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- I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
- Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
- In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
- She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
- The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
- Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966), Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
- It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.
- Anonymous, Also used in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
- Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
- Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977
- What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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