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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

Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

Søren Kierkegaard, in Success and Failure

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

Rudyard Kipling, in Men and Women and Vice and Virtue

I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty -- I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind.

Friedrich Nietzsche, in Science and Religion

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Bellamy Brooks, in Altruism and Cynicism

The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon, in Success and Failure

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus, in Work and Recreation

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Jean Giraudoux, in Success and Failure

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Doug Horton, in Altruism and Cynicism

Yield to temptation -- it may not pass your way again.

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (Lazarus Long), in Vice and Virtue

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.

George Patton, in War and Peace and Work and Recreation

Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.

Marva Collins, in Vice and Virtue

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein, in Work and Recreation

Wise men don't need advice; fools don't take it.

Benjamin Franklin, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

David Lloyd George, in Success and Failure

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

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

To generalize is to be an idiot.

William Blake, in Science and Religion

I think, therefore I am.

René Descartes, in Science and Religion