I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
—Pierre Corneille (French Playwright)
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
—Harlan Ellison (American Scifi Creator)
Carry laughter with you wherever you go.
—Hugh Sidey (American Journalist)
Your powers are dead or dedicated. If they are dedicated, they are alive with God and tingle with surprising power. If they are saved up, taken care of for their own ends, they are dead.
—E. Stanley Jones (American Missionary)
Ten years from now we’ll look back at this [challenge] and laugh, so why wait?
—Tony Robbins (American Self-Help Author)
A precedent embalms a principle.
—Benjamin Disraeli (British Head of State)
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
—Jerome (Greek Priest)
There’s a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can’t have and not want what is readily available to them.
—Robert Ringer (American Author)
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
—Al Franken (American Comedian, Politician)
Affluence means influence.
—Jack London (American Novelist)
Toil and pleasure, in their nature opposites, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.
—Livy (Titus Livius) (Roman Historian)
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn’t worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
—Ezra Pound (American Poet, Critic)
The sweet remembrance of the just shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.
—Nahum Tate (Irish Poet)
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
—Richard J. Needham (Canadian Columnist)
The advantage of time and place in all practical actions is half a victory; which being lost is irrecoverable.
—Francis Drake (English Explorer)
Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.
—George Chapman (English Poet, Playwright)