Never explain–your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. -Elbert Hubbard
It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem. -Malcolm Forbes
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. -Abba Eban
If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it. -Emerson Pugh
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. -Alexander Pope
You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light. -Vicomte de Chateaubriand
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite. -John Kenneth Galbraith
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing. -Edith Nesbitt
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. -Mahatma Gandhi
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. -Leonardo da Vinci
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. -Robert Louis Stevenson
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life. -John Burroughs, naturalist and writer (1837-1921)
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. -Mark Twain
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. -Charles de Montesquieu
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -Elbert Hubbard
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on. -William S. Burroughs
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. -Hubert H. Humphrey
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty. -Jean Jacques Rousseau
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. -Oscar Wilde
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. -Aldous Huxley
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too. -John Kenneth Galbraith
Nobody believes the official spokesman… but everybody trusts an unidentified source. -Ron Nesen
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. -unknown
Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even. -Horace
Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. -Socrates
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. -Saint Jerome
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