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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

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

Elbert Hubbard, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

John Keats, in Success and Failure

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush, in War and Peace

When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Anatole France, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

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

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

Horace, in Work and Recreation

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Doug Horton, in Altruism and Cynicism

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda, in Success and Failure

The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Macaulay, History of England, I, in Vice and Virtue

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in War and Peace

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

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

Philip K. Dick, in Science and Religion

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

Albert Einstein, in Work and Recreation

All mankind loves a lover.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Love and Hate

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Wisdom and Ignorance

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Robert Byrne, in Vice and Virtue

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

James Carse, in Life and Death

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Lao Tsu, in Wealth and Poverty