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It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

Rami Belson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

Thomas Alva Edison, in Work and Recreation

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Marshall McLuhan, in Science and Religion

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

William Blake, in Work and Recreation

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

Hitch your wagon to a star.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure

I think it would be a good idea.

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

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young.

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

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

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination

Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon, XCIV, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

When skunks duel, wind direction is everything.

Michael A. Loduha, (on environmental factors in legal cases vs. the attorneys' skills; from a lecture series), in Law and Politics

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

Frederick the Great, in Law and Politics

Burning desire is the eternal flame.

Doug Horton, in Love and Hate

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.

Robert Frost, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

I hope life isn't a joke, because I don't get it.

Jack Handey, in Life and Death

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

John Keats, in Success and Failure

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Robert Frost, in Wealth and Poverty

Desperation is like stealing from the mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure