I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
Erma Bombeck

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.
Erma Bombeck

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
Henry David Thoreau

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
Henry David Thoreau

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
Henry David Thoreau

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Henry David Thoreau

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
Henry David Thoreau

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David Thoreau

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Henry David Thoreau

How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
Henry David Thoreau

When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
W. Clement Stone

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
W. Clement Stone

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
Mitch Hedberg

I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
Mitch Hedberg

Spaghetti... I can't eat spaghetti, there's too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1000 of something is too many. I'll have 1000 pieces of noodles.
Mitch Hedberg

It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?
Mitch Hedberg

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
Bob Dylan

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Lao Tzu

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao Tzu