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Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Jenny Holzer, in Wisdom and Ignorance

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

Hermione Gingold, in Food and Drink

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

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Thomas Jefferson, in Altruism and Cynicism

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

Samuel Johnson, in Art and Literature

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

Anatole France, in Wisdom and Ignorance

We must become the change we want to see.

Mahatma Gandhi, 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

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

Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts, in Life and Death

An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Vice and Virtue

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.

George Patton, in War and Peace and Work and Recreation

To generalize is to be an idiot.

William Blake, in Science and Religion

Ignorance does not necesarilly mean one has a lack of wisdom, for a most ignorant person can be one with much wisdom. It's "live and learn" that creates wisdom.

Austin Holmes, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Elbert Hubbard, in Success and Failure

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

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

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

Even thinking is participation.

Lassi Kämäri, in Wisdom and Ignorance

It gets late early out there.

Yogi Berra, (on Yankee Stadium in the fall), in Work and Recreation