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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Alva Edison, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

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

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Law and Politics

It gets late early out there.

Yogi Berra, (on Yankee Stadium in the fall), in Work and Recreation

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

Yogi Berra, in Success and Failure

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

Winston Churchill, in Law and Politics

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world.

Edmond Jules Goncourt, in Art and Literature

Leemans' Law: Junk expands to fill the space allotted.

Ron Leemans, in Work and Recreation

I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.

Jimmy Buffett, in Life and Death

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Gilbert K. Chesterton, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

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

Winston Churchill, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

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

Albert Einstein, in Life and Death

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Doug Larson, in Vice and Virtue

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in War and Peace

Never try to out-stubborn a cat.

Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long, in Success and Failure

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Law and Politics and Work and Recreation

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

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

David Broder, in Law and Politics