No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather. (Michael Pritchard)
I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage. (Charles De Secondat)
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. (Saki)
[Long hair] is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket. (Marge Piercy)
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration. (Confucius)
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would cre (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are. (Niccolo Machiavelli)
We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block. (John Kerry)
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. (H. L. Mencken)