--Henry Van Dyke

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. 

--Alistair Cooke

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. 

--Mark Twain, (1835-1910)

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god. 

--Friedrich Nietzsche

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process. 

--John F. Kennedy

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly. 

--Mark Twain, (1835-1910)

The only thing one can do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. 

--Oscar Wilde

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition. 

--Indira Gandhi

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

--H. L. Mencken

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.

--Isaac Asimov

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

--Omar N. Bradley

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little kinder." 

-Aldous Huxley, (1894-1963)

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

--Immanuel Kant

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

--Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910)

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. 

--Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826)

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

--Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University,1929

Time is nature's way of making sure everything doesn't happen at once.

--Anonymous

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

--Voltaire

He who laughs, lasts.

--Mary Pettibone Poole

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. 

--Thomas Carlyle

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

--Joseph Addison, (1672-1719)

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

--H. Berlioz

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is. 

--Desiderius Erasmus