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The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli, in Success and Failure

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll, in Altruism and Cynicism

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

Ignorance does not necesarilly mean one has a lack of wisdom, for a most ignorant person can be one with much wisdom. It's "live and learn" that creates wisdom.

Austin Holmes, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I hate quotations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Albert Einstein, in 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

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Doug Horton, in 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

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Albert Camus, in Work and Recreation

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is its own troubles.

Jesus Christ, (Matthew 6:34), in Wisdom and Ignorance

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

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

Christopher Morley, in Science and Religion

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

Doug Horton, in Vice and Virtue

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

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

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Lao Tsu, in Wealth and Poverty

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Jules de Gaultier, in Wisdom and Ignorance

To "be" means to be related.

Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity, 1933 (4th ed., 1958), in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas Alva Edison, in Work and Recreation