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I wouldn't mind dying -- it's that business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.

R. Geis, in Life and Death

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Life and Death

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson, 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 eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Vice and Virtue

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

David Knight, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Too much of a good thing is just that.

Brian J. Dent, in Vice and Virtue

There's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter F. Drucker, in Success and Failure

Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.

Marian Erickson, in Success and Failure

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Elbert Hubbard, in Wisdom and Ignorance

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

James Carse, in Life and Death

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein, in Vice and Virtue

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

Louis Armstrong, in Vice and Virtue

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln, in Vice and Virtue

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

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Lately I've found that if it weren't for stereotypes, conversation would be much more difficult for the closed-minded.

Morgan Ivy, 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

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.

George Patton, in War and Peace and Work and Recreation

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

Philip K. Dick, in Science and Religion