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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli, 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

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 hate quotations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

Albert Einstein, in Work and Recreation

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.

Abraham Lincoln, in Law and Politics

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Dean Martin, in Vice and Virtue

Less than fifteen percent of the people do any original thinking on any subject... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

Luther Burbank, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus, in Work and Recreation

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

John A. Locke, in Science and Religion

Bad policies, stupid policies, gutless policies have real consequences.

Molly Ivins, in Law and Politics

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Robert Orben, in Law and Politics

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

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas Alva Edison, in Work and Recreation

The great question -- which I have not been able to answer -- is, "What does a woman want?"

Sigmund Freud, in Men and Women

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Samuel Butler, in Altruism and Cynicism

I think, therefore I am.

René Descartes, in Science and Religion

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Jenny Holzer, in Wisdom and Ignorance