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Misc. Quotes From Various People Throughout The Ages

"Next week, there can't be any crisis. My schedule is already full."
-Henry Kissinger

"Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom."
-Cicero

"Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out."
-Michael Burke

"'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."
-Louisa May Alcott

"If you can carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
-Abraham Sutzkever

"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it."
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future."
-Paul Dickson

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
-Carl Jung

"Pessimism never won any battle."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Don't play for safety - it's the most dangerous thing in the world."
-Hugh Walpole

"Few wishes come true by themselves."
-June Smith

"One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it."
-French Proverb

"The higher you go, the more mistakes you're allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style."
-Fred Astaire

"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it."
-Franklin P. Jones

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
-Mark Twain

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer, but wish we didn't."
-Erica Jong

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
-Martic Luther King, Jr. "May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolution's."
-Joey Adams

"The sun will set without any assistance."
-The Talmud

"We must never accept finite disappointment, bet we must never lose infinite hope."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
-Robert Benchley

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."
-Tommy Lasorda

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
-Thomas Edison

"You're never a loser until you quit trying."
-Mike Ditka

"Smart is when you believe only half of what you hear. Brilliant is when you know which half to believe."
-Orben's Current Comedy

"Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten."
-B.F. Skinner

"The only insanity to which I will subject myself to is my own."
-Dirk Benedict

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