A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
—Fred Allen (American Humorist)
He who is aware of his folly is wise.
—Yiddish Proverb
Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don’t make.
—Bill Veeck (American Sportsperson)
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.
—Ben Stein (American Lawyer)
You will get all you want in life, if you help enough other people get what they want.
—Zig Ziglar (American Author)
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!
—George W. Crane (American Psychologist)
Love has a way of finding you when you stop seeking it and start being it.
—Mastin Kipp
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
—Clarence Darrow (American Lawyer)
For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
—Viktor Frankl (Austrian Physician)
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
—Dorothy L. Sayers (British Novelist)
What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.
—Terence (Ancient Roman Playwright)
A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
—John Mason Brown (American Columnist)
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
—Martin Amis (American Novelist)
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
—Nelson Mandela (South African Political leader)
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
—Richard Feynman (American Physicist)
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
—Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese Buddhist Religious Leader)
In all your gettings, get wisdom.
—Anonymous
To be a critic is easier than to be an author.
—Hebrew Proverb
Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
—Vince Lombardi (American Sportsperson)