facts of life to dull your 'seeing eye?'" - Laura Ingalls Wilder

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." - Abba Eban

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen

"If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on." - Margaret Mead

"Friendship," said Christopher Robin, "is a very comforting sort of thing to have." - A.A. Milne

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." - Sir James Barrie

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life from aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain" - Emily Dickinson

"If a person is to get to the meaning of life, he must learn to like the facts about himself, ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity, before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly." - Eugene O'Neill

"It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality." - Virginia Woolfe

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw

"...If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau

"After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley

"Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood." - Henry Miller

"Luck is when preparation meets opportunity." - Richard Sherman

"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." - Voltaire

"Human beings differ very little from one another; but the ones who come out on top are those who have trained in the hardest school." - Thucydides

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." - Jeff Valdez

"I am wiser than this man; it is likely that neither of us knows anything worthwhile, but he thinks he knows something when he does not, whereas when I do not know, neither do I think I know; so I am likely to be wiser to this small extent, that I do not think I know what I do not know." -Plato, The Apology

"I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place." - Steven Wright

"Art is a moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television." - Rita Mae Brown

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it." - Franklin P. Jones

"If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance." - Al Bernstein

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses." - Alphonse Karr

"Here is a test to see if your mission on earth is finished. If you are alive, it isn't." - Francis Bacon

"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat." - Ellen Perry Berkeley