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Life is like a sewer -- what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Tom Lehrer, (from the album An Evening Wasted), in Life and Death

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

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Alva Edison, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts, in Life and Death

Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.

Doug Horton, in Vice and Virtue

Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

Søren Kierkegaard, in Success and Failure

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Marshall McLuhan, in Science and Religion

Too much of a good thing is just that.

Brian J. Dent, in Vice and Virtue

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Edouard Herriot, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

Two things I cannot understand: myself and others.

Erkki J. Jyrkkanen, in Wisdom and Ignorance

In war, there is no substitute for victory.

Douglas MacArthur, in War and Peace

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Doug Horton, in Vice and Virtue

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

Thomas Jefferson, in Altruism and Cynicism

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

Thomas Jefferson, Writings, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Why be a man when you can be a success?

Bertolt Brecht, in 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

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion

I live for books.

Thomas Jefferson, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance