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

John Brown, in Vice and Virtue

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

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

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

Elbert Hubbard, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

James Carse, in Life and Death

Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.

Daniel Defoe, in Life and Death

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein, in Men and Women

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

Lillian Hellman, in Altruism and Cynicism

It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.

Sherrill Brown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

Robert Burton, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

Anatole France, in Vice and Virtue

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Hoffer, in Love and Hate

If you have a bowl of apples and you eat the best ones first, then you have only the best ones left.

Shelly Horton, in Success and Failure

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

Russell Banks, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

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

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

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character. The only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints.

Will Durant, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I hate quotations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I improve on misquotation.

Cary Grant, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.

George Orwell, 1984, in Happiness and Misery

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Frank Capra, in Wisdom and Ignorance