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Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.

Thomas Alva Edison, in Work and Recreation

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas Alva Edison, in Work and Recreation

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Frederick the Great, in Law and Politics

I think it would be a good idea.

Mahatma Gandhi, (when asked what he thought of Western civilization), in Law and Politics

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own troubles.

Jesus Christ, (Matthew 6:34), in Wisdom and Ignorance

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Robert F. Kennedy, in Success and Failure

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett, in War and Peace and Wisdom and Ignorance

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Robert Orben, in Law and Politics

Whenever anyone says anything he is indulging in theories.

Alfred Korzybski, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Christopher Morley, in Science and Religion

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush, in War and Peace

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Gian Vincenzo Gravina, in Altruism and Cynicism

I've never met a healthy person who worried much about his health or a good person who worried much about his soul.

Haldane, in Health and Disease and Vice and Virtue

An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.

David Knight, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I prefer the most unjust peace to the most righteous war.

Cicero, in War and Peace

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

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

Winston Churchill, in Law and Politics

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier, in Wisdom and Ignorance

He who spends his time reading aphorisms of another to have one of his own, has no time or brains to have any of his own.

M. Bernheisel, in Wisdom and Ignorance