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- Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.
- John Wayne (1907 - 1979), Advice on acting
- Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.
- Lillian Carter, in her 80s
- All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Social Relations"
- The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
- Bret Harte (1836 - 1902)
- The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
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