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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Alva Edison, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

Anatole France, in Vice and Virtue

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Doug Horton, in Altruism and Cynicism

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

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

Jean Giraudoux, in Success and Failure

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Gilbert Highet, in Art and Literature

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

John Brown, in Vice and Virtue

Burning desire is the eternal flame.

Doug Horton, in Love and Hate

I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.

Louis Armstrong, in Vice and Virtue

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

Sandra Carey, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli, in Success and Failure

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

When angry, count to ten before you speak; when very angry, a hundred.

Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in Wisdom and Ignorance

If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds.

Krystal Ann Kraus, in Men and Women

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

Yogi Berra, in Success and Failure

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion

To accomplish great things, you must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe.

Anatole France, in Success and Failure

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Lillian Hellman, in Altruism and Cynicism

Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.

Doug Horton, in Vice and Virtue