"Most Americans favor the death penalty. I favor the death penalty for most Americans." -Peter J. Drumsta"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally." -W.C. Fields
"I have not 'failed,' I have merely found ten thousand ways that do not work." -Thomas Edison
"Glory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." -Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." -Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." -Albert Einstein
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -Thomas Jefferson
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." -Martin Luther King Jr.
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -Paul Erdos
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." -George Bernard Shaw
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." -Napoleon Bonaparte
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." -H.G. Wells
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must" -Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"If you are going through hell, keep going." -Sir Winston Churchill
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." -Frank Lloyd Wright
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." -Oscar Wilde
"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them." -Ian L. Fleming
"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." -George Washington Carver
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." -Aldous Huxley
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." -Walt Disney
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." -James Branch Cabell
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -Umberto Eco
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down." -Jimmy Durante
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -Arthur Schopenhauer
"An eye for an eye and everyone is blind." -Mahatma Gandhi
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." -Isaac Asimov
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." -Carl Sagan
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." -G.B. Burgin
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." -Will Durant
"God, please save me from your followers!" -Bumper Sticker
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." -Mel Brooks
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity" -Albert Einstein
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" -Niels Bohr
"Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four." -Katherine Hepburn
"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't." -Jules Renard
"How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?" -Woody Allen
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever." -Woody Allen
"To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition." -Woody Allen
"Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored." -George Saunders (last words)
"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion." -C.P. Snow
"If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever." -Woody Allen
"Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime." -G. Gordon Liddy
"You can't say that civilizations don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way." -Will Rogers
"Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed." -Don Wood
"Observe everything. Communicate well. Draw, draw, draw." -Frank Thomas (Disney animator, when asked to give advice to children.)
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when he grows up." -Pablo Picasso
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." -H.L. Mencken
"Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." -Howard Scott
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." -George Bernard Shaw