"After all is said and done, more is said than done." Aesop
"Persuasion is often more effectual than force." Aesop
"United we stand, divided we fall." Aesop
"When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half." Gracie Allen
"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." Woody Allen
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once." Woody Allen
"The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do." Anonymous
"Love is not about who you live with. It's about who you can't live without." Anonymous
"A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out" Anonymous
"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell." Anonymous
"Good supervision is the art of getting average people to do superior work." Anonymous
"Wit is educated insolence." Aristotle
"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age." Aristotle
"One swallow does not make the spring." Aristotle
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." Aristotle
"We are what we repeatedly do." Aristotle
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." Aristotle
"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship." Sir Francis Bacon
"Knowledge is power." Sir Francis Bacon
"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." Sir Francis Bacon
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." Honore de Balzac
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." Orlando A. Battisa
"Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory." Ingrid Bergman
"Ability is nothing without opportunity." Napoleon Bonaparte
"Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever." Napoleon Bonaparte
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." Napoleon Bonaparte
"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand." Jacques Bossuet
"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn." Miguel de Cervantes
"There are people who have money and people who are rich." Coco Chanel
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." G.K. Chesterton
"Very few of us are what we seem." Agatha Christie
"If you are going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." Winston Churchill
"The price of greatness is responsibility." Winston Churchill
"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge." Winston Churchill 
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." Winston Churchill
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." Cicero
"I believe in luck; how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?" Jean Cocteau
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." Confucius
"It doesn't matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." Confucius
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Confucius
"Respect yourself and others will respect you." Confucius
"The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct." Confucius
"Silence is a true friend who never betrays." Confucius
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy." Marie Curie
"Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood." Marie Curie
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad." Salvador Dali
"Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it." Salvador Dali
"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." Marlene Dietrich
"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours." Benjamin Disraeli
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." Benjamin Disraeli
"Little things affect little minds." Benjamin Disraeli
"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." Benjamin Disraeli
"The secret of success is constancy of purpose." Benjamin Disraeli
"Success is the child of audacity." Benjamin Disraeli 
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Thomas Edison
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Edison
"I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun." Thomas Edison
"If there's a way to do it better ... find it." Thomas Edison
"There is no substitute for hard work." Thomas Edison
"Vision without execution is hallucination." Thomas Edison
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." Albert Einstein
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." Albert Einstein
"Creativity is contagious, pass it on." Albert Einstein
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." Albert Einstein
"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." Albert Einstein
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." Albert Einstein
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." Albert Einstein
"You don t understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother." Einstein 
"Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have." Albert Einstein
"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only way to have a friend is to be one." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side." Euripedes
"Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife." Euripedes
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business." Henry Ford
"Don't find fault, find a remedy." Henry Ford
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." Henry Ford
"It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot." Anatole France
"Nine-tenths of education is encouragement." Anatole France
"What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation." Anatole France
"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance." Benjamin Franklin 
"In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead." Benjamin Franklin
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." Benjamin Franklin
"Most fools think they are only ignorant." Benjamin Franklin
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." Benjamin Franklin
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud
"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." Mahatma Gandhi
"There is enough on earth for everybody s need, but not for everyone s greed.  Mahatma Gandhi
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever." Mahatma Gandhi
"Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction." Bill Gates 
"Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence." Charles de Gaulle
"Graveyards are full of indispensable men." Charles de Gaulle
"Formula for success : rise early, work hard, strike oil." J. Paul Getty
"Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children" J. Paul Getty
"If you can actually count your money then you are not a rich man." J. Paul Getty
"All the world over I will back the masses against the classes." William Gladstone
"Enjoy when you can and endure when you must." J.W. van Goethe
"Whatever you can do or dream, begin it." J.W. van Goethe
"A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days." J.W. van Goethe
"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change." Stephen Hawking
"Life would be tragic if it weren't funny." Stephen Hawking
"Work gives you meaning and purpose, and life is empty without it." Stephen Hawking
"Never confuse movement with action." Ernest Hemmingway
"There is no better friend than a book." Ernest Hemmingway
"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." Alfred Hitchcock
"Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow." Horace
"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age." Victor Hugo
"He who opens a school door, closes a prison." Victor Hugo
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey." Victor Hugo
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell." Aldous Huxley
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." Steve Jobs
"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed." Samuel Johnson
"Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks." Samuel Johnson
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise." Samuel Johnson
"When making your choices in life, do not forget to live." Samuel Johnson
"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life." Immanuel Kant
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." John F. Kennedy
"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all." John F. Kennedy
"The time is always right to do what is right." Martin Luther King 
"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves." Rudyard Kipling
"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty." Rudyard Kipling
"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade." Rudyard Kipling
"He travels the fastest who travels alone." Rudyard Kipling
"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvellously." Henry Kissinger
"Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans." John Lennon
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today." Abraham Lincoln
"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise." Somerset Maugham
"It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late." Somerset Maugham
"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." Moliere
"To the soul there is hardly anything more healing than friendship." Thomas Moore
"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy." Isaac Newton
"What doesn't kill you will make you stronger." Friedrich Nietzsche
"When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets." Friedrich Nietzsche
"We don't see things as they are; we see things as we are." Anais Nin
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." Anais Nin
"In the field of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind." Louis Pasteur
"Avoid popularity; it has many snares and no real benefit." William Penn
"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." William Penn
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." Pablo Picasso 
"The chief enemy of creativity is good taste." Pablo Picasso
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." Plutarch
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." Alexander Pope
"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must break your mirror." Francois Rabelais
"A statesman is a successful politician who is dead." Thomas Brackett Reed
"The customer is never wrong." Cesar Ritz
"Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life." F.W. Robertson
"Many people despise wealth but few know how to give it away." F. de la Rochefoucauld
"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice." F. de la Rochefoucauld
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt 
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Rules are not necessarily sacred; principles are." Franklin D. Roosevelt 
"I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made." Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." Theodore Roosevelt
"With self-discipline most anything is possible." Theodore Roosevelt
"If it can't be cured it must be endured." Salman Rushdie
"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." John Ruskin
"It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create." John Saxe
"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability." Sir Walter Scott
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Action is eloquence." William Shakespeare
"All that glitters is not gold." William Shakespeare
"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." William Shakespeare
"Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners." William Shakespeare
"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind." William Shakespeare
"The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty." George Bernard Shaw
"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children!" George Bernard Shaw
"Can a man who is warm understand one who is freezing?" Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Jonathan Swift
"May you live every day of your life." Jonathan Swift
"It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Alfred Lord Tennyson
"A good laugh is sunshine in a house." William Thackery
"I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end." Margaret Thatcher
"It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs." Margaret Thatcher
"Love is real only when a person can sacrifice himself for another." Leo Tolstoy
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." Mark Twain
"Be careful of reading health books. You may die of a misprint." Mark Twain
"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." Mark Twain
"Conscience is a man's compass." Vincent Van Gogh
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." Voltaire
"The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks." Voltaire
"Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one." Voltaire
"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything." Voltaire
"Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too." Voltaire 
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to get rid of it." Oscar Wilde
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." Oscar Wilde
"My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's." Oscar Wilde
"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes." Oscar Wilde
"Wisdom is knowing how little we know." Oscar Wilde
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all." Oscar Wilde
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past." Oscar Wilde
"True friends stab you in the front." Oscar Wilde
"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness." Tennessee Williams
"There are no strangers here, only friends you haven't yet met." William Butler Yeats 
"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity." Thor Heyerdahl
"What's another word for Thesaurus?" Steven Wright
"Any kid will run any errand for you, if you ask at bedtime." Red Skelton
"Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?" Robin Williams 
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." Dr. Seuss 
"TV is chewing gum for the eyes." Frank Lloyd Wright 
"If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer." Rob Corddry 
"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?" Lily Tomlin