God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Saint Augustine

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
John Wayne

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.
Rita Rudner

My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.
Rita Rudner

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Earl Nightingale

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George Orwell

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George Orwell

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Marcus Aurelius

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
Marcus Aurelius

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Marcus Aurelius

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Donald Trump

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
Robert Kennedy

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.
Timothy Leary

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
T. S. Eliot

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
Douglas MacArthur

The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?
P. J. O'Rourke

After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
P. J. O'Rourke

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
P. J. O'Rourke