"Silence is safer than speech."

Epictetus "Encheiridion"

Oration and Silence

"Taxpayer: A government worker with no vacation, no sick leave and no holidays."

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Authority, Government

Richness and Money

"The road to hell is paved with adverbs."

Stephen King

Good and Evil

Various

"The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it."

Patrick Young

Nature and Animals

Trust

"The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity."

George Grosz "A Small Yes and a Big No"

Human

Peace and War

"The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country."

Alfred Thompson, Baron Denning

Intellect, Judgement

Politics and Diplomacy

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

Thomas Carlyle "Heroes and Hero-Worship"

Defeates and Mistakes

"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."

Salman Rushdie "Midnight's Children"

Dreams and Desires

Reality and Imagination

"It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad."

Jimmy Buffett "Tales Form Margaritaville"

Life and Death

"Money certainly brings out the best in you, doesn't it?"

Mark Hanna "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman"

Human

Richness and Money

"Optimism is the content of small men in high places."

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Optimism and Hope

"The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English."

Henry Louis Mencken

History and Nations

"A woman is a hunter without a forest."

Christina Stead

Woman and Man

"Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Truth and Falsity

"Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself."

Woodrow T. Wilson

Wisdom and Stupidity

Youth and Age

"He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise."

Voltaire

Justice

Wisdom and Stupidity

"Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting."

Brian Tracy

Good and Evil

Memory

"The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own."

Willa Cather "The Professor's House"

Human

Various

"Some people have no respect for age unless it's bottled."

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Health and Alcohol

Youth and Age

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music."

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Art and Culture

Life and Death

"The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him."

Oscar Wilde

Life and Death

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

Anais Nin

Friendship and Hostility

"The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile."

Woodrow T. Wilson "Wit and Wisdom of Woodrow Wilson"

Richness and Money

"A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears."

Gertrude Stein

Art and Culture

"Solitude is the playfield of Satan."

Vladimir Nabokov "Pale Fire"

Family and Loneliness

Good and Evil

"Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves."

Mahatma Gandhi

Education

God and Religion

"What matters in art is not thinking but making."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Italian Journey"

Art and Culture

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

Isaac Asimov

Life and Death

"Sex is the thing that takes the least time and causes the most trouble."

John Barrymore

Manners and Ethics

Various

"A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year."

Polish Proverbs

Various

"A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible."

P.J. O`Rourke

Richness and Money

Various

"Some people look intelligent when they wear glasses, but it's only an optical illusion."

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Intellect, Judgement

Reality and Imagination

"Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."

Anita Brookner

God and Religion

Manners and Ethics

"I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Intellect, Judgement

"Love the sinner and hate the sin."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Love

Sin and Conscience

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

St. Augustine of Hippo

God and Religion

Work and Laziness

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. "

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Art and Culture

"I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Health and Alcohol

Nature and Animals

"Men make women happy who are already happy."

Lidia Jasinska

Happiness

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."

Pablo Picasso

Art and Culture

"A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living."

Charles Swindoll

Family and Loneliness

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."

Douglas Adams

Time and Passing

"No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."

Ingmar Bergman

Art and Culture

Sin and Conscience

"Nature does nothing uselessly."

Aristotle "Politics"

Nature and Animals

"Music is the space between the notes."

Claude Debussy

Art and Culture

"Drunkenness [...] is temporary suicide."

Bertrand Russell "The Conquest of Happiness"

Health and Alcohol

"Sure i'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day."

Lillian Carter

Youth and Age

"To give a man full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament."

John Locke

God and Religion

Manners and Ethics