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There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Michel de Montaigne, in Science and Religion

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Altruism and Cynicism

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Happiness and Misery

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

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert Humphrey, in Success and Failure

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

G. C. Lichtenberg, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Work and Recreation

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure

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

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln, in Vice and Virtue

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Marshall McLuhan, in Science and Religion

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

Marian Erickson, in Success and Failure

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.

Rudyard Kipling, in Men and Women

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

David Broder, in Law and Politics

He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Confucius, in Work and Recreation

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

Winston Churchill, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Altruism and Cynicism

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

Anatole France, in Success and Failure