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

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

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

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli, in Science and Religion

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

Dean Martin, in Vice and Virtue

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop, in Happiness and Misery and Success and Failure

It's kinda fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney, in Success and Failure

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Gian Vincenzo Gravina, in Altruism and Cynicism

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce, in Success and Failure

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillor, in Vice and Virtue

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

Robert Orben, in Law and Politics

An excuse is the mark of a moral coward.

Joseph Cimino, in Altruism and Cynicism

He who spends his time reading aphorisms of another to have one of his own, has no time or brains to have any of his own.

M. Bernheisel, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Altruism and Cynicism

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

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure

Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

William Blake, in Work and Recreation

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and 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