Hmm...think them over...

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
-- Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines"

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
-- Will Durant

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
-- Joan Klempner

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
-- David Starr Jordan

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
-- Edward Abbey

Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Ben Jonson

Never fight an inanimate object.
-- P. J. O'Rourke

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
-- Phyllis Diller

A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
-- Patricia Neal

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
-- Japanese Proverb

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
-- Lady Bird Johnson

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
-- Georges Clemenceau

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau

To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.
-- Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999

The unspoken word never does harm.
-- Kossuth

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
-- Ring Lardner, "How to Write Short Stories"

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
-- Jay Leno

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.
-- Rita Mae Brown

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Childhood"

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
-- Totie Fields

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
-- George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra (1901)

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
-- Alan Alda

You can cover a great deal of country in books.
-- Andrew Lang

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
-- Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
-- Dean Martin

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
-- A. Whitney Brown

I can resist anything but temptation.
-- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
-- Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.
-- Bill Lyon

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
-- G. K. Chesterton

We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
-- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
-- Max Frisch

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
-- Mark Twain

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
-- Henry Kissinger

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
-- Isaac Newton

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
-- Carl Sagan, Cosmos (Blues for a Red Planet)

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.
-- Kevin Kelly, in 'Wired'

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.
-- Julius Rosenwald

Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
-- Blake Clark

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.
-- Unknown

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
-- Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
-- Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
-- Chinese Proverb

It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
-- Michelangelo Buonarroti

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
-- Italian Proverb

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.
-- Peter McWilliams, Life 101

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright