"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." - Epictetus

"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated." - George Bernard Shaw.

"Where there is no vision, the people perish." - Proverbs 29:18

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out." - James B. Conant

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." - Mark Twain

"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Virtue is its own punishment." - Aneurin Bevan

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Soren Kierkegaard

"Actions lie louder than words." - Carolyn Wells

"Men love war because it allows them look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them." - John Fowles

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." - John Ruskin

"In our extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too." - Suzanne Mornay

"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor." - Andrew Carnegie

"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." - Edward Gibbon

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing." - John Andrew Holmes

"As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"They are able because they think they are able." - Virgil

"What you can see, but can't see over is as good as infinite." - Thomas Carlyle

"There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud." - Carol Shields

"You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it." - Lucinda Bassett

"There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself." - Abraham Ibn Esra

"Pain makes men think. Thought makes men wise. Wisdom makes life endurable." - John Patrick

"Every man is as God made him, and often even worse." - Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

"One can find women who have never had an affair, but it is rare to find a woman who has had only one." - Francois La Rochefoucauld

"My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh my friends --
It gives a lovely light!"
- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad." - Euripedes

"They hate whom they fear." - Quintus Ennius (Quem metuunt, oderunt.)

"The fickleness of the women I Love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me." - George Bernard Shaw

"Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground." - Oscar Wilde

"Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?" - Virginia Woolf

"Is there another life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be, we cannot be created for this sort of suffering." - John Keats

"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues." - Bertrand Russell

"Until a man dies, be careful to call him not happy but lucky." - Solon

"The instances are exceedingly rare of men immediately passing over a clear marked line from virtue into declared vice and corruption. There are middle tints and shades between the two extremes; there is something uncertain on the confines of the two empires which they must pass through, and which renders the change easy and imperceptible." - Edmund Burke

"Familiarity breeds contempt." - Publius Syrius

"He that is down need fear no fall." - John Bunyan

"I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it." - Will Rogers

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." - Henry David Thoreau

"He had so many irons in the fire that he was never able to forge any single one into a weapon to conquer his world." - Curtis Dahl

"Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention." - Cornelia Skinner

"The devil can quote scripture for his purpose." - William Shakespeare

"To distrust is to be lonely." - R.E. Phillips

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone." - Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Repay the evil with good and you deprive the evildoer of all the pleasure of his wickedness." - Leo Tolstoy

"The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world." - William Wallace

"Sometimes I get the feeling that the whole world is against me - but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral." - Robert Orden

"Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and, still more the man who is indifferent to everything." - Lavater

"When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake." - Horace

"When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail." - Pearl S. Buck

"There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy." - Bertrand Russell

"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Leo Tolstoy