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Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.

 Ralph Waldo Emerson, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

 Jean Giraudoux, in  Success and Failure

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.

 Louis Armstrong, in  Vice and Virtue

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

 Ralph Waldo Emerson, in  Happiness and Misery

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

 Thomas Jefferson, in  Law and Politics

Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

 Luther Burbank, in  Wisdom and Ignorance

I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.

 Albert Einstein, in  Life and Death

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

 Michel de Montaigne, in  Science and Religion

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

 Mary Howitt, in  Happiness and Misery

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

 P. J. O'Rourke, in  Art and Literature

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.

 Robert G. Ingersoll, in  Altruism and Cynicism

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

 Anatole France, in  Vice and Virtue

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

 Howard Aiken, in  Success and Failure

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

 Winston Churchill, in  Law and Politics

An excuse is the mark of a moral coward.

 Joseph Cimino, in  Altruism and Cynicism

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

 Abraham Lincoln, in  Vice and Virtue

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

 Philip K. Dick, in  Science and Religion

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

 Doug Horton, in  Success and Failure

It is perfectly true that the government is best which governs least. It is equally true that the government is best which provides most.

 Walter Lippmann, in  Law and Politics

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

 Winston Churchill, in  Wisdom and Ignorance