“Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.” — Jean Giraudoux
“We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.” — Jim Rohn
“You don’t have to enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.” — Annie Leibovitz
“Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.” — Mooji
“When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” — William James
“An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today.” — Dr. Laurence J. Peter
“Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.” — Virgil
“Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.” — Charles Caleb Colton
“One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.” — Golda Meir
“What can you say when your husband says: ‘You can’t expect me to remember your birthday, when you never look any older?’” — Toni Anderson
“Everyone has demons. What matters is how you tame them.” — Unknown
“The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind’s eye.” — Shana Alexander
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” — Joshua Graham
“He’d steal a hot stove and come back for the smoke.” — Wilson Mizner
“Rumor grows as it goes.” — Virgil
“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.” — Steve Jobs
“One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.” — Jean Giraudoux
“Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.” — P. J. O’Rourke
“Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other. — Walter Lippmann
“As the Island of Knowledge grows, so do the shores of our ignorance—the boundary between the known and unknown.” — Marcelo Gleiser
“How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.” — William Rotsler
“They stayed away in droves.” — Samuel Goldwyn, film producer
“Your illusions are part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.” — William Faulkner
“As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.” — Plato
“Politics is the art of marshaling hatreds.” — Unknown
“Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.” — Oliver Herford
“A person is not old as long as they are seeking something. [ed]” — Jean Rostand
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” — Stephen Covey
“Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual.” — Rune Leknes
“We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.” — William Arthur Ward
“How we walk with the broken speaks louder than how we sit with the great.” — Bill Bennot
“The only stable state is the one in which all people are equal before the law.[ed]” — Aristotle
“Master your instrument, master the music, and then forget all that crap and just play.” — Charlie Parker
“Money still talks these days… trouble is, you have to increase the volume alot!” — Alfred E. Neuman
“Laws, like the spider’s webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free.” — Danish Proverb
“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.” — Madame Marie du Deffand
“Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.” — Helen Hunt Jackson
“A boy doesn’t have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn’t like pie when he sees there isn’t enough to go around.” — Edgar Watson Howe