The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.
- Louis Vermeil

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
- Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)

One reason I don’t drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
- Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
- William Dement, in Newsweek, 1959

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
- Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)

Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi (1917 - 1984)

Knowledge isn’t nearly as importance as it’s application.
- Ganz

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
- Frank A. Clark

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.
- Cynthia Ozick

Holding onto anger is like grasping onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else. You are the one who gets burned.
- Gautama Buddha

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women’s names.
- Elaine Gill

Vigorous writing is concise.
- William Strunk Jr., “The Elements of Style”, 1919

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
- Edna Ferber (1887 - 1968)

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)

Always listen to experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done and why. Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - 2008)

Never give advice unless asked.
- German Proverb

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
- Jim Horning

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don’t put off being happy until some future date.
- Dale Carnegie