Quotes without Commentary

• In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. - --Bill Vaughan
• I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. - --Mark Twain
• I took a course in speed reading and was able to read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It's about Russia. - --Woody Allen
• The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge. - --Erich Fromm
• Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. - --Mary Kay Ash
• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - --Will Rogers
• It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground. - --James H. Boren
• The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force. - --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• The wolf in sheep's clothing is a fitting emblem of the hypocrite. Every virtuous man would rather meet an open foe than a pretended friend who is a traitor at heart. - --H.F. Kletzing
• Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. - --Harry Emerson Fosdick
• America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. - --Arnold Toynbee
• Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again. - --Francis Rodman
• It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. - --Winston Churchill
• But if a man happens to find himself ... he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life. - --James Michener
• He is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else. - --Don Marquis
• Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. - --Seneca ( B.C - A.D.)
• The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. - --H.T. Leslie
• I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth. - --Chico Marx
• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - --George Santayana
• We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are not the best informed as to the events of the last sixty centuries. - --Will and Ariel Durant