The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. (Oscar Wilde)

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 lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. (Friedrich von Schiller)

Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. (Saint Augustine)

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. (Voltaire)

There are no facts, only interpretations. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. (H. G. Wells)

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools.Let’s start with typewriters. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools.Let’s start with typewriters. (Frank Lloyd Wright)

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time. (Vince Lombardi)

I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. (E. E. Cummings)

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. (definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy)

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. (Albert Giacometti (sculptor))

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. (Sir Winston Churchill)

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson)

It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. (Carl Sagan)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. (Albert Einstein)

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King Jr.)

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. (Robert Pirsig)

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. (Sir Winston Churchill)

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. (Samuel Johnson)

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. (Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930))

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. (Anais Nin)

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

There’s a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I’m not there yet. (Randy Pausch)

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

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)

We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in.Some of us just go one god further. (Richard Dawkins)

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (Emile Zola)

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. (Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower)

I begin by taking.I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. (Frederick (II) the Great)

The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it. (George Bernard Shaw)

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. (Soren Aabye Kierkegaard)

Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer. (Saint Thomas Moore)

We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in.Some of us just go one god further. (Richard Dawkins)

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. (Thomas Alva Edison)

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

Political correctness is tyranny with manners. (Charlton Heston)

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde)

He who has a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. (Martin Luther King Jr.)