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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

P. J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World, in Altruism and Cynicism and Work and Recreation

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

Albert Einstein, in Life and Death

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own troubles.

Jesus Christ, (Matthew 6:34), in Wisdom and Ignorance

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts, in Life and Death

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

Peter F. Drucker, in Success and Failure

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

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Life is like a sewer -- what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Tom Lehrer, (from the album An Evening Wasted), in Life and Death

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Howard Aiken, in Success and Failure

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

Daniel Defoe, in Life and Death

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

David Dunham, in Work and Recreation

Let's have some new clichés.

Samuel Goldwyn, in Art and Literature

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Timothy Leary, in Men and Women

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

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Riot: A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in War and Peace

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Doug Horton, in Altruism and Cynicism

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Elbert Hubbard, in Success and Failure

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln, in Vice and Virtue

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Michel de Montaigne, in Science and Religion