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All mankind loves a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Love and Hate

All these nervous breakdowns are driving me crazy.

Lee Hawkins, in Health and Disease

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

Jimmy Buffett, in Life and Death

It's kinda fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney, in Success and Failure

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

Robert F. Kennedy, in Success and Failure

Too much of a good thing is just that.

Brian J. Dent, in Vice and Virtue

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Edouard Herriot, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Doug Horton, in Vice and Virtue

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

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

David Knight, in Wisdom and Ignorance

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Christian Nevell Bovee, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.

Robert Harbison, in Law and Politics

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, in Science and Religion

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht, in Success and Failure

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

Jack Handey, in Life and Death

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Nicholas Murray Butler, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Stephen Vincent Benét, in Life and Death

Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.

Daniel Defoe, in Life and Death

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Happiness and Misery