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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

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Life and Death

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure

It is perfectly true that the government is best which governs least. It is equally true that the government is best which provides most.

Walter Lippmann, in Law and Politics

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

Mahatma Gandhi, in Vice and Virtue

An expert is someone who is one page ahead of you in the manual.

David Knight, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

Most of life is choices, and the rest is pure dumb luck.

Marian Erickson, in Success and Failure

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

Elbert Hubbard, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Bellamy Brooks, in Altruism and Cynicism

I don't know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein, in War and Peace

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, 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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Abraham Lincoln, in Vice and Virtue

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

Albert Camus, in Work and Recreation

Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Lately I've found that if it weren't for stereotypes, conversation would be much more difficult for the closed-minded.

Morgan Ivy, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

P. J. O'Rourke, in Art and Literature

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.

George Patton, in War and Peace and Work and Recreation

War is not nice.

Barbara Bush, in War and Peace