I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read.

Oscar Wilde

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.

W.C. Fields

Caution is not cowardice; even the ants march armed.

Ugandan proverb

The difference between the right word and almost the right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Mark Twain

Where bees are there is honey.

English proverb

He who does nothing makes no mistakes.

Italian proverb

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

No man is wise enough by himself.

Plautus

We have to believe in free will - we have no choice.

Isaac Bashevitch Singer

The century is ending, but every individual starts from the beginning.

Goethe

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.

Jerome K. Jerome

Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Napoleon

By words the mind is winged.

Aristophanes

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire

When one door shuts, a hundred open.

Spanish proverb

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Aristotle

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Aesop

All are not cooks who carry long knives.

Dutch proverb

They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

Horace

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The greedy man stores all but friendship.

Irish proverb

He who hesitates is a damn fool.

Mae West

Honesty is the important thing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Groucho Marx

True words are not always pretty; pretty words are not always true.

Japanese proverb

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw

Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on far too long.

Ogden Nash

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Another victory like that and we are done for.

Pyrrhus

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

Kenyan proverb

A pessimist is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for the coffin.

H.L. Mencken

After all, there is but one race - humanity.

George Moore

The codfish lays ten thousand eggs, the homely hen lays one. The codfish never cackles to tell you what she's done. And so we scorn the codfish, while the humble hen we prize, which only goes to show you that it pays to advertise.

Anonymous

If a little money does not go out, great money will not come in.

Chinese proverb