We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Ted Morgan

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Laurence J. Peter

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
Samuel Goldwyn

I expect to pass through this world but once; and any good thing therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now: let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Anonymous (1420) (Contributed by John)

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
Lillian Hellman

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

There are three kinds of men. Some learn by reading. A few learn by observation. And the rest of them have to pee on the electric fence to learn for themselves.
Roy Rogers

I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody Allen

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
Salvador Dali

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Jean Giraudoux

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
Mark Twain

In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
Tao Te Ching

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
John Witherspoon

We have no Olympic medals for jumping to conclusions, but we're very good at it.
Lidya Livingston

That which can be learned is not worth teaching.
Tao

I'm not young enough to know everything.
Sir James Matthew Barrie

People's minds are changed by observation, and not through argument.
Will Rogers

The two things we never have enough of - time and space - are infinite.
Connie Thomson

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
Thomas Szasz

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
John Andrew Holmes

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is.
Chuck Reid

Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln, who had no middle name and who described himself as "in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected"

Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides.
Rita Mae Brown, who also said, "If you don't like my book, write your own", which I think is very well put. I have never heard of her before, but she seems interesting. I'm going to have to learn more about her.

What's another word for Thesaurus?
Steven Wright, probably one of the most-quoted people on the internet (look him up on Google)

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese Proverb, and you should keep an eye on this country, as they do come up with a few good ones now and then

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop, from "The Dog and the Shadow"

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
Muhammad Ali, who floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant, who according to Monty Python, was a real pissant who was very rarely stable (and they'd know!)

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner, who fathered Rob Reiner who directed one of my favourite movies, "The Princess Bride"

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Douglas Adams, who wrote one of my favourite series, "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"