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

Søren Kierkegaard, in Success and Failure

I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.

Albert Einstein, in Life and Death

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Mary Howitt, in Happiness and Misery

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

Sherrill Brown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Christopher Morley, in Science and Religion

Wise men don't need advice; fools don't take it.

Benjamin Franklin, in Wisdom and Ignorance

If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Stanley Garn, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure

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

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

Robert Frost, in Wealth and Poverty

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

Gian Vincenzo Gravina, in Altruism and Cynicism

A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Frederick the Great, in Law and Politics

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 was involuntary. They sank my boat.

John F. Kennedy, (comment when asked about his heroism), in War and Peace

It's not over until it's over.

Yogi Berra, in Success and Failure

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

Benjamin Disraeli, in Science and Religion

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

David Dunham, in Work and Recreation

It is impossible to love and be wise.

Francis Bacon, in Love and Hate