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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Wisdom and beauty form a very rare combination

Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon, XCIV, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Buddha, (last words), in Life and Death

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

René Char, in Success and Failure

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli, in Success and Failure

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Life and Death

Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.

Stephen Hawking, in Science and Religion

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

James Carse, in Life and Death

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

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Stanley Garn, in Wisdom and Ignorance

A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

Daniel Boorstin, in Success and Failure

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Irving Kristol, in Law and Politics

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

William Blake, in Work and Recreation

It's kinda fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney, in Success and Failure

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll, in Altruism and Cynicism

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

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

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

Jimmy Buffett, in Life and Death

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

Phyllis Diller, in Life and Death

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Simon Cameron, in Altruism and Cynicism and Law and Politics

Women make love for love, men make love for lust.

Derrick Harge, in Love and Hate and Men and Women